Machine Artifact: Rings

About Machine Artifact: Rings

This contemporary wall sculpture by Rod Mireau is made of black wood and resin.

Growing up in farm country, early images of broken machinery and wooden farm buildings set against prairie wheat fields fired the imagination of Rod Mireau.
The themes and forms of his eclectic sculptural work have re-imagined those childhood images. A masterful sculptor and wood worker, Mireau has created a series of wall sculptures that are reminiscent of objects found on a farm.
These four black coiled wooden oval rings are mounted in a dramatic horizontal pattern. Each ring component measures 12 H x 4 W x 7 D inches.

(I create) “forms on the edge of recognition, forms that conjure a space between fact and fiction, past and present.” Rod Mireau

Rod Mireau was born in Saskatchewan (1971). Mireau studied sculpture at Ontario College of Art and Design (1993 – 1997). He has exhibited in New York and across Ontario with a 2018 solo exhibition at The Art Gallery of Peterborough. Mireau received an Ontario Arts Grant in 2006 and the Award of Excellence at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition in 2008. He creates commissioned work for both public and commercial spaces. Mireau’s work is held in private and corporate collections in Canada, the USA, Germany and the United Arab Emirates.