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The most beautiful park in the world~ Stanley Park.

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The most beautiful park in the world~ Stanley Park.

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The most beautiful park in the world~ Stanley Park.

Girl in a Wetsuit

Artist(s):

Elek Imredy

Description of Work:

A life size bronze statue of a woman in a wetsuit, with flippers on her feet and her mask pushed up on her forehead, sits on a large intertidal boulder just offshore of Stanley Park. In September of 1968, Douglas Brown, a Vancouver lawyer, talked to sculptor Elek Imredy about his desire to commission a sculpture inspired by the famous Copenhagen mermaid, which could be sited on the great granite boulder just off the northern shore of Stanley Park. Imredy proposed a life-size bronze sculpture of a scuba diver. On Brown's initiative, the Vancouver Harbour Improvement Society was formed with the intention of financing and facilitating a unique landmark for both Vancouverites and visitors to the city. They raised the money to produce the sculpture privately and Imredy was commissioned to craft the proposed work. The Vancouver Park Board gave permission to the society to place the sculpture on the rock. Because the boulder was often covered at high tide, a precast concrete ring was created and the rock was lifted by a floating crane and set on the ring about 100 feet from its original location. Imredy first took a mold of the top surface of the rock. In his studio, he made a replica of the rock and modeled the figure in clay. Imredy asked his young friend Debra Harrington to model, however the sculpture is not recognizably her image. "When I couldn't get the model to hold her hand the way I wanted it... I held my left hand in front of a mirror, showing its opposite, and I modeled right one. Of course, I made it a bit nicer, with longer fingers." A plaster of paris mold was made from the clay figure and the sculpture was cast in fibreglass. This fibreglass figure was flown to Rome where it was cast in bronze at Giovanni and Angelo Nicci's foundry. On June 9th, 1972, the sculpture was set in place by an electric crane reaching out from shore to the rock 8o feet away and fastened to the stone with stainless steel bolts. The next day the sculpture was ceremoniously unveiled. "Girl in Wetsuit" has become a landmark for visitors to Stanley Park and to boats that enter the harbour.

Artist Statement:

"I didn't believe we should have a copy of the mermaid (in Copenhagen harbour). She is rightfully a symbol of Copenhagen... I proposed to have a life-size scuba diver seated there. At that time scuba diving was getting quite popular here in Vancouver and, just as important, I didn't know of any similar sculpture anywhere in the world. It was a new idea… There was tremendous opposition and great controversy. I still don't know why.." (quoted in The Sculpture of Elek Imredy by Terry Nobel (publisher, Vancouver, 1993) "The sculpture (is) a symbolic figure of the future exploration of the continental shelf." (information provided by the artist) "She represents Vancouver's dependence on the sea and the necessity to use the sea for the benefit of all." - Peggy Imredy

Location:
Neighbourhood:	Stanley Park
Site name:	Great Granite Boulder
Address:	Stanley Park
Location on site:	in water, past Brockton Point, N side of Stanley Park
Source/Program:	Gift
Installed:	1972
Primary Materials:	bronze
Type:	Sculpture
Status:	Existing
Ownership:	City of Vancouver
Donor:	Vancouver Harbour Improvement Society
Sponsoring Organization:

The most beautiful park in the world~ Stanley Park.

Empress of Japan

Artist(s):

Unknown

Description of Work:

A heritage monument, this is a fibreglas reproduction of the original figurehead which was installed in 1923 and is now in the Maritime Museum. It commemorates the Empress of Japan which sailed into Vancouver during 1891-1922.

Artist Statement:

The Empress of Japan sailed between Vancouver and the Orient between 1891 and 1922. The original figurehead was saved by the Vancouver Daily Province and presented to the Park Board in 1928. In 1960 the badly deteriorated original was replaced with a fibreglass original . The original is kept at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

Location:
Neighbourhood:	Stanley Park
Site name:
Address:	Stanley Park
Location on site:	by pathway after Brockton Point
Source/Program:
Installed:	1960
Primary Materials:	fibreglass cast
Type:	Artefact
Status:	Existing
Ownership:	City of Vancouver
Donor:
Sponsoring Organization:
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