Joe Farad

Obilix, 2001

1452 McGill Road, Kamloops

After a much-needed makeover, artist Joe Fafard’s iconic bronze bull sculpture, Obilix, is making his public return. In the Collection of the Kamloops Art Gallery (KAG), locals may recognize Obilix from his years residing at the entrance of Riverside Park near the Rotary Bandshell. In 2022 the City of Kamloops and the KAG removed the bull for restoration work after repeated acts of vandalism.

Vera Frenkel // Yves Gaucher // Rita Letendre // Guido Molinari // Gordon Smith // Joyce Wieland

Various Works

Art in the Hospital
311 Columbia Street, Kamloops

In 2010 The Kamloops Art Gallery created an outreach program in conjunction with Royal Inland Hospital and Friends Kamloops Art Gallery called the “Art in the Hospital” Program.  The Gallery selected contemporary art works in its collection that were acquired from the Canada Council Art Bank to install throughout the hospital. This program was an opportunity to place original works of art in public spaces and to enhance patient well-being in a typically ‘sterile’ hospital environment. The Art in the Hospital artworks include prints by well-known Canadian artists, including Vera Frenkel, Yves Gaucher, Rita Letendre, Guido Molinari, Gordon Smith and Joyce Wieland. The Gallery is currently working with the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation to develop a permanent collection of artworks to be installed in the newly built Patient Care Tower, adjacent to the current hospital.

Claude Tousignant

Ovale, 1969

805 TRU Way, Kamloops

Tousignant’s work is represented in major museum collections across Canada. This painting was previously shown at the National Gallery of Canada in 1973 and represents an important movement in the history of Canadian art. This work was acquired by the Kamloops Art Gallery in 2014 as a gift from the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.  It is currently on loan to Thompson Rivers University (TRU) where it is installed in proximity to the Visual and Performing Arts Department. By exhibiting this work in a busy building on TRU’s campus, the Gallery endeavors to inspire young art students in their own work and to share this work with a broader public.

Cameron Kerr

Freud’s Ceiling, 2012

910 McGill Rd, Kamloops

Commissioned by the City of Vancouver to celebrate the City’s 125th anniversary, Freud’s Ceiling is part of a body of work that emerged from Vancouver-based artist Cameron Kerr’s research into diverse fields of inquiry, including art history, modernist architecture, iconography in the built and cultural environment, as well as biology and psychology.