Maura Doyle

Gone: Removed Public Art in Ottawa/Unceded Anishinaabeg (Algonquin) Territory (2018)
Gone is an artist publication—a fold-out poster/map that maps out the ghost locations of now-disappeared public art. For the launch of the publication, I presented (with the Ottawa Art Gallery) a to-scale projection of a well-known public sculpture that once sat in the city’s Confederation Park. Traffic (1969) by Ed Zelenak, was a controversial work of “plop-art” that received national media attention as a waste of public funding.

Research was done at Ottawa’s city and federal archives. Co-designed with designer Frederique Gagnon. Commissioned by the Ottawa Art Gallery for the exhibition Àdisòkàmagan / Nous connaître un peu nous-mêmes / We’ll all become stories (2018).

Available to purchase online with Gallerie Axeneo7.

Gone publication, double sided map, offset printed, edition of 3000, 35.5 x 26.5”, 2018.

"Gone" distribution sculpture is topped with a bronze replica of public artwork "Traffic" by Ed Zelenak (1969). Images show "Traffic" in Confederation Park, courtesy of National Gallery of Canada.

Ghost projection of Ed Zelenak's "Traffic" (1969), Ottawa Art Gallery, 2018