View the 4 Design Concepts under consideration for the Bathurst Street retaining wall (running on the West Side south from Burnside Drive) at Wychwood Barns on Wednesday June 10 between 5 pm and 7 pm.
Artists will be in attendance to present their design concepts and answer questions. Members of the public are welcome and encouraged to meet the Artists, learn more about their designs and share feedback.
Your feedback will be shared with the Jam on Bathurst Mural Project Advisory Panel and will be one of several factors that will help inform their design selections. A feedback Survey is available until June 18th HERE
The Advisory Panel for this project co-created the themes and guiding principles. Shortlisted artists were selected by an external Advisory Panel from a curated list of StART artists who are technically qualified to work at this scale.
The Bathurst Street retaining wall mural site traces an ancient travel route shaped by water, land, Indigenous Presence, and movement. With its genesis in the receding waters of Lake Iroquois, which 10,000 years ago preceded today’s Lake Ontario, natural and climatic evolution has led to the layered histories of forest, shoreline, and passage that continue to inform the site today. The mural should express velocity and momentum as forces shaping both landscape and experience, the surge of water, the pull of the hill, and the persistence of roots. Without depicting human figures, artists may evoke embodied movement through forms that suggest ascent, exertion, flow, and resilience. Medicine plants, trees, and trails can appear as carriers of knowledge and continuity. The work should honour the deep history of the land while acknowledging its ongoing transformation, inviting reflection and repeated discovery.
Above all, the mural must convey beauty, humility, and respect, offering a contemporary response that connects past and present. Artists are encouraged to interpret themes of movement, pause, and connection to land and nature in abstract or expressive ways.
See you at Wychwood Barns Wednesday Night,
