Title

Sports Mural

Artist

Rainford, Ken

Date

1973

Medium

ceramic

Type

tile mural

Dimensions

6.1m height x 9.1m width

Owner

City of Burnaby

Accession Number

PA2014.1

Location

Burnaby Mountain

Category

City of Burnaby Public Art Collection

Collection

Public Art

Lat/Long

49.282013,-122.934285

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Commissioned by the City of Burnaby and the City of New Westminster, the Sports Mural was built to raise funds for the 1973 Jeux du Canada Games. The mural, designed by Vancouver-based competition winner Ken Rainford, was intended to be a base for a separately-commissioned sculpture—a "sports plaza"—which was never installed. It is undetermined whether a time capsule is buried underneath the mural. The time capsule supposedly identifies the donors, each of whom paid $1 "for a little immortality": a mosaic tile.