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Canada Manitoba Photo Galleries Winnipeg artist's sculpture going to Vancouver Biennale Bird Wrap by Ivan Eyre will be installed at Thornton Park until July 2016 CBC News Posted: May 02, 2014 3:52 PM CT | Last Updated: May 02, 2014 3:52 PM CT

A bronze sculpture by Winnipeg artist Ivan Eyre will be installed at a Stay Connected with CBC News Related Stories Vancouver park this month as part of the 2014 Vancouver Biennale, a ■ Winnipeg sculptor celebration of art in public spaces. donates work to Mobile Facebook Podcasts Twitter Alerts Newsletter McMichael Bird Wrap, Eyre's 2.4-metre sculpture of a kneeling "mythical bird man," is being transported to Vancouver, where it will take up residence at Thornton Park until July 2016.

The sculpture will be the first major work to be installed in the latest Biennale, according to organizers.

Eyre is a painter and sculptor who taught at the University of Manitoba until his retirement in 1993.

He has had numerous solo shows since 1962 and his work is Latest Manitoba News Headlines collected throughout Canada. Nine of his ■ Thomas Steen back at city hall following arrest works are in a sculpture garden that opened in July 2011 at the Bird Wrap, a bronze sculpture by Ivan Eyre, is show n at a McMichael Canadian sculpture garden that opened in July 2011 at the McMichael ■ UN report critical of Canada’s treatment of First Nations Art Collection in Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ont. (Submitted by Loch Gallery) Kleinberg, Ont. ■ Blue Bombers fumble on field but score big revenues anyway "For me, the motivation to sculpt or paint is fundamental in itself in going ■ Winnipeg Beach opens new art gallery for town's forward in search of perfection, meaning and uniqueness," Eyre stated in centennial a news release. ■ True North takes over Burton Cummings Theatre in Artists from 25 countries and four continents have taken part in the Winnipeg Vancouver Biennale. This year marks its third anniversary.

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