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On Thursday, May 4th we are unveiling the 5th Annual Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition! < All Events 2023 Downtown Sculpture Exhibition - Public Unveiling On Thursday, May 4th we are unveiling the 5th Annual Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition! Thursday, May 4, 2023 Thursday, May 4, 2023 Address: Haliburton, ON, Canada Facebook Event Page On Thursday, May 4th we are unveiling the 5th Annual Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition! Come and join our lead curator, Jim Blake and the 7 artists featured in the Exhibition as they speak to each of their works: Stop 1: Eric Tardif, "Grow Together" Stop 2: Kristi Chen, "Orange Bloom" Stop 3: Mark Puigmarti, "Aerial" Stop 4: Carolanne MacLean, "Innocence" Stop 5: Elise Muller, "Abstract 7" Stop 6: Kim Collins, "Retrieving Courage" Stop 7: Szonja Vucsetics, "Night" This walking tour will begin at the Rail's End Gallery at 2:00 PM, rain or shine. Thank you to all of our Lead Sponsors: ACM Designs The O'Mara Group Thank you to our Funders and Partners: HCDC Haliburton Sculpture Forest Haliburton BIA Thank you to all our Site Sponsors: Dysart et al - Cultural Resources Committee Rails End Gallery and Arts Centre Rexall Pharmacy - Haliburton Wind in the Willows Spa & Boutique Haliburton County Echo Haliburton Framing and Photo Glecoff's Family Store Foodland - Haliburton CENTURY 21 Granite Realty Group Emmerson Lumber Russell Red Records Canoe FM 100.9 Community Radio Station Corner Gallery Thank you to all our Site Hosts: Rails End Gallery and Arts Centre Municipality of Dysart et al Michael Easton Enterprises Glecoff’s Family Store Foodland – Haliburton Bank of Montreal Corner Gallery Photo Gallery: < Previous Next >

2023 < All Sculptures 2023 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition Contact Artist for Pricing Abstract 7 Elise Muller Abstract 7 Carrara Marble Abstract #7 is carved from Carrara Marble and depicts a continuous line that is twisted and intertwined. There is no beginning and no end to this sculpture, much like a Mobius strip. This is the seventh abstract sculpture that I have completed inspired by the endless variations on that theme. This sculpture was in front of the Elora Centre for the Arts last year as part of the Elora Sculpture Project. Elise Muller Elise Muller’s granite sculpture "Attunement" won the 2018/19 Canadian Sculpture Competition at Kingsbrae Garden in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. Elise has been sculpting stone since 2001 when she took her first of many courses at Haliburton School of Art + Design. Elise carves stylized figures in a variety of stone like limestone, granite, and marble. She enjoys the whole process of stone sculpting from picking the stone to chiseling, to seeing the figures emerge, to filing, to polishing. In 2016 Elise carved the limestone sculpture of a family that is in front of the Dorset Community Health Hub. Three of her sculptures have been on public display in Elora and Fergus as part of the Elora Sculpture Project from 2016-2018. Elise was part of the Haliburton Downtown Sculpture Exhibition in 2019 with her limestone “Dancers” and pleased to return in 2023 with “Abstract #7 ”. Elise also teaches stone carving and is a part time faculty member of HSAD. Elise lives near Dorset and shares Stone Tree Studio with her partner, furniture maker Cirvan Hamilton. Artist Contact Information Phone: 705-783-0547 Website : www.stonetreestudio.ca Email : info@stonetreestudio.ca Instagram: @ stonefigures

Found objects and upcycling are at the heart of this moose-shaped sculpture created by Leo Sepa. Moose Scraps Leo Sepa Materials: Assemblage of retired vintage farm equipment and other hardware Description: Found metal objects formed into the shape of the moose Height: 2 metres, length 2.5 metres Installation Date: June, 2001 Number on Map: 10 Go to Gallery About the Work: Found objects are at the heart of this sculpture, aptly titled "Moose Scraps", an assemblage of retired vintage farm equipment and other hardware, formed into the shape of one of Canada's largest mammals, the moose. Like many of Leo’s sculptures, the 2.5 meter piece exudes wit and charm. < Back to Sculptures

Charles O'Neil is a full-time artist living and working in the Haliburton Highlands. With a background in classical life drawing and painting, Charles earned many awards for his painting in juried competitions during the 1980's. By the 1990's Charles became interested in three dimensional sculptures and moved into the use of metals. With some artist blacksmithing techniques Charles developed a method of creating sculptures of wire commonly found at most building supply companies. Although subject matter of his sculptures varies widely, the human form has always been his main interest. Relieving the arts should not be taken too seriously; Charles strives to include a touch of humour in his work. With a long association with the Haliburton School of the Arts, and Sir Sandford Fleming College, Charles earned a Visual and Creative Arts diploma and an Artist Blacksmith Certificate. He became a faculty member in 1997, teaching both teens and adults wire sculpture, drawing, and painting. Charles is also an active member of the Haliburton Guild of Fine Arts, the Ontario Crafts Council, and the Craft Association of British Columbia. Charles O'Neil is presently showing his work in many galleries across Canada. His work can be found in galleries in Ottawa, Haliburton, Port Carling, Bracebridge, Toronto, and Vancouver. Acceptance of his work is international and is held in many private and corporate collections in New York, Southfield Michigan, London, England, Paris, France, Brisbane, Australia, and throughout Canada. < All Artists Charles O'Neil ABOUT SCULPTOR Artist Bio Charles O'Neil is a full-time artist living and working in the Haliburton Highlands. With a background in classical life drawing and painting, Charles earned many awards for his painting in juried competitions during the 1980's. By the 1990's Charles became interested in three dimensional sculptures and moved into the use of metals. With some artist blacksmithing techniques Charles developed a method of creating sculptures of wire commonly found at most building supply companies. Although subject matter of his sculptures varies widely, the human form has always been his main interest. Relieving the arts should not be taken too seriously; Charles strives to include a touch of humour in his work. With a long association with the Haliburton School of the Arts, and Sir Sandford Fleming College, Charles earned a Visual and Creative Arts diploma and an Artist Blacksmith Certificate. He became a faculty member in 1997, teaching both teens and adults wire sculpture, drawing, and painting. Charles is also an active member of the Haliburton Guild of Fine Arts, the Ontario Crafts Council, and the Craft Association of British Columbia. Charles O'Neil is presently showing his work in many galleries across Canada. His work can be found in galleries in Ottawa, Haliburton, Port Carling, Bracebridge, Toronto, and Vancouver. Acceptance of his work is international and is held in many private and corporate collections in New York, Southfield Michigan, London, England, Paris, France, Brisbane, Australia, and throughout Canada. More About O'Neil Installed Sculptures Fire and Ice: A Really Big Shoe Embracing Eos Previous Sculpture Next Sculpture

2022 < All Sculptures 2022 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition Contact Artist for Pricing Brenna Donna Mayne Brenna From the “Gift of Water” series, Brenna is a 3/4 life-size figure cast in bronze using the time-honoured lost wax method. Seated with extended toes, as if testing the water, she acts as a romanticized steward of this source of life. Her inspiration came from concerns for the fragility of nature and years of volunteer work spent as a safe-water advocate. Donna Mayne Much of Donna's art career was spent as an Art Director, leading teams of artists in the planning, creation and installation of a series of large-scale public art projects comprising of more than 40 mural sites. All were site-specific; delivered on time and under budget. Donna is comfortable in collaborative environments that involve various levels of government, as well as local business groups and private collectors. Donna's classical training made the transition from muralist to sculpting an exhilarating one. She began her new enterprise, "Fine Sculpture," in 2013 and began exhibiting in international competitions in 2015 with her first two pieces being awarded. Donna has her Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) from the University of Windsor and studied Figure Drawing and Commercial Art at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. Artist Contact Information donnajeanmayne@gmail.com donnajeanmayne.com

Upcoming Event Art Hut Installation: Seeing the Forest For the Bees Tucked into the forest lie three Art Huts with unique art installations within each. Meet the bees that inspire part Lurch's work. Learn More To get updates on our upcoming events, follow us on social media! Past Events August 16, 2024 Bawaajigan - To Dream Community members joined Jared Tait to learn about traditional woodland style painting and help to create and paint an installation for the Haliburton Sculpture Forest. Read More October 24, 2024 2024 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition Read More August 25, 2023 Wild Bee-Making Bee with Charmaine Lurch Join Charmaine Lurch from Monday August 21st to Friday August 25th, at the Haliburton Sculpture Forest to Make Bees. Read More October 26, 2023 2023 Downtown Sculpture Exhibition Come explore! 7 sculptures are installed at sites along Highland Street, the main street of the downtown core of Haliburton Village in Ontario, Canada. Read More May 4, 2023 2023 Downtown Sculpture Exhibition - Public Unveiling On Thursday, May 4th we are unveiling the 5th Annual Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition! Read More June 30, 2023 Art Hut Installation: The Mystery Shack Tucked into the forest lie three Art Huts with unique art installations within each. Discover S. Demers' cabinet of curiorities! Read More August 25, 2023 Art Hut Installation: Inner: Don’t Peak Tucked into the forest lie three Art Huts with unique art installations within each. Discover Grey's paintings. Read More October 22, 2022 Dance Rx³: Re-emergence, Re-engagement, & Re-connection A dance event in three parts. Read More July 6, 2022 Induction of “Passage” Forest walk and artist talk. Read More October 27, 2022 Pop Goes the Forest A fibre arts installation by Susan Kendal Read More July 31, 2019 Sculpture Forest Re-imagined 2019 An extraordinary performing arts experience. Read More August 7, 2018 Sculpture Forest Re-imagined 2018 Sculpture Forest comes alive with performances, movement and music. Read More June 7, 2017 Carved in the Canadian Shield Four artists from three countries visited Haliburton for a three week sculpture symposium in 2017 in celebration of Dysart 150, Ontario 150, and Canada 150. Read More View More

Pinus strobus < Back Eastern White Pine Ojibwe Name: biisaandago-zhingwaak Scientific Name: Pinus strobus Significance in Ojibwe Cultures: Used to make shingles How to Identify the Leaves: "It has skinny needles that are 6 to 12 centimetres long. It’s easy to recognize the eastern white pine because its needles grow in bunches of five. The eastern white pine’s cones are 8 to 20 cm long and they hang down from the branches. Good seed crops aren’t produced until trees are 20 or 30 years old, and then only every 3 to 5 years. Its bark is dark greyish brown with broad thick ridges that are 2 to five centimetres thick." Sources: Image: https://www.ontario.ca/page/eastern-white-pine How to Identify Tree: https://www.ontario.ca/page/eastern-white-pine < Back Next >

Mary Anne Barkhouse All Sculptures Gelert Number on Map 21 Artist Mary Anne Barkhouse Material Bronze with patina tarnish Installation Date August 1, 2011 Learn About the Artist Gelert is a hamlet in Snowdon Township in Haliburton County named after the town of Beddgelert in Snowdonia in the north of Wales. Beddgelert (grave of Gelert) is best known for its association with the legend of Gelert, the faithful wolfhound of Prince Llywelyn, the last prince of an independent Wales. The Legend of Gelert: In the 13th century, Llywelyn, prince of North Wales, had a faithful wolfhound named Gelert that went everywhere with him. One day he went hunting without Gelert, leaving him to guard over his infant son. On Llywelyn's return, the dog ran out to greet his master, but Llwelyn saw that Gelert was stained and smeared with blood. The prince was alarmed and ran into his hunting lodge to look for his son. He found the infant's cot empty, the bedclothes and floor covered with blood. The frantic father plunged his sword into the dog's side thinking that Gelert had killed his son. The dog's dying cry was answered by a baby's cry. Llywelyn searched the lodge and found his boy unharmed but nearby lay the body of a large wolf which Gelert had slain. The prince, filled with remorse is said never to have smiled again. He buried Gelert under a cairn of stones. That spot and the town that grew around it is called Beddgelert. – the grave of Gelert. The bronze sculpture, "Gelert " stands at the watch on a hillside in Glebe Park. The Making of Gelert: The following videos were made by Highlands Media Arts recording the creation and installation of Gelert. Click to watch the video. More Photos Previous Next

John Shaw-Rimmington, Students of the 2015 Dry Stone Structures Course All Sculptures Spiral Ascent Number on Map 26 Artist John Shaw-Rimmington, Students of the 2015 Dry Stone Structures Course Material Locally Quarried Granite Installation Date July 1, 2015 Learn About the Artist The Spiral Ascent is a dry stone cairn with a spiralling grassy walkway, made with locally quarried granite. It was designed by John Shaw-Rimmington and constructed by students of the 2015 Dry Stone Structures Course at Fleming College, Haliburton School of the Arts. More Photos Previous Next

Youkie Stagg < Back Originally Published On: January 1, 2016 Originally Published By: Haliburton Echo Fire and Ice: A Really Big Shoe Written By: Youkie Stagg Local artist Charles O’Neil is well known for his wire sculptures of animal and human figures. It was not until shoe designer, Stuart Weitzman approached O’Neil at The Buyers Market of American Craft in Philadelphia and asked him to create a shoe sculpture for his corporate art collection that O’Neil branched into non-figurative forms. When Barb Bolin, principal of Fleming College’s Haliburton campus, retired after 35 years, her friends and co-workers created a fund to honour her with a sculpture of her choice. She asked O’Neil if he would create larger version of a shoe for the Sculpture Forest. Since O’Neil already had created a wire sculpture (Embracing Eos) for the Sculpture Forest, Bolin knew that he would be able to adapt his shoe design for the outdoors. The piece is made of stainless steel wire, steel rods, red glass beads from the Czech Republic, and clear, faceted glass beads from China. The Sculpture Forest, in Glebe Park, Haliburton, offers free guided tours each Tuesday from 10-11:30 am and a shorter “Curator Selection” tour on Wednesday from 12:10 – 12:50. Meet at kiosk in the Fleming College parking lot. www.haliburtonsculptureforest.ca < Previous Article Next Article >

2024 < All Sculptures 2024 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition Not for Sale VR Lion Thoreau Bakker The VR Lion This sculpture is a remix of a public work located just outside of the Fairmount Royal York Hotel in downtown Toronto. The public work (uncredited sculptor) was digitally captured using photogrammetry and reworked in virtual reality sculpting software with the addition of a headset. It is a juxaposition of the traditional and contemporary, referencing the long tradition of lions as sculptural objects with modern digital tools. This sculpture was created using 3D scanning and 3D printing. Thoreau Bakker Thoreau is a Canadian artist and academic. He is currently pursuing a practised-based PHD at TMU. Thoreau studied studio art as an undergrad at Guelph in 2015, and was drawn to the aesthetics of contemporary sculpture and learning about digital fabrication. He was interested in materiality and the formal qualities of sculpture and wished to emulate the work of pop artists like Niki de Saint Phalle and Takashi Murakami. Thoreau loves to experiment with all kinds of different types of tools and materials. These include digital sculpting, clay sculpting, 3D scanning, 3D printing, CNC, mesh editing, mold making, fiberglass and resins. He hopes to work with aluminum and bronze in the future. Thoreau has shown his sculptures in the Elora Sculpture Project and has returned again this year to Haliburton. Artist Contact Information · Website: www.thoreaubakker.com · Email: tbakker@torontomu.ca · Phone: 519-830-2199 · Instagram: @thoreaubakker

A dance event in three parts. < All Events Dance Rx³: Re-emergence, Re-engagement, & Re-connection A dance event in three parts. Tuesday, September 13, 2022 Saturday, October 22, 2022 Address: Haliburton Sculpture Forest, College Drive, Haliburton, ON, Canada About Dance RX3 A dance event in three parts: Re-emergence and Re-engagement in September 2021 and Re-connection in October 2022. This project was made possible via a collaboration between Dance Happens Here Haliburton (DH³), Throwdown Collective, and the Haliburton Sculpture Forest. From September 13-18 visitors had the chance to see dance artists Brian Solomon, Noriko Yamamoto, Phylicia Browne-Charles, Madeline Friel and Throwdown Collective (Mairéad Filgate, Brodie Stevenson and Irvin Chow) as they spent a week in solo creative dance residency in the Haliburton Sculpture Forest. These selected artists were invited to take an existing work or idea—perhaps halted by the pandemic—and to re-engage, re-configure, and adapt it to the outdoor environment, exploring it through a new lens. In Winter of 2022 (date TBD) the dancers and choreographers will get reconvene for a live event do discuss their work, sit in for a Q&A and possibly perform their work live (depending on pandemic restrictions). Toronto-based Throwdown Collective is an award-winning contemporary dance company that supports the collaborative creative pursuits of founders Zhenya Cerneacov, Mairéad Filgate and Brodie Stevenson. The Collective’s first three site-specific works, originally commissioned for Toronto's Dusk Dances Festival, went on to tour throughout Canada and beyond, including the 85th Anniversary Celebration of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, MA and Fall for Dance North at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts. Their first full-length evening of stage works, presented by DanceWorks (TO) received two Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Choreography and a total of eight nominations. Throwdown Collective enjoys a long-standing relationship with Dance Happens Here Haliburton and the Haliburton community. They created two full-length works as artists-in-residence at the Sculpture Forest (2018, 2019), and a short film commissioned by DH3 during the COVID-19 lockdown. They are thrilled to be returning to Haliburton for another exciting project. Learn More About: The Dancers Throwdown Collective DH3 September 13-18, 2021 Re-emergence We asked the Throwdown Collective to invite four dancers/choreographers, Brian Solomon, Anishinaabe dance artist, Noriko Yamamoto, Japanese-Canadian mime/dance artist and two emerging dance artists Phylicia Browne-Charles and Madeline Friel to spend a week in solo creative dance residency in the Haliburton Sculpture Forest in September 2021. These selected artists have been invited to take an existing work or idea—perhaps halted by the pandemic—and to re-engage, re-configure, and adapt it to the outdoor environment, exploring it through a new lens. Coming a year and a half after most creative rehearsals and performances were halted, this creative time in Haliburton will offer artists an open week of personal reflection, re-emergence into creative life post-pandemic, and a gentle entry back into artistic social exchange. September 13-18, 2021 Re-engagement The dance artists will reside in Haliburton with seven days to think, create, and experiment, inspired by the beautiful forest surroundings, the changing colour of the leaves and the sculptures nestled along the trails. Community members and visitors are invited to wander through the Sculpture Forest and observe the artists in their process. The Sculpture Forest attracts a culturally diverse group of visitors of all ages from the GTA and throughout the region. It is also a favourite place to walk for local residents, within walking distance of three local schools and adjacent to the Haliburton School of Art + Design. A casual meet and greet for artists and community members will be organized at the end of the week, as well as informal events for participating artists to gather, socialize, and exchange ideas. The objective of the week is to offer artists a supportive and nurturing space and opportunity to re-ignite their creativity and spark artistic exchange after a tumultuous time. The focus is on process with no expectation of a final product. Throughout the week the process will be documented on film including short interviews with participating artists. October 22, 2022 Re-connection This film footage has been edited into a creative montage and will be screened at a culminating live event in Haliburton in Fall 2022. The participating artists are returning to Haliburton for the screening, to perform their work before a live audience and to participate in a artists talkback about their experience with re-emergence, re-engagement and re-connection! Watch the video here. Thank you to all our sponsors! This event is funded by the Goverment of Canada Photo Gallery: < Previous Next >