City unveils public art along Confederation Line LRT stations

The City of Ottawa is spending more than $7 million on art at 13 LRT stations along the Confederation Line.

It is now givingOttawans a sneak peek at what wewill be getting for that public money.

Each station will feature unique designs from different Canadian artists, along with elements linking the stations, including the red "O" that's become the transit system'strademark.

All images are provided by the City of Ottawa.

Tunney's Pasture

Cost: $495,000

The station located at Scott Street and Holland Avenue will feature two large glass mosaic wall murals with colour gradation on both sides of the platform, along with a skylight. The piece titled Gradient Space by Vancouver artist Derek Root is expected to give a "sense of movement and energy" to the terminal, according to a release from the city.

Bayview Station

Cost:$495,000 and $200,000

The stationlinks the Trillium Line to the Confederation Line and features anintegrated piece calledAs the Crow Flies by Ottawa artist Adrian Gllnerand made with tubular steel and fencing. It touches on the history of the Ottawa-Gatineau area with a 120-metre line drawing with a silhouette of the Gatineau Hills and Mechanicsville architecture, along with the Canadian War Museum, the Supreme Court and Terrasses de la Chaudire Complex.And of course, it feature's a crow's flight line.

Outside the station, Cascades (shown here)by Toronto artist Pierre Poussin, celebrates ChaudireFalls as an an important spiritual, cultural and trading hub for indigenous peoples.

Pimisi Station

Cost: $740,000 and$296,000

The Anishinabe culture will be central to the art at the station situated at the Booth Street Bridge.

Pimisi which means "eel" in the Algonquin languagehas a sacred significance in the culture. The stationwill feature indoor and outdoor artwork created by five Algonquin artists (Simon Brascoup of Ottawa; Emily Brascoup-Hoefler of Ottawa;Sherry-Ann Rodgers of Gatineau; Doreen Stevens of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, Que.; andSylvia Tennisco of Pikwkanagn, Ont.

Montreal artist Nadia Myre's work expressesthe Algonquin relationship to the earthwith an eight-metre tall chromed eel, a three-metre split-ash woven basket and a row of birch trees made of tinted glazed panels.

One hundred hand-painted paddles forming a canoe, a 3.7-metre tall moose and Algonquin birch bark biting window designs will be situated around and inside the station.

Lyon Station

Cost:$595,000 and $200,000

Two artworks take over the underground downtown station.

With Words as Their Actionsdepictsthe 32 women who founded the Ottawa chapter of the Women's Canadian Historical Society in 1898 and member Anne Dewar's story of the transition of Bytown to Canada's capital cut into stainless steel will be the focus of the station's concourse. The piece was designed by a team from Toronto-based PLANT Architect.

AndCalgary artistGeoffMcFetridge'spaintingThis Image Relies on Positive Thinkingrepresents avision of contemporary life and vibrancyin a city.

Parliament Station

Cost:$595,000 and $200,000

Vancouver-based artist and author Douglas Coupland's piece will showcase Canada's provinces with deconstructed flags along the wall descending into the station.

AndTrails: home and awayby New Brunswick-based artist Jennifer Stead willbring an image of nature to anotherwise barren concrete wall with laser-cut painted steel panels depicting plants from coast to coast to coast .

Rideau Station

Cost:$595,000 and $200,000

A gallery theme takes form at the downtown station with Montreal-based artist Genevive Cadieux's FLOW drawing on Canada's northern beautyand the proximity to the Rideau Canal.

A second piece takes a page from an architectural blueprint. Toronto artist Jim Verburg'swith his work entitledThe shape this takes to get to that (the grid, its daily interruption, and the possible options that exist).

uOttawa

Cost: $200,000 and $200,000

Black-and-white portraits with gazes that follow you through the station make up Train of Thought by Calgary artist Michael Besant, while Ottawa artist Kenneth Emig's two-metre tall cube Sphere Field uses mirrors and glass to represent change.

Lees Station

Cost: $295,000

Hurdman Station

Cost:$495,000

Nature and the man-made world combine in Coordinated Movement by Vancouver artist Jill Anholt's piece that uses painted metal hanging from the walls depicting the flight patterns of birds.

Tremblay Station

Cost: $345,000

The provinces are linked at this station with the silhouettes of their official flowers posted on mirrored finish stainless steel panels placed on the underside of a glass ceiling over the walkway to the VIA Rail station in Toronto artist's Jyhling Lee's National Garden.

St. Laurent Station

Cost: $345,000

Re-imagined Canadian histories will make up three large untitled murals along the station's westbound platform and corner of the eastbound platform from Chelsea, Que. artist Andrew Morrow.

Cyrville Station

Cost:$295,000

The Stand of Birchby Kingston artist DonMaynard includes13stainless steel birch trees surrounded by prairie grasses that will sit on the north side of the station.

"For thousands of years, indigenous peoples have used the bark from birch trees to build their canoes,"Maynardwrites in the news release."They travelled on the Gatineau, Rideau and Ottawa rivers to trade, hunt and meet with family and friends. Things have not changed much."

Blair Station

Cost: $495,000