Installation of Dame Elisabeth Frink’s Mirage Bird on Campus
November 26, 2013
Last week, the Museum permanently installed one of its treasures on the campus lawn, Dame Elisabeth Frink’s 1967 cast aluminum sculpture, Mirage Bird. More details about it in the McMaster Daily News Story. For the blog, we thought you might enjoy some shots of the installation in progress.
Many thanks to the professionals whose expertise made this undertaking go so very smoothly:
Bravo Cement Contracting Inc. for the base
Alexander Gabov and assistant B. Webster from Conservation of Sculptures, Monuments and Objects based in Kingston
– Matt Walker
Art as the Fifth Pillar of Health: Patricia Bovey to Deliver Keynote Lecture
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Fall 2026 Exhibitions at the McMaster Museum of Art
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Connected Histories, Research, and Archives—Interview with Nnamdi Nnake
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What stories can the telegraph tell? More than a century after telegraph lines began to stretch across Nigeria, Connected Histories: The Telegraph in Nigeria invites visitors to take a fresh look at a technology that helped shape modern communications, colonial governance, labour, and everyday life. Drawing on the doctoral research of McMaster University PhD candidate Nnamdi Nnake, the exhibition brings together rare artifacts, archival […]
