A large lit-up mural on the ceiling of a deck shows a blue, red, and yellow painting by Ben Reeves called Viewpoint

Ben Reeves, Viewpoint, 2020
Photo: Rachel Topham Photography

PUBLIC ART CONSULTING AND MANAGEMENT

Ballard Fine Art is Canada’s leading public art consultation firm, managing and advising on an array of large and complex projects. Over 90 different developers and municipalities have trusted us to envision, manage, and complete these multi-year plans.

For our clients, we provide and facilitate engaging public art that sparks imagination and fosters and encourages connectivity and social interaction, enriching urban environments and the public realm. Offering comprehensive and complete art management and curatorial services for a wide range of public projects, we work collaboratively with our clients, stakeholders and design team professionals to help realize the project vision and goals with innovative and compelling public art.

Ballard Fine Art has extensive experience developing and facilitating art plans for diverse public projects of all scales, providing extensive knowledge and insightful attention to best practices in contemporary art. As well, we have vast experience with public art policies and guidelines required for different jurisdictions and development projects.

PUBLIC ART MANAGEMENT SERVICES

  • Strategic Master Art Plans

  • Detailed Public Art Plans

  • History and community context research

  • Community engagement with Indigenous communities, neighbourhood groups, and diverse publics

  • Artist research and selection process

  • Artist liaising and artist contract facilitating

  • Budget planning and management

  • Final documentation, including maintenance manuals

  • Assistance with public relations for successful public art projects

  • JUN KANEKO

    Untitled (Heads), 2024
    The City of Lougheed | Shape

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  • XWALACKTUN

    ESHLHIHKW’IWS – Making Connections, 2024
    City of Lougheed | Shape

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  • KEN LUM

    Cheung’s Food Market
    Century Group

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  • JILL ANHOLT

    Gliding Edge, 2024
    City of Burnaby

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  • LUCIEN DUREY

    Neighbourly Figures, 2024
    PC Urban

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  • CATHERINE WIDGERY

    Wind Veil, 2024
    Tailor | Marcon

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  • Knit by roots and wings by Tyler Los-Jones

    TYLER LOS-JONES

    Knit by roots and wings, 2024
    PC Urban | Nicola Wealth

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  • DEVON KNOWLES

    Walking Spectrum, 2021
    601 W Hastings St | PCI

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  • JAMES HARRY

    lháẃḵem (Blue Mussel), 2023
    Panatch Group

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  • MARIANNE NICOLSON

    Rise and Fall, 2021
    Townline | Sussex

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  • MYFANWY MACLEOD

    Cosmos (I am as constant as the northern star), 2022
    Polaris | Citimark, Grosvenor, & Transca Development

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  • JUSTIN LANGLOIS

    Where Else Would You Rather Be?, 2021
    Origin | Anthem

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  • GUNILLA KLINGBERG

    Wheel of Everyday Life, 2021
    Burrard Place | Reliance

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  • Folly Electric light based artwork by Alex Morrison

    ALEX MORRISON

    Folly Electric, 2020
    PC Urban

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  • A patio ceiling features a backlit painting by Ben Reeves

    BEN REEVES

    Viewpoint, 2020
    The Smithe | Boffo

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  • DOUGLAS COUPLAND

    Fordite, 2022
    Station Square | Anthem & Beedie Living

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SELECT CURRENT AND RECENT PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

Anthem & Beedie Living, Station Square, Burnaby
Anthem, 1698 West Georgia Street, Vancouver
ASPAC, River Green, Richmond
Beedie Living, Dayhu Group of Companies & AbCellera, AbCellera Campus, Vancouver
Boffo Developments, Bassano, Burnaby
Bosa Properties, Fifteen Fifteen, Vancouver
Bosa Properties & Vanprop Investments, Lansdowne, Richmond
Brivia, Curv, Vancouver
Cadillac Fairview + Shape Properties, CF Richmond Centre, Richmond
Century Group, Century City, Surrey
City of Burnaby, Confederation Park Community Centre, Burnaby
City of Burnaby, South Burnaby Ice Arena, Burnaby
City of White Rock
Concert Properties, North Harbour, North Vancouver
Concord Pacific, Brentwood Phase 3, Burnaby
Concord Pacific, Barker + Olive, Burnaby
Dawson+Sawyer, 15730 Fraser Highway, Surrey
Edgar Development, The Hendrix, Edmonton

Greystar, University Heights, Victoria
Holburn Group of Companies, Little Mountain, Vancouver
Low Tide Properties & PCI Developments, Great Northern Way, Vancouver
Marcon, West 42nd Avenue & Alberta Street, Vancouver
ONNI Group of Companies, Gilmore Place, Burnaby
Panatch Group, 50 Electronic Avenue, Port Moody
PCI Developments, Broadway & Granville, Vancouver
Polygon Homes, Perla & Onyx, Burnaby
Polygon Homes, Talistar, Richmond
Providence Health Care, New St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
QuadReal, 2950 Prince Edward, Vancouver
Reliance Properties, 1166 West Pender, Vancouver
Reliance Properties + The Jim Pattison Group, Burrard Place, Vancouver
Shape Properties, The City of Lougheed, Burnaby
Shape Properties, The Amazing Brentwood, Burnaby
Thind, Highline, Burnaby
Townline Group of Companies, Sussex, Burnaby
Yuanheng, Viewstar, Richmond

  • People stand around an artwork on the ground plane of a building at UBC at the opening ceremony of lelem

    leləḿ unveiling event at UBC, with work by Susan Point & Summer Cannell (Ground Plane) and Debra Sparrow

  • A man sits beside a bronze sculpture of a plough horse

    Ken Lum with his work The Retired Draft Horse and the Last Pulled Log, Burnaby BC. Photo: Julie MacClellan

  • Two women in hardhats and safety vests stand under a large sculpture of a great blue heron

    Installation of the Great Blue by Jacqueline Metz & Nancy Chew at SEMIAH, Marcon Developments

  • Zhang Huan, Slow, installed at the Parq Vancouver

    Zhang Huan, Slow, installed at the Parq Vancouver

SELECT MASTER PUBLIC ART PLANS

Aspac Developments, River Green Village, Richmond
Beedie Living, Fraser Mills, Coquitlam
Boffo Developments, Bassano, Burnaby
City of Richmond, Capstan Village Plan, Richmond
Concert Properties and Peterson Group, Langara Gardens, Vancouver
District of North Vancouver, Town & Village Centre, North Vancouver
Edgar Development, Portwood, Port Moody

Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver
Holborn Group of Companies, Little Mountain, Vancouver
Low Tide Properties & PCI Developments, Great Northern Way, Vancouver
Musqueam Capital Corporation, leləm̓, University Endowment Lands
Onni Group of Companies, Gilmore Place, Burnaby
Providence Health Care, New St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
Vanprop Investments, Lansdowne, Richmond

EXPERIENCED PUBLIC ART MANAGEMENT

A pink, yellow, blue, and black mural is affixed to the side of a large apartment building in downtown Vancouver

Elizabeth McIntosh
Finger Paint, 2018

Over the years, we have guided hundreds of public art projects to successful completion, including artworks in diverse media including sculpture, murals, light-based works, complex installations of glass, bronze, metalwork, and more.  We have worked with numerous clients and developers across Canada, as well as artists in both the national and international realm, including Douglas Coupland, Susan Point, Alicja Kwade, Dan Graham, Ken Lum, Myfanwy Macleod, and more. 

Our diverse portfolio of current and completed public art includes many notable projects including the New St. Paul's Hospital (Vancouver), Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver), leləḿ (Musqueam Capital Corporation), Lansdowne (Richmond), River Green Village (Richmond), Confederation Park Community Centre (City of Burnaby), The Amazing Brentwood (Burnaby), City of Lougheed (Burnaby), Portwood (Port Moody) and Great Northern Way with PCI and Low Tide. 

For our Public Art Consulting and Management, please contact us to discuss your needs.

  • Red cedar carving of a Bear and Cub by artist Doug LaFortune

    Ben Reeves, detail of original painting for Viewpoint, 2020

  • A group of people stands outside of Emily Carr University. On the wall is a large LED screen showing a red and blue coloured art film by Barry Doupe.

    Barry Doupé, Object Poems, Emily Carr University, 2017

  • A black piano in the corner of a living room with a Guido Molinari black and white painting on the left and a black and white Andrew Dadson painting on the right

    Myfanwy Macleod, Cosmos (I am as constant as the northern star), production documentation

SELECT CURRENT PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

  • The Amazing Brentwood

    THE AMAZING BRENTWOOD

    SHAPE Properties
    Burnaby

  • Burrard place building in downtown Vancouver

    BURRARD PLACE

    Reliance + Jim Pattison Group
    Vancouver

  • CF RICHMOND CENTRE

    Cadillac Fairview + SHAPE Properties
    Richmond

  • NEW ST. PAUL'S HOSPITAL

    Providence Health Care
    Vancouver

  • LELEM

    Musqueam Capital Corporation
    Vancouver

  • GILMORE PLACE

    ONNI Group of Companies
    Burnaby

  • PORTWOOD

    Edgar
    Port Moody

  • RIVER GREEN

    ASPAC
    Richmond