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HRM’s Public Art Policy defines public art as being permanent, semi-permanent, or temporary works of art in any media or combination of media that have been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited or staged in the public realm and accessible to all. Pieces of public art will be created or managed by a professional artist and will be acquired through artist commissions, donations or artist-community collaborations.
For more information on Public Art:
Jamie MacLellan
Public Art Facilitator
maclelaj@halifax.ca
490-1039
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"North is Freedom" - HRM's most recent piece of Public Art, Halifax North Memorial Public Library. Sculpture: Doug Bamford/Stephen Braithwaite. |
Periodically, HRM will issue Calls to Artists to provide artwork in the public realm. These calls will be take various forms.
In some, artists will be asked to apply via a Call for Credentials or through an Expression of Interest to participate in a registry of artists interested in contributing to HRM’s public art program in a general sense.
In other cases, where the artwork being commissioned is intended to be permanent, artists will be invited to apply to specific competitions via a Request for Proposals (RFP) process.
In every instance, HRM’s Public Art Facilitator will work with interested artists to help them understand the particular requirements of the given call
HRM Cultural Affairs has recently completed an inventory of its Outdoor Public Art Collection and is in the process of completing an inventory of its Indoor Collection. Information related to this inventory is currently accessible through the Public Art Facilitator.
HRM holds a collection of outdoor sculpture, murals, plaques and commemorative objects as well as a collection of paintings, prints, photographs housed throughout community museums, HRM buildings and in storage. This collection has been divided into permanently sited works of art and temporary exhibits or installations.
- Permanent Works: Include works of free-standing public sculpture (e.g. monuments) situated in the public realm as well as fine art objects (e.g. paintings) and artifacts housed in HRM’s Indoor Collection.
- Temporary Exhibits: Are installations of artworks that are durational, or which are meant to be sited or displayed for a fixed period of time. “Temporary” in this context applies to publicly accessible installations that last anywhere from a single day to multiple years.
Click on images below to enlarge and view a selection of public art in HRM:
The Kiss
Sculptor Andy Francis Cutti created
"The Kiss" as one of three statues
crafted from a granite staircase that was
removed from a renovated building
on Barrington Street.
The statue, located in front of the YMCA on South Park Street, Halifax, is an abstract image of a couple embracing.
Winston Churchill
The bronze Winston Churchill statute, weighing 1.5 tons and standing ten feet high, is found on the front lawn of the Halifax Public Library branch on Spring Garden Road, Halifax. Oscar Nemon sculpted this statue, honouring Sir Winston Churchill, former Second World War Prime Minister of Great Britain.
The statue was unveiled on January 20, 1980, and the figure represents the image of Churchill taken in a photograph while walking in Halifax.
Sailor
Commissioned by the Atlantic Chief and Petty Officers’ Association, "Sailor" honours the many thousands of sailors who passed through the port of Halifax.
The 2.5 ton bronze statue figure's uniform is modelled after that worn by Canadian sailors
from the Second World War until the 1960's
Canadian Forces unification.
"Sailor" is located near the corner of Lower Water
and Sackville Streets, Halifax.
The Wave
"The Wave", created by sculptor Donna Hiebert is located on the Halifax waterfront, in Sackville Landing at the base of Sackville Street.
"The Wave" was commissioned by the Halifax Waterfront Development Corporation in 1988.
The ferro-cement sculpture is painted bluish-green, and represents the shape of an ocean wave standing twelve feet high, with a diameter of thirty feet.
Celtic Cross
Unveiled, March 17, 1999, by the Charitable
Irish Society, the black polished granite
Celtic Cross is dedicated to the original
Irish settlers of 1749 and to the contributions
of the Irish community to Halifax.
The twelve foot high statue is located
near the corners of Lower Water and
George Streets and Bedford Row, Halifax.
The Public Art Policy was adopted by Regional Council in September of 2008. It addresses a peer-jury process and other considerations of the commissioning process. It also institutes a Percent-for-Public Art Policy for Private and Municipal Development projects, criteria around maintenance of public art objects and considerations related to the acceptance of gifts.
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