These include fountains, sculptural landmarks for world fairs and civic parks, towers, murals, carillons and site-specific pieces for business, donor recognition, industry government and private collectors.Ī winner of numerous awards and medals including allied arts awards from both The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Ontario Association of Architects for his work. He has completed more than 150 public commissions with a variety of inventive concepts. Some pieces also include electronics, electronic sound, interactive elements or incorporate programmed light sources. Often his work has imaginative elements that move in the wind, are light-responsive or make sounds. Ron Baird, RCA, AOCA, has been regularly commissioned to create large-scale, site-specific sculpture installations across Canada and abroad for more than 40 years. The resulting work draws the link between mythological concepts and scientific reality- and the places where they are one and the same. Sellers, who provided the background knowledge on specific scientific concepts, formulae, and symbols. The other images are cut out of the metal and include stylized symbols of a cell membrane G protein (the target of many pharmacological studies), and the Egyptian hieroglyph for fruit fly- a significant research subject for those working in the field of genetics.īaird worked with medical researcher and CEO of DecisionLine Clinical Research Corporation, Dr. The central image, sandblasted into stainless steel, is adapted from an Assyrian painting depicting the Water God surrounded by water molecules. Baird calls his work “a wall of historic graffiti,” using both contemporary and ancient symbols from around the world.

Artist Ron Baird drew inspiration from the world of science- biology, medicine, environmental and agri-food science - when composing the imagery for the artwork.īioglyphs is a metal column with laser-cut symbols from ancient mythology and science. The BBDC is a research park with laboratory space and offices for companies conducting scientific research in medicine, biotechnology, electronics, telecommunications, software, petroleum research and cold-climate engineering. In the case of Bioglyphs by Ron Baird, the intersection between art and science has created a work that is very meaningful to the place where it has been installed: the Biotechnology Business Development Centre.

Some projects lend themselves to some fascinating collaborations and the discovery that art and other disciplines have more in common than we think.

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