More than thirty years in the making, the 200-acre Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park is home to over a hundred steel sculptures – artist Jeffrey Rubinoff’s life’s work.
“The purpose of Rubinoff’s work is to rekindle the historical spirit of modernism. In addition to viewing that work which includes the Sculpture Park itself, the goal is to revive the interdisciplinary creative impetus of early modernism and to attain the understanding of art as a serious and a credible source of special insight for the evolution of ideas.” Jeffrey Rubinoff
Register Now for Kokoro Dance Workshop – Jul 22 1:30 - 4:00pm
A primary distinguishing feature of butoh practice is the use of imagery to motivate and inform movement choices. While butoh is a highly individual expression of dance, the commonality in butoh practice is the intense concentration and focus on the body as a receptacle of memories embedded in our skin and bones. We are all unique individuals, but our individuality has been buried through years of servitude to conformity. We need to rediscover who we are, and the use of imagery allows individual responses that are keys to reintegrating our identities.
Butoh training concentrates on the integration of mind, body, and spirit. Also, in butoh, there is more attention paid to the space between events instead of just to the events themselves. The Japanese call this concept ma and it allows time to contemplate dance during the dance itself rather than having to digest ceaseless movement afterwards. Butoh stretches time and space through changing one’s own sense of time and space.
The workshop begins with an investigation of one’s butoh body where each part of the body is viewed poetically rather than anatomically. From there, we will discover how a butoh dancer walks, a journey that begins the stretching of time and space. Building on this foundation of butoh practice, the workshop then explores how imagery is translated into choreography.
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Siobhan Humston selected for 2025 University of Victoria - JRSP Artist joint Artist-Scholar Residency
The University of Victoria (UVic), in partnership with the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park (JRSP) has selected Canadian artist Siobhan Humston as the inaugural recipient of the University of Victoria and Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park Artist-Scholar Residency for 2025-2026. 57 artists applied for the six-week residency to be held annually at the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park on Hornby Island, followed by a week at UVic. After Humston’s residency, she will present an exhibit of the work and offer a public talk in October 2025 at UVic.
“Jeffrey Rubinoff held that art was an existential necessity — an expression of mature conscience, evoking our innate sense of the sacred and the sublime. Far from diminishing individual conscience, such art elevates and inspires it,” says Karun Koernig, Curator of the Rubinoff Sculpture Park. “Humston’s work exemplifies this vision, quietly co-mingling distinct form-worlds — the natural and the human. In her hands, everyday materials sourced from the land sublimate into visual poetry. Particularly compelling for us was Humston’s ambition to integrate a soundscape into her residency, resonating deeply with Rubinoff’s profound connection to music.” Click here for more information about Siobhan Humston.
Florentine R. Muhry Winner of the 2025 JRSP Post Doctoral Award
Florentine R. Muhry is a PhD candidate in art history at the German Research Training Group “Aesthetic Practice” at the University of Hildesheim. Her dissertation examines the role of historiography in the aesthetic practice of Rasheed Araeen between 1968 and 1990. She studied history and art history at the University of Vienna, the Sorbonne-Paris IV, and the University of Graz and worked as a curator and assistant in independent and national art institutions, such as www.muhry.com or the Kunstsammlung NRW. Influenced by her curatorial practice, she is interested in the art field, whether in exhibitions or academic teaching, as an agonistic space, where social debates can be tested and shaped. Her research focuses on art history, postcolonial theory, and black studies, with a particular interest in anti-racist art historiography. Follow this link for more information on Florentine Muhry’s work.
Post Doctoral | Residency | Educator Awards
2026 The University of Victoria – JRSP Artist Scholar Residency – Call open Fall 2025
This award is to supports artists and scholars to create a work for exhibition or publication that is in some way informed by their investigation of Jeffrey Rubinoff’s work and their experience working at the sculpture park.
Spanning 2–6 weeks on Hornby Island, BC, and a week at UVic, the residency includes: access to park facilities, travel, office and studio space, a $5,000 stipend, and a suite of covered expenses. Awardees must submit a project plan for the eventual exhibition, publication, or performance of their work, engage with students and faculty at Uvic. Eligibility is based on professional or scholarly achievements in the arts. More information can be found on the Residency website of follow this link to apply. Click here for a printable JRSP Artist Residency Description. Applications due February 5th, 2025, and are reviewed by March 2025.
2026 Rubinoff Post-Doctoral Award for Research in Art as A Source of Knowledge – Call open Fall 2025
Aimed at early career researchers anywhere in the world, Postdoctoral Awards offer $7,000 CAD (roughly $5,100 USD or £4,100) to support research leading to one or more publications on any subject relating to art and knowledge. Themes might include but are not limited to the connections between visual art and cognition/understanding; digital technology and artificial intelligence; ethical/political issues; other fields of knowledge; and the sacred or numinous. To apply, download the Postdoctoral Awards 2024 Application.
2025 Educators Support Awards – Open
The Park will support applications by suitably qualified educators for financial support to visit to the park with the purpose of developing a workshop plan for tailored to a group they regularly convene, teach, or host. Travel subsidies are available as well to offset the costs of travel to Hornby Island for educational groups wishing to tour the park, study the sculpture or undertake other educational events in relation to the sculpture collection. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis and are tailored to the circumstances of the proposal. To inquire please email: curator AT rubinoffsculpturepark.org
RUBINOFF COLLECTION OVERVIEW
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