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
The JRSP has recently developed a new strategic plan emphasizing the continued evolution of the park as a space for discovery of art as a source of knowledge, for the pursuit of artistic excellence, and for the celebration of creative innovation.
Plastic : Elastic — Film Trailer
Filmed at the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park on Hornby Island, Plastic : Elastic brings together movement artist Zoe Jordan, filmmaker Anandi Brownstein, music by Trent Freeman, and the sculptures of Jeffrey Rubinoff. Through movement, netting, fabric, and string, Jordan explores the interplay of positive and negative space, creating a shifting relationship between her body and the steel sculptures.
2027 Jeffrey Rubinoff Postdoctoral Award
Applications are now open. The CAD $7,000 award supports scholarly research on Art and Knowledge.
Application deadline: December 1, 2026, at 23:59 Pacific Time.
2026 Summer Newsletter Now Available
The Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park’s Summer 2026 Events newsletter is now available, with details on this season’s openings, concerts, artist-scholar residency presentation, premieres, and exhibitions.
Aaron Richmond: 2026 Artist-Scholar Residency
2026 UVic–JRSP Artist-Scholar Residency
Aaron Richmond reflects on his 2026 UVic–JRSP Artist-Scholar Residency and his work with the park as a living archive.
Audience Researchers
Audience-Researcher Reflections
Four audience-researchers reflect on taking part in Gaia – Theatre of Fire, sharing their experiences of the music, community participation, and the Sculpture Park.
World Premiere: Island Portraits: Cuban Scenes
World Premiere
The Borealis String Quartet performs the world premiere of Victor García’s new work, inspired by Cuban cinquillo and conga rhythms. The premiere closes the July 24 concert.
Friday, July 24
Concert at 12 pm
World premiere during the concert finale
The Amphitheatre
Park open from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm
Masters of Counterpoint
Borealis Residency
The Borealis String Quartet presents two outdoor concerts. The programmes include Janáček, Pärt, Shostakovich and Piazzolla, along with the world premiere of Victor García’s Island Portraits: Cuban Scenes.
Tuesday, July 21 and Friday, July 24
Events at 12 pm
The Amphitheatre
Park open from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm
Gaia: Theatre of Fire
Inaugural Borealis Lab
Composer Paul Alexander joins the Borealis String Quartet, percussionist Boris Sichon and audience volunteers for a performance combining strings, percussion, Peruvian whistling vessels and natural sounds inside the Barn.
Thursday, July 23
Event at 8 pm
The Barn
Park open from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Limited seating
Plastic : Elastic
Watch the trailer
Plastic Elastic is a creative collaboration between movement artist Zoe Jordan, filmmaker Anandi Brownstein, musician Trent Freeman, and sculptor Jeffrey Rubinoff.
Timberline Students Launch Sculpture Garden Inspired by JRSP
Educator Awardee Story
Timberline Secondary School has unveiled Cresent Moon Wolf, its first student-created sculpture, developed by students Summer Knowles and Bella Lee through the school’s art metal program.
The project grew from the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park Educator’s Award given to Steve Joyce, supporting physical arts at Timberline and extending the school’s long relationship with the Park into a student-led sculpture garden initiative.
With mentorship from teacher Stephen Johnston, the students moved from design to steel, plasma cutting, and welding, connecting classroom practice with the Park’s broader commitment to Art as a Source of Knowledge.
First Annual Report Now Available
The Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park has published its first Annual Report.
The report provides a record of the Park’s recent activities, public programming, educational work, and ongoing stewardship of Jeffrey Rubinoff’s artistic legacy.
Dr. Vid Simoniti Appointed Director of Educational Programmes
Dr. Vid Simoniti has been appointed Director of Educational Programmes at the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park.
Dr. Simoniti is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, where he directs
the MA in Art, Philosophy and Cultural Institutions. His scholarship explores how artworks
generate, challenge, and transform knowledge, with a particular focus on socially engaged
practice, conceptual art, and art’s relationship to climate change.
As Director of the JRSP Educational Programme, Dr. Simoniti will lead the Park’s mission to establish Art as a Source of Knowledge as a recognized field of scholarly inquiry.
His role includes convening the Company of Ideas Forums, editing the Art & Knowledge series with Manchester University Press, and building an educational programme that brings together artists, philosophers, and art historians.The JRSP also recognizes Dr. James Fox, Educational Programme Director Emeritus, for his foundational role in developing the JRSP Educational Programme, including the Company of Ideas Forums, the JRSP Postdoctoral Award Program, and the Park’s major publication series on Art and Knowledge.
Winners of JRSP Exploratory Research Residency Award
Katriina Campitelli
Katriina will explore the theme of Anti Digital Environments: Reclaiming Attention in a Sculptural Landscape.
Elisa Thorn
Elisa will investigate how sculptural form can serve as a generative framework for musical composition.
Prof. J. Sage Elwell
Prof. J. Sage Elwell will use the park as a living laboratory to test secular humanism with Rubinoff’s work.
For her residency, Katriina will explore the theme of Anti Digital Environments: Reclaiming Attention in a Sculptural Landscape. She will aim to investigate how the experience of art changes when it is encountered outside digital mediation, and in what ways can curatorial practice safeguard and deepen those unmediated encounters? Utilizing analog, place-based art experiences to counteract digital saturation and restore sensory presence, she will examine how the JRSP functions as an “attention sanctuary,” exploring how the sculptures interact with natural rhythms such as light, weather, and sound.
During my residency, I will investigate how sculptural form can serve as a generative framework for musical composition. Using selected sculptures as source material, I will create new works for harp, voice, and electronics, translating their shapes and spatial qualities into melodic, rhythmic, and textural structures across multiple scales. This project extends my ongoing interdisciplinary practice by engaging directly with three-dimensional form, developing a compositional methodology that treats sculpture as an active structural agent. In dialogue with Jeffrey Rubinoff’s ideas about the relationship between music and sculpture, this research explores form as something experienced over time, fostering a dynamic exchange between visual and sonic expression.
During my week at the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park, I will use the park as a living laboratory to test how a grotesque (grotto-esque), embodied, pan/theological humanism can enter into conversation with Rubinoff’s secular humanism, his conviction that art is an act of conscience, and his concern with cultural and civilizational endgames. Moving intentionally through the sculptures, series, pathways, vistas, weather, and archives, I will draw, photograph, write, diagram, and sculpt clay maquettes in order to discover how vulnerable, disabled, mortal forms might inhabit the sculptural landscape on Hornby Island without lapsing into heroic monumentality. The residency is thus both visual and philosophical research. It is an opportunity to bring Rubinoff’s metal landscape, conscience, and endgame-thinking into conversation (tension?) with my own work on AI, embodiment, risk, disability, and human making while endeavoring to create the first concrete studies for an illustrated essay and new sculptural series. At the end of my Exploratory Research Residency my aim is to leave the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park with a nascent sculptural series and a clear, energizing thesis: large-scale materially demanding sculpture can still train our conscience and keep the human beautifully, stubbornly grotesque in an AI age that prefers the disembodied and optimized.
JRSP 2026 Postdoctoral Award Winner - Anna O'Meara
Anna O’Meara’s research explores the origins of artificial intelligence within the humanities through the cybernetic theories of Abraham Moles. Focusing on Strasbourg in the 1960s, her work examines how early experiments in automated art and networked systems reshaped ideas about creativity, language, and environment.
RUBINOFF COLLECTION OVERVIEW
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