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Jiří Genzer created his piece Harmony as part of the 2017 sculpture symposium, Carved on the Canadian Shield, in celebration of Canada 150. Harmony Jiří Genzer Name of Sculpture: Harmony Materials: Limestone Installation Date: June 2017 Number on Map: 29 Go to Gallery Carved on 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. Beginning with a block of limestone, each artist was tasked with creating a piece that reflected the theme of carving on the Canadian Shield. Artist Statement: I developed the idea for “Harmony” a number of years ago to express the concept of a harmonic relationship - supporting, helping and finding joy together. “Harmony” is a continuation of a previous work called “Balance” which portrays keeping all extremes in good balance. For us in Europe, Canada has always been a symbol of freedom, tolerance and harmonic relationships. That is why I chose the Harmony motif for the Sculpture Symposium “Carved on the Canadian Shield”. It represents my vision of Canada and my hopes for a positive future for your country, the Sculpture Forest and the Haliburton School of Art + Design. < Back to Sculptures

Dreaming Stones by Kevin Lockau. Dreaming Stones Kevin Lockau Name of Sculpture: Dreaming Stones Materials: Granite boulders Description: a 2.75 metre "mystical totem", made from six boulders collected from around the region Installation Date: June, 2001 Number on Map: 3 Go to Gallery About the Work: Kevin chose granite boulders as the medium for his installation, “Dreaming Stones”, - a 2.75 meter "mystical totem", made from six boulders collected from around the region. At the base of the totem is a sleeping wolf or coyote. Also included are a pattern of concentric circles representing time and growth rings, leaves representing regeneration, life and economy, contour lines representing contour plowing, and the faces of pioneers. Perched above all - the Owl, symbol of wisdom, flight and change. Over time a patina of lichen has conveyed a feeling of age and has accentuated the patterns. Visitors are welcome to feel the textural patterns and handle the same stone as the settlers did. < Back to Sculptures

Peter Wehrspann is a skilled designer, metal artist and wood worker. He is also the founder of Holtzundmetal, a furniture design studio. Peter Wehrspann Website: holtzundmetal.com Email: peter @holtzundmetal.com Peter is a skilled designer, metal artist and wood worker. A graduate of SITAL, he has twice received the Betty Kantor Scholarship Award for students who display excellence in the program. Before studying furniture design, Peter received a degree in Communications from Wilfrid Laurier University. Born in Toronto, he has been able to widen his perspective by traveling and living abroad in Japan, Switzerland, and Denmark. Peter has also studied design in Denmark where his work was exhibited at the prestigious Denmark Design Skole. His work has been exhibited online, in print media, and at Fluid Living, Distillery District location. Peter is energetically involved in the Toronto craft and design community, most recently is his involvement with Designers Walk Home and Style Studio Tour where his work is displayed at Weavers Art. In the time of his young career, Peter has been developing working relationships with residential clients, interior designers, and architects. < Back to Artists Contact

The Haliburton Sculpture Forest and Haliburton BIA are thrilled to host the summer Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition. Go Now Visit the gallery to see all of the sculptures and artists featured in the 2025 DHSE. 2025 DHSE The Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition The Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition is an outdoor exhibition that runs from May 7th through to October 26th, 2025. The sculptures were installed at sites along Highland St., Maple Ave. and York St. in the downtown core of Haliburton Village in Ontario, Canada. Where We Are Haliburton Village is located in the Haliburton Highlands, approximately 215 km northeast of Toronto and 285 km east of Ottawa. Directions to Downtown Haliburton can be found here. Pocket Sights Self Guided Tour While we do not offer guided tours of the Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition, feel free to take a self-guided tour using our brochure found in the Haliburton Tourism Office, or using the Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition tour on the PocketSights Tours App, available on both Apple and Android devices. Learn More About Self Guided Tours 7TH Summer Artists from All Across Canada 7 Sculptures Purchasing the Sculptures Most of the sculptures on display are available for purchase. The public deals directly with the artists; they receive all proceeds from any sale. See our gallery for pricing and artist contact information. How We Got Started The Haliburton Village BIA brings together businesses in the downtown area of Haliburton, with the support of the municipality, to organize, finance and carry out physical improvements and promote economic development and community events. The Haliburton Sculpture Forest, located in Glebe Park , has been attracting visitors to Haliburton since 2001 and has grown to an outdoor collection of over 42 sculptures. Each year thousands of visitors visit the Sculpture Forest. Over the years the Board of Directors of the Sculpture Forest has talked about how we could do something similar in the downtown of Haliburton – connecting the village to the Sculpture Forest and providing an extraordinary experience for visitors to the area. In the spring of 2018, we became aware of the Elora Sculpture Project which successfully brings sculptures to their public spaces. After consultation with the organizers of that initiative, we decided that we could make this work in Haliburton Village. The executive and membership of Haliburton Village BIA were excited by the idea and joined forces with the Haliburton Sculpture Forest to create the Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition. Since 2018 we have put out an annual call to artists in Canada working in any media suitable for outdoor sculpture. A jury selects the works for the exhibition from the submissions we receive. Funding is provided by the Haliburton Village BIA, local businesses, organizations and art-loving residents. Most of the works in each exhibition are for sale. We let the public deal directly with the artists which eliminates fees; a benefit to you and the artists. Our guide includes pricing and contact information for each artist.

John McKinnon is a Canadian visual artist who has spent the past 40 years working in stone, bronze, steel, concrete and mixed media. John McKinnon Website: johnmckinnon.ca John has spent most of the past 40 years working in stone, bronze, steel, clay, concrete and mixed-media. John is known primarily as a sculptor, although he also expresses himself through other disciplines such as painting, printmaking, drawing and multi-media. Throughout his career he has endeavoured to play and experiment with whatever came his way. He feels that an idea that cannot be expressed with one media can be expressed well in another. From time to time over the years he has worked in the commercial art business which has inspired some of his later artwork. In the past 12 years he has developed an interest in working in the ephemeral media of ice, snow and sand. The creation of these non-permanent works give him what he refers to as the Zen-Sculpting experience and have taken him to many exotic places around the world. Teaching has been a great inspiration for John. In the early eighties he taught at David Thompson University in Nelson. From the mid eighties until now he has taught modern hard stone carving technique to Inuit carvers in many communities in the Canadian Arctic. During this period he also taught many courses in Sculpture at Fleming College’s Haliburton School of The Arts in Haliburton, Ontario. John lives in Nelson, British Columbia. < Back to Artists

Meet The Team Board of Directors - Chair Barb Bolin Barb Bolin is the former Principal/Dean of the Haliburton Campus of Fleming College and the Haliburton School of Art + Design and is the founding chair of the Haliburton Sculpture Forest. She has been involved in Community Development through her involvement with many, many organizations including leadership roles at The Arts Council ~ Haliburton Highlands, Abbey Gardens, Haliburton County Development Corporation and Rails End Gallery. Board of Directors - Vice Chair Annette Blady Annette Blady was born in 1956 in Toronto, Canada. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1980. During the 1980’s, as a partner in an architectural technology company, she rose to international prominence as an interior designer, creating works for major projects such as The Nieman Marcus Center in Chicago, Harbourfront in Toronto and The World Financial Centre in Battery Park, New York City. Annette retired from design work in 1989 to pursue a full-time career in fine art. Exhibiting internationally, her work can now be found in many prominent galleries and private collections in Canada, the United States, and in Europe. Her broad repertoire ranges from artworks of chromatic exuberance to soft and poignant elegance. Annette’s eclectic style uses textured exotic papers and fabrics, cut glass, and metallic acrylic, as mixed media collage painting, linking motifs from ancient symbolism with those of modern design and abstract expressionism. Annette has been a Board member for over 10 years. Board of Directors - Secretary Jenny Rieger Jenny Rieger has a Master's in Dance History from York University and a Master's of Museum Studies from the University of Toronto. A social historian, she worked with a number of Toronto historic house museums ending up as the Site Co-ordinator of The Grange and the Co-ordinator of the Information Guides at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She has her professional certification in Cultural Sector Leadership and Historic Site Preservation from the University of Victoria. She was the Chair of the National Historic Sites Alliance of Ontario, Chair of the Toronto Preservation Board and on the Executive of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario. "I live close to the Sculpture Forest and am able to walk my dog through it most days. I have three favourite pieces: Curled Figures—Susan Low-Beer; Musical Inspiration—Simon Chidharara, and Sleep of the Huntress—Doug Stephens. It is the massiveness, shape and texture of the works that appeals to me." Jenny has been on the Board since 2017. Board of Directors - Treasurer Scott Walling Scott Michael Walling is a multi-disciplinary artist who moved to the Haliburton Highlands in 2015 to attend Haliburton School of Art + Design. Falling in love with the area, he wanted to become a part of the Highlands community and slowly joined several boards and committees. After purchasing a house in Haliburton, Scott is here to stay, pursuing his career as an artist while staying community focused. Scott has been a Board member since fall of 2019. Board of Directors Scott Childs Scott moved his sculpture studio to Haliburton in 2019 following 35 years making art in Toronto. Originally from Thunder Bay, York University drew him to Toronto in the early 80's to study art, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1987. Exhibiting both his sculpture and drawings in solo and group shows, his work appeared in a wide variety of venues including commercial dealers, artist run spaces, and regional art galleries. Collaborating with fellow artists, Scott was integral to several early collectives organizing their own exhibitions in industrial spaces in the early 90s and into the next millennium. In addition to private collections, much of Scott’s work consists of large commissions by architects and clients such as The Meeting Place (Toronto), Strachan House (Toronto), The Children’s Museum (Kitchener), plus numerous restaurants. “I feel very fortunate to be living and making work in a community that values the efforts of artists” Board of Directors Rose Pearson Bio coming soon. Communications and Outreach Co-ordinator Lorry Brandon Lorry has been a Friend of the Sculpture Forest since it first started in 2001 and has witnessed its growth over the years. She is a retired school teacher and has always been a strong supporter of the arts community in Haliburton County. She has developed her knowledge of art while travelling and taking courses through HSAD. Lorry loves to share information and stories about the sculptures and artists in the forest! Staff - Curator Jim Blake

Liz Menard < Art Huts Location Art Hut 2 Directions Art Hut 2 is located behind Fleming College. To find Art Hut 2: Walk to 19. Kennisis: Horse and Rider Enter the Red Fleming College Doors Walk straight across the Great Hall and exit the back doors to find Art Hut 2 Installation Start: June 1, 2025 Installation End: August 31, 2025 Liz Menard Botanical Canendensis Performance painting in the Art Hut: eight paintings, acrylic on canvas and wood panels About the Artist Liz Menard Previous Next

Susan Low-Beer is a Canadian visual artist and sculptor, born in Montreal, Quebec. Susan Low-Beer Website: susanlow-beer.com Susan Low-Beer was born in Montreal, Quebec and studied at Mount Allison University, New Brunswick where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts. She acquired a Master of Fine Arts degree at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. In 1999, she received the Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in the Crafts, and in 2000 was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts. In 2001 she created an installation in the courtyard garden of the Burlington Art Centre, called “Rocksbreath”. In 2002, the pieces were shown at the Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo as an indoor installation and were called “Rocksbreath II, An Improvisation”. She had a solo show at the McClure Gallery in Montreal, called “Tools for Daily Living”. Plans are in the works to travel this show to many galleries in Canada. Susan’s work has been exhibited in numerous other solo exhibitions. It has also been shown in group exhibitions including Aspects of Figurative Ceramics at the Riley Hawk Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, The International Exposition of Sculpture Objects and Function Art, in Chicago and New York City, Survivors in Search of a Voice: The Art of Courage, an exhibition that toured internationally and The Eighth Chunichi International Exhibition of Ceramic Art in Japan. She is represented in the collections of the Museum of Civilization, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The National Museum of Modern Art, Japan, the Burlington Art Centre, the Art Gallery of Mississauga, and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, as well as numberous private collections. < Back to Artists

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Sound Vessel: Forest by Metalgenesis is inspired by trees and given voice by the wind. Sound Vessel: Forest Metalgenesis: Don Dickson & Amy Doolittle Materials: Corten Steel Plate, stainless steel rods, etc Description: Forest designs in a rectangular prism encasing sound rods Location: Haliburton Sculpture Forest; Upper ski trail Installation Date: August, 2003 Number on Map: 5 Go to Gallery Artist's Vision for Sculpture: Synonymous with the perception of “up north” is the image of trees. They are so numerous that one takes them for granted. Solid yet pliant, they are part of our horizons and landscapes. Like a tree that is still, yet filled with life, the vessel holds sound and, like a tree, is animated and given voice by the wind. < Back to Sculptures

Forest Screen Bench Scott McKay Name of Sculpture: Forest Screen Bench Materials: Corten Steel Installation Date: 2020 Number on Map: E Go to Gallery Wendy Wilkins, the patron who purchased Mother Earth and commissioned the Sun Bench to accompany it, thought it would be lovely to add a couple more Scott McKay one-of-a-kind benches to create Mother Earth’s living room where a whole family or group of friends could gather. So, she worked with the Sculpture Forest to commission two new nature inspired benches - Forest Screen Bench and Fire Bench - to complete the set and create Mother Earth's living room. In 2018 the Haliburton Sculpture Forest teamed up with the Haliburton Village BIA (business Improvement Area) to create the Downtown Haliburton Sculpture Exhibition. This featured the display of six sculptures on the main street from Ontario artists from June to October. McKay’s Mother Earth was one of them. Mother Earth is McKay’s vision of the classical mother figure who is one with the tree of life. < Back to Sculptures

Dancers of Dance Rx³ Re-emergence, Re-engagement, & Re-connection. Meet the renowned dancers and choreographers participating in Dance Rx³ from the Throwdown Collective . 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. Irvin Chow will be stepping in for Zhenya Cerneacov for this project. Dance Rx3 > Throwdown Collective > DH³ > Past Events > Throwdown Collective: Zhenya Cerneacov, Mairead Filgate & Brodie Stevenson Mairead Filgate Filgate is a contemporary dance artist currently dividing her time between Toronto and Montreal. A graduate of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre and the Etobicoke School of the Arts, she has performed extensively throughout Canada and beyond with the Danny Grossman Dance Company, tiger princess dance projects, Public Recordings, Dusk Dances, BoucharDanse, Chartier Danse, Bill Coleman, Gabby Kamino, Laurie Raymond, and Kaeja d’Dance, among others. As a choreographer Mairéad creates both independently and collaboratively. She makes regular sojourns to New York City to study the work of Trisha Brown, and explores dance communities around the globe whenever she can find an opportunity. With Throwdown Collective she co-created theatrical dance events called Sculpture Forest Re-Imagined in 2018 and 2019, working with local musicians and dancers which led audiences through a series of performance vignettes in the Haliburton Sculpture Forest. Mairéad holds a Bachelor of Arts with High Distinction in Women & Gender Studies and Sociology from the University of Toronto. She served as the Chair for the Board of Directors of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists from 2016 to 2018. Brodie Stevenson Brodie Stevenson was born in the small village of Wuikinuxv on British Columbia’s central coast. From 2008 – 2014 Stevenson was a company member of Toronto Dance Theatre, where he performed in original works by Artistic Director Christopher House and also for guest choreographers such as Lina Cruz, Deborah Hay and Heidi Strauss. As an independent dancer Stevenson has worked with a wide range of choreographers including Marie-Josée Chartier, Allison Cummings, Denise Fujiwara, Laurence Lemieux and Sashar Zarif. Since 2008 Stevenson has been creating and performing as part of the award winning trio, Throwdown Collective. He is a Dora Award nominated performer and choreographic recipient with Throwdown Collective. With Throwdown Collective she co-created theatrical dance events called Sculpture Forest Re-Imagined in 2018 and 2019, working with local musicians and dancers which led audiences through a series of performance vignettes in the Haliburton Sculpture Forest. Irvin Chow Irvin Chow graduated with a BFA in Dance at York University. Through the years he has toured across Canada and internationally working with many choreographers such as: Angela Blumberg, Sylvie Bouchard, Jasmyn Fyffe, Robert Glumbek, Michael Greyeyes, Laurence Lemieux and Yvonne Ng. Irvin has had the pleasure of performing in David Earle’s, Miserere , in the Toronto Heritage Dance project as well as in William Yong’s Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage show, vox:lumen . He has worked with Christopher House’s as part of Toronto Dance Theatre in 2015 and was honoured to dance for Julia Sasso again in the remount of her much-acclaimed work, Sporting Life . Irvin's latest performance was with Citadel + Compagnie’s remount of Nuit by Jean-Pierre Perreault. The upcoming year looks very exciting for Irvin as he collaborates with both new and familiar artists. Brian Solomon electricmoose.ca Multi-award nominated, winner and loser, creator B Solomon is of Anishinaabe and settler heritage, born in Shebahonaning on the North Channel of Lake Huron. As a creator his work is multidisciplinary, raw, challenging and full of spirit. His commissions have ranged from community-rooted works with over 100 interpreters, solos in trees, to animated installations of landfill. His works have been presented and toured across Turtle Island and abroad. Since he was a teenager, much of Solomon’s work has been committed to community activation with a focus on the unacknowledged and underserved ones across the land. He is passionate about helping people relearn the nature of their ancient bodies, and take back the space those bodies occupy as caretakers. Noriko Yamamoto momogallery.ca Noriko Yamamoto is a mime, dancer, choreographer, Silent Storyteller, mime-dancer, visual artist, and Nia instructor. After a distinguished performing career in Tokyo, she moved to Canada in 1994 and has continued performing in Toronto and across the country. In recent years, she’s been concentrating on her visual arts and performing more of her mime-dance pieces, which combine elements of mime and modern dance. Phylicia Browne-Charles Phylicia Browne-Charles is an emerging dance artist from Toronto, Ontario. She began her dance training at the age of five in various styles including ballet, jazz, contemporary, modern, lyrical and tap. She is a 2020 graduate of the BFA Honours Dance Program at York University, where she continued her training in contemporary/modern and ballet dance forms with a focus in choreography. Phylicia has danced and choreographed for Dance Innovations, York Dances, and Bloom, and was a member of Chimera Project’s Company B Lab summer of 2019. Recently Phylicia participated in a 5 week mentorship program with Peggy Baker Dance Projects: RBC Emerging Artists Program 2021/2022. She is also participating in adelheid’s re:research for the 2021 season. Over the years she has had the opportunity to expand her dance vocabulary by working with dance artists Tracey Norman, Peggy Baker, Peter Kelly, Susan Lee, Helen Jones, John Ottmann, Julia Sasso, Allen Kaeja, Karen Kaeja, Nicole Rose Bond, Mairi Greig, Emilio Colalillo, Mateo Galindo Torres and Sofí Gudiño. Phylicia is excited to continue her expansion of knowledge in performance and choreography as she progresses through her professional career. Madeline Friel Madeline Friel is a Toronto based artist. She is a dancer/actress who is highly interested in the cohesive practice between these two art forms. Madeline’s approach is heavily influenced by both forms and explores how acting, and dancing can coexist harmoniously to create intriguing and complex performances. Madeline began her dance training at the young age of five. She has studied many styles including Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Hip-Hop, Contemporary, Acrobatics and Modern. At thirteen Madeline began extensive training in acting. This led Madeline to be cast in the play “Play” by Samuell Beckett in the Sears Drama Festival which was performed at both the district and regional levels. Informed in these two art forms, Madeline’s approach to the art of choreography is exciting and unique as it has allowed her to engage in movement on a more theatrical and performative level. Two of Madeline’s solo pieces, which she choreographed and performed were showcased at the prestigious Ryerson School of Performance program, from which she recently graduated; “Suzanne” (Enchoreo), and “To Me” (Choreographic Works). Madeline received the Orly Watkin Award for excellence in dance, graduated with honours and has obtained a BFA in Performance Dance. This event is funded by the Goverment of Canada