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Vancouver Art Gallery commissions new Robert Davidson sculpture

Robert Davidson is being commissioned to create a major wall-mounted wood sculpture for the Vancouver Art Gallery's exhibition during the 2010 Olympics.The work will be painted in the Haida formline style depicting the transformation of a killer whale into a thunderbird.Expected to be about 2 metres by 3.5 metres in size, the cedar carving will have flexible panels that reveal the killer whale when closed and the thunderbird when open.The Vancouver Art Gallery received $207,000 to commission Mr. Davidson to do the work from Arts Partners in Creative Development.The sculpture will become a showpiece in the new Vancouver Art Gallery space being planned in Yaletown.