Victoria International's art program currently consists of a permanent collection and on occassion special exhibits. In December 2006, the Victoria Airport Authority launched the rotating art component of the program.

ROBERT WISE
Title: Roulette (2005)
Location: Arrivals Rotunda

This tensegrity structure has 20 faces,30 struts made of light gathering acrylic tubes and 90 stainless steel turnbuckles connected to aircraft cable radiating from the aluminum core. The shape is truly intriguing when the viewer realizes that none of the acrylic tubes are touching. The structure is attached to a graphite pole that is connected to a wind vane on the roof to create its movement.

The artist wanted the piece to represent a system in dynamic equilibrium. A large simple object that moves in a seemingly random weightless way - to be caught in the peripheral vision of people waiting below. The awareness of the huge object gently moving at the edge of someone's vision might cause a lapse for a second or two, a pause for reflection - Robert Wise thinks that that's what art should do.

Over the past decade Robert Wise has established himself as a unique figure with West Coast sculpture through the production of mechanically sophisticated machines.

LINDA STANBRIDGE
Title: Genesis (2002)
Location: Lower Passenger Departure Lounge

The impetus behind the idea for the artwork "Genesis" is the celebration of the harmonic structure found in nature. Linda Stanbridge has chosen the seashell to represent the harmonic proportions reflected in growth patterns evident in the world of plant and human life. The spiral form of the shell is mirrored in the shape of galaxies, the swirling patterns of weather, and even in the structure of the universe itself. The geometry of the shell as well as being universal is also very particular to our geographic location, our island on the West Coast and the area surrounding Victoria.

Linda Stanbridge was born in Glasgow Scotland and presently lives and works in Victoria, British Columbia. She exhibits her work both nationally and internationally and is represented in numerous public and private collections in Canada the U.S. and Europe. Her art practice has grown out of an interest in geometric structures and the dynamics of optics as experienced by the viewer.

THOMAS MERCER & EDWARD SCHAEFER
Title: Airplay (2006)
Location: Interior Departures Area

A series of hand-blown stained glass panels along the length of the interior glass wall of the departures check-in area.

Thomas Mercer and Edward Schaefer are becoming increasingly internationally renowned for their exquisite stained glass artwork. Other works include 36 windows in the BC Government House Ballroom and a gift to the Queen of the Queen's Golden Jubilee stained glass window in the Legislature which was unveiled during the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh's visit to Victoria, BC in 2002.

ILLARION GALLANT
Title: Bouquet of Memories (2006)
Location: Exterior Departures Area

Brightly coloured aluminum and steel scuplture situated across the frontal road from the departures area. The sculpture really is a bouquet of memories as Gallant invited all students and staff of his neighbourhood school to write a paragraph of their favourite memory. The collection of memories is sealed in a capsule inside the seedpod of one of the colourful poppies in the sculpture.

Illarion Gallant's art projects abroad include works in Austria and Germany. Here his works are many and include the aluminum tree scuplture at the Fort Street Medical Building, the Granite Avacados at the Grand Pacific Hotel, and in Toronto, a tribute to Tom Thomson's canoe in aluminum complete with 76 - 6' aluminum reeds.