Title

Charm Bracelet

Artist

Coupland, Douglas

Date

2020

Medium

steel

concrete

Type

sculpture

Owner

Shape Properties

Accession Number

NA

Location

The Amazing Brentwood - 4567 Lougheed Highway, Burnaby

Category

Private Development Public Art

Collection

Public Art

Lat/Long

49.267913,-123.001898

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The artists’ concept proposal states: “Burnaby is a mix of nature and industry and has largely been centreless until the arrival of the Amazing Brentwood. The idea of collecting themes central to Burnaby in the form of a necklace seemed like a relevant way of connecting retail culture to civic art and placemaking. Part of the Charm Bracelet experience is that of the viewer scanning it up and down to see what’s in it. No two people will have the same opinion on what ‘works,’ what doesn’t work, and what they think also ought to have been included. This in turn generates a lively discussion on the subject of what makes Burnaby Burnaby — which is what the piece is, at its core, all about..”

Since 1991 Coupland has written thirteen novels published in most languages. He has written and performed for England’s Royal Shakespeare Company and is a columnist for The Financial Times of London. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, e-flux, DIS and Vice. In 2000 Coupland amplified his visual art production and has recently had two separate museum retrospectives, Everything is Anything is Anywhere is Everywhere at the Vancouver Art Gallery, The Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and Bit Rot at Rotterdam’s Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, and Munich’s Villa Stücke. In 2015 and 2016 Coupland was artist in residence in the Paris Google Cultural Institute. In May 2018 his exhibition on ecology, Vortex, opened at the Vancouver Aquarium and will be traveling globally throughout 2019-2021. In June 2018 National Portrait, an installation of over 1,000 3D-printed heads and busts, pens at the Ottawa Art Gallery. Coupland is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy, an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Officer of the Order of British Columbia, a Chevlier de l’Order des Arts et des Lettres and receiver of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence.