Title

Evangeline

Artist

Fafard, Joe

Date

2015

Medium

bronze

Type

sculpture

Dimensions

1.8m height x 1.2m width

Accession Number

PA2016.1

Location

Civic Square, 6100 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC

Collection

Public Art

Lat/Long

49.227687,-123.006915

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Evangeline is a life-size figurative sculpture of a horse, and a companion piece to Bay Bébé II. Together, the work works refer to histories and cultures of settler Canada, and to rural life and relationships between people and animals. Joe Fafard, a longtime resident Saskatchewan, had a lifelong interest in domesticated animals and the relationships between animals and humans. The importance of the horse to farm life in Burnaby makes Evangeline and Bay Bébé II resonant artworks for this prominent civic and community space. Purchased by the City of Burnaby and Polygon Homes

Nationally and internationally acclaimed artist, Joe Fafard, was born September 2, 1942 to French-Canadian parents in the small agricultural community of Ste. Marthe, Saskatchewan. He attended the University of Manitoba (BFA 1966) and Pennsylvania State University (MFA 1968). He was at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina from 1968 – 1974 and visiting lecturer at the University of California at Davis in 1980-1981. Joe Fafard is a distinguished full-time artist and sculptor who currently resides on an acreage near Lumsden, Saskatchewan. Mr. Fafard is one of Canada’s leading professional visual artists and has exhibitions of a wide variety of work in galleries and museums across the country and around the world, including the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan. He is widely recognized as being at the forefront of his art, and his outstanding contributions to the arts have significantly raised the profile of both Saskatchewan and Canada on the national stage. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1981; awarded the Architectural Institute of Canada Allied Arts Award in 1987; received an honorary degree from the University of Regina in 1989, and from the University of Manitoba in 2007; received the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2002; received the National Prix Montfort in 2003; received the Lieutenant Governor’s Saskatchewan Centennial Medal for the Arts in 2005; was named CTV Citizen of the Year in 2006; and the Saskatchewan Arts Board Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Joe Fafard also received his third honorary doctorate degree from the University of Saskatchewan in June of 2012.