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View and/or download a map of our sculpture collection. Map of the Sculpture Forest A Evolution B Current C Spirit of the Wild D Sun Bench E Forest Screen Bench F Fire Bench 1 Homesteaders 2 Pan 3 Dreaming Stones 4 Guardians of the Forest 5 Sound Vessel: Forest 6 Beaver 7 Visionary 8 Curled Figures 9 Redwing Frond 10 Moose Scraps 11 Terminus 12 A Walk in the Woods 13 Embracing Eos 14 Sleep of the Huntress 15 To Cut or Not to Cut 16 C to C 17 Lissome #5 18 Shadow Caster 19 Kennisis 20 Fire and Ice 21 Gelert 22 A Conspiracy of Ravens 23 Atmo-sphere 24 Unity Gate 25 Musical Inspiration 26 Spiral Ascent 27 Together We Explore the Wild 28 Flying Debris 29 Harmony 30 Voyage 31 Storied Moons 32 Wind Dervish 33 Mother Earth 34 Das Buch XXIII 35 Together We Achieve the Extraordinary 36 Matriarchy 37 I see a wish 38 Passage 39 Depth 40 Double Take View a PDF version of this map here.

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. < All Events 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. Tuesday, May 30, 2017 Wednesday, June 7, 2017 Address: Haliburton School of Art and Design, College Drive, Haliburton, ON, Canada Read More 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. Beginning with four blocks of limestone, each artist was tasked with creating a piece that reflected the theme of carving on the Canadian Shield. Featured Artists Mary Ellen Farrow , Georgetown, Ontario, Canada Jiří Genzer , Prague, Czech Republic Carole Turner , Portland, Oregon and Istanbul, Turkey John McKinnon , Nelson, B.C, Canada Artist's Talk On May 30th, the Haliburton School of Art + Design hosted an Artist's Talk for the sculptors. The audience in the great hall got to hear the inside story on the work and lives of the four sculptors visiting Haliburton for the Symposium. They also got to enjoy desserts and treats at the same time! Artist's Panel - Carving in Place On June 7th, as part of the Carved on the Canadian Shield Sculpture Symposium, a panel discussion was held at the Rail's End Gallery between the four artists here for the symposium and local sculptor Mary Anne Barkhouse. The panel focused on place in the creative process and the sculptors' experiences of creating sculptures in different places and landscapes in the world and how this affects and inspires their work. Sculpture Unveiling We will be holding a community celebration in July to have an official unveiling of the sculptures . Contributors A special thank you to our contributors for this initiative: Ontario 150 Carol Moffatt and Tony Aymong Barb Bolin The Estate of Bob Blake Rotary Club of Haliburton Anonymous Donor Photo Gallery: < Previous Next >

Angus Sullivan < Back Originally Published On: August 29, 2017 Originally Published By: Haliburton Echo To Cut or Not to Cut Written By: Angus Sullivan To Cut or Not to Cut was created by John Beachli in 2006. There is only one sculpture in the Haliburton Sculpture Forest carved out of local granite. Granite from the Pre-Cambrian shield (actually called gneiss) is notoriously difficult to work with. It is hard on carving tools, and it has fault lines that might result in a fractured sculpture if not handled with care. A sculptor has to be patient, creative, careful, and experienced to work with it. The stone for “To Cut or Not to Cut” was blasted from the ground under where Todd’s Independent stands now on County Rd 21. Some sculptors believe that forms and figures exist within the stone, and that it is their job to allow these shapes to appear. This concept can be seen in Beachli’s sculpture. The natural red colouration of some parts of the rock inspired the red flannel shirt of the lumberjack and the faces of the figures. If you walk around the sculpture, you can see sections that were left uncarved, almost as if the artist found the boy and his father within the stone. Haliburton County has a long history of men working in the forest, whether in the logging industry or cutting trees to clear land for farming and fire wood. This sculpture details the scene of a father and son working together. “To Cut or Not to Cut” is about the conversations that take place between them as they work. It can also be interpreted as the push and pull relationship we have with the forest. We need timber for building and heat, but we also need to conserve the forest and our environment to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink. How do you know when to cut and when not to cut? The Haliburton Sculpture Forest is located in Glebe Park on 297 College Drive. This unique collection of 36 sculptures by Canadian and international artists is open to the public, dawn to dusk, for your own discovery. Free guided tours occur on Tuesdays (10:00-11:30) and Wednesdays (12:10-12:50) in July and August. You can use the sculpture forest app (download PocketSights and search for Haliburton) or visit the website to learn more about the sculptures. www.haliburtonsculptureforest.ca < Previous Article Next Article >

Gelert by Mary Anne Barkhouse is inspired by the Legend of Gelert and watches over the Sculpture Forest. Gelert Mary Anne Barkhouse Name of Sculpture: Gelert Materials: Bronze with patina tarnish Description: Bronze sculpture of an Irish Wolfhound inspired by the Welsh legend of Gelert and Prince Llywelyn Location: Haliburton Sculpture Forest; North trail, looking out over the field Installation Date: August, 2011 Number on Map: 21 Go to Gallery About the Sculpture: 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. < Back to Sculptures

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. < All Events 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. Monday, August 12, 2024 Friday, August 16, 2024 Address: 297 College Drive, Haliburton, ON, Canada Bawaajigan means "To Dream". Jared Tait was the artist in residence in the Haliburton Sculpture Forest in August 2024. He worked with community members at the campus of the Fleming Haliburton School of Art + Design to create 3-dimensional woodland style paintings, which were installed in the Sculpture Forest on Saturday, August 17th, 2024. Jared Tait is a member of the Sachigo Lake First Nation an Oji-Cree First Nation in Treaty 9, territory in the far north of Ontario near the Manitoba border. Jared was raised in Thunder Bay. He currently resides with his family in the countryside near Bancroft, Ontario. In 2018, Jared began painting under the mentorship of his father, Tim Tait a self-taught artist. Jared recalls his childhood being surrounded by his father's paintings and being told the stories within them. Since his exposure to art at a young age, Jared has created a strong appreciation and connection to art. Through his understanding of the Woodland style and the methods of telling a story through his work, Jared captures the deep relations to the land and its creatures. He builds on these motivations to preserve the sacred stories, symbolism and teachings. Jared creates imagery inspired by his personal and spiritual experiences and hopes to pass his teachings on to future generations. People can see Jared’s work hanging near the registration desk of the Haliburton School of Art and Design. An image of his mural Biingiden can be seen on one of the panels in the kiosks at the entrances to the Sculpture Forest and Glebe Park. Photo Gallery: < Previous Next >

2023 < All Sculptures 2023 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition $2,800.00 Orange Bloom Kristi Chen Orange Bloom Rattan Reed & Steel Orange Bloom is a sculpture that showcases the amalgamation of traditional craft practices and industrialized mediums. The basket is hand woven coated with an orange silicone finish attached to a welded curved steel armature. It is shaped into an organic form mimicking moments of a flower blooming. Utilizing lost basketry techniques in conjunction with manufactured finishes introduces the hybridization of time period and cultures. The basket vessel symbolizes the ancestral past while the silicone rubber coating reflects the current currency. The combination between the woven and the silicone rubber changes and evolves into another medium. Kristi Chen Parts of my identity are embedded in the pieces I created, not a portrait, but a sense of my fragmented existence. As a Toronto based multi-disciplinary cultural producer and artist, I am interested in themes of intergenerational, ancestral archives and how it relates to experiences of the diaspora. I was raised in Singapore, then the United States, Canada, and Hong Kong (SAR) which has made me cognizant of constant migration, influencing the subject matter and materiality in my practice. I seek to find comfort within my diasporic experience using sculptural forms to communicate identity. Imaginative creatures and dystopic, surreal environments are drawn from notions of my collective and personal experiences. Basket-weaving and smell are a big part of my sculptures, as it is a lost technique in my paternal side of the family. It is important for me to address cross-cultural perspectives, trans-generational traumas and re-interpretations of ancient Asian ideologies. I currently use traditional weaving techniques with synthetic materials to speak towards the relationship of the ancient and the anthropocene. Kristi has a BF in Sculpture/Installation from OCAD University and has been exhibiting her work in group and solo shows in the GTA region since 2018. Artist Contact Information Website : www.kristichen.com Email : kristichen2@gmail.com Phone: 416-838-5231 Instagram: @kristi_xy

John Beachli's sculpture To Cut or Not To Cut represents the conversations between father and son while working, and our relationship with the forest. < Back to Sculptures To Cut or Not To Cut John Beachli Materials: Local Granite Description: Father and son having a conversation over the stump of a recently felled tree. Installation Date: August, 2006 Number on Map: 15 Go to Gallery About the Sculpture: Haliburton County has a long history of men working in the forest, in logging camps—such those run by Mossom Boyd—or cutting timber on their own land and also a history of sons learning skills from their fathers as they helped them with their work. This sculpture, carved out of local stone recovered from rock blasted from the Pre-Cambrian shield at a nearby building site, tells the story of a man and his son having a conversation over the stump of a tree that has just been felled. “To Cut or Not to Cut” is about the conversations that occur when a son is working with his father. It is also a representation of the never-ending push and pull of our relationship with the forest. We need the timber for building shelter, for heat, for a thousand different reasons; we also need the forests to conserve our environment, to protect our water, to provide habitat and to purify the air. How do you decide what to cut and what not to cut?

2018 < All Sculptures 2018 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition $2,500.00 Layers Darrell Markewitz Artist Contact Information 519-923-9219 www.warehamforge.ca

2023 < All Sculptures 2023 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition Contact Artist for Pricing Aerial Mark Puigmarti Aerial Forged Stainless Steel & Bronze Sometimes my work is a result of visualizing processes of forging effects, and reinterpreting these effects as details in the natural world. Ariel uses several forging processes that combine in the simplistic form of a heron about to take fight. Mark Puigmarti What seems like lifetimes ago I was refrigeration and HVAC mechanic. Working on commercial industrial gizmos that kept things or people warm or cold, while usually experiencing the polar opposite temperature of whatever it was I was trying to rectify. It is a respectable trade that many men and some women make a respectable living at. However, as much as I tried to make the piping arrangements visually pleasing, orderly, and followable there was something lacking. It just never quite clicked with my persistent dream to follow a more artistic path. One day about half way into a 25-year run at HVACR, I made it my mission to try and change what seemed truly unchangeable. Slowly with a long list of coincidences, happy accidents and a load of sacrifices, particularly by my supportive wife Chris, positive results started to accumulate in the intended direction of working with hot metal. This did indeed take 10 years of incremental progression to end up at the beginning of a new and completely unrecognizable life and style. It is not lost on me to grasp the sheer improbability to do that mid-career, in that career, or any for that matter. That cord was cut 14 years ago now." Artist Contact Information Email : mark@sparkswillflyforge.ca Website : sparkswillflyforge.ca Instagram: @sparkswillflyforge Facebook: @SparksWillFlyForge

2022 < All Sculptures 2022 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition $4,000.00 A Flower Szonja Vucsetics Depth “A Flower '' is part of an ongoing series of work titled “Container Garden in Tkaronto”. This series uses the image of plants metaphorically to describe human struggles, emotions and mechanisms. Contemplating land and soil as the place that holds our stories of survival within a natural cycle of impermanence through life and death, it reflects on notions of displacement, relocation, settlement and coexistence. Like potted plants which are uprooted, contained, isolated and replanted elsewhere, I reflect on a childhood journey of emmigration and loneliness. The sculpture is carved out of a single elm log, standing on a concrete pedestal. Szonja Vucsetics Szonja Vucsetics is a Hungarian - Canadian artist based in Toronto, working primarily in oil paint and mixed media on paper. She graduated in drawing and painting from OCAD University in 2007 and has lived and worked in Hungary, Jamaica and Canada. Fascinated from early childhood by the expressive voice of colour in nature and visual imagery, Vucsetics looked to expressionism and storybook illustrations to relate her work through her early years as an artist. Using art as a therapy through life experiences, traumas and journeys, her work continuously developed as a visual journal telling the story of lived and subconscious experiences. Her illustrative works speak the visual language of stories and dreams, playfully blurring the boundaries between reality and imagination, impression and expression, representation and abstraction. Through material explorations with brushwork and colour, her work often focuses on our relationship to land as the place that holds our stories. Recently, Vucsetics has been working on narrative depictions of nature and landscape as an allegory for the human conditions of death, rebirth, joy and suffering. Artist Contact Information szonjatics@gmail.com szonjasstudios.ca

2022 < All Sculptures 2022 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition Contact Artist for Pricing Carapace Pillar Michelle Cieloszczyk Carapace Pillar Carapace Pillar consists of blue silicone protective vests attached to a metal structure. The piece compares the use of shields and body armour in law enforcement with the protective outer shells of animals or insects, envisioning a biological skin of policing. The sculptures create a soft and malleable shell out of an aggregate of protective equipment. The reversal of the vest's function highlights the discrepancies between hard and soft social functions. Michelle Cieloszczyk Michelle Cieloszczyk is a visual artist in Tkaronto / Toronto Ontario. Michelle's practice encompasses object-based works, installations, public interventions, and public art. Her recent body of work started in 2017, examines the politics of policing considering the roles and structures of authority through castings of uniforms. Michelle studied at OCAD University (BFA in Sculpture/Installation) and the Glasgow School of Art. Artist Contact Information info@michellecieloszczyk.com szonjasstudios.ca

2024 < All Sculptures 2024 Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition $2000.00 Oracle Rosalinde Baumgartner Oracle This sculpture was created using sculpture clay, fired cone 6 and was then smoke fired. Oracle is presented on a wooden base which has been treated to withstand the elements. Oracle stands 17 inches tall, gazing upon and holding a precious rock. A contemplative figure contemplating the future. So much coming our way, so many trying to help, will we make the right decisions? Searching for wisdom. ~Rosalinde Baumgartner~ Rosalinde Baumgartner Rosalinde is a mixed media artist who resides outside of Belwood, Ontario. You can visit her studio by making an appointment. This year she also has a sculpture, "Georgina", in the Fenelon Falls Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition and "Lightwalker", in the Burlington Waterfront Sculpture Project. We would like to welcome Rosalinde to Haliburton this year. Artist Contact Information Phone: 519-803-6435 Website : www.artevoke.com Email : rosalinde.baumgartner@gmail.com Instagram: @ rosalindebaumgartnerartist