Birches and Bluffs 2014
Part of the Birch Cliff Community Mural Project
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Bomb Girls
Montreal based graffiti artist OMEN worked in collaboration with StARToronto to create this mural paying homage to the real life Bomb Girls who worked at the Scarborough’s General Engineering Company (GECo) plant in the area during World War II.
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Bellflower
Property owner Lefteris Karagianis worked closely with Mural Routes to continue streetscape improvements to his property at Greenwood and Gerrard. Artist William Lazos was selected through an open call competition to create a contemporary-styled mural that complements and reflects the recent interior renovations of the building.
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Forest of Birch Trees
“Forest of Birch Trees” was painted on panels and is now installed, towering three stories high on the side of Birch Cliff Public School.
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Birch Tree Bell Box
Mural Routes created three new murals in Toronto’s Birch Cliff community in 2013, as part of the Birch Cliff Community Mural Project. The partnership project now totals over a dozen unique birch tree themed murals along Kingston Rd from Warden Avenue to Birchmount Road.
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Welcome to Birch Cliff
“Welcome to Birch Cliff” was designed by Anthony Delacruz and painted by Mural Routes artists and volunteers.
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Faces of Islington
This mural, painted by John Kuna, celebrates the ethnic and cultural character of Islington as it has changed over the last century.
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Taste of Lawrence
(Please note: this mural was removed – 2018)
Spanning 5 separate walls, this mural shows a variety of scenes from the festival that celebrates the energy, culture and people of Wexford Heights neighbourhood -
Rainbow Tunnel
Mural Routes had the opportunity to revitalize Toronto’s iconic rainbow tunnel mural, located just south of Lawrence on the East side of the Don Valley Parkway, on the south entrance of the CN Rail Tunnel and part of the East Don Trail.
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Warden Underpass Mural
This mural acts as a visual representation of Scarborough’s rich history, with the Scarborough Bluffs and Elizabeth Simcoe both being featured.
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Little Gem
2nd mural painted in the Birch Cliff Community Mural Project. Lead artist, Tara Dorey. Assisted by summer students.
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Bricks and Wagons
Neighbourhood storeowners and residents, led by property owner Lefteris Karagianis, wanted to make a positive change in the Greenwood/Gerrard area of east Toronto, and felt that a public art project would demonstrate the artistic potential of the community.
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Tudor Birch Grove
Tudor Birch Grove, painted by Sarah Collard and assisted by Meaghann MacLeod in September 2012
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Giant Birch Tree
This was the first mural in the Birch Cliff Community Mural project, in a partnership with residents of Birch Cliff and Mural Routes.
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Puzzle
The concept of the ‘Puzzle Mural’ was developed by artist Elaine Teguibon as part of an independent study project for the Leadership Training in Mural Making program 2011. Elaine writes in her proposal “The Jigsaw puzzle represents the importance of creating the right links between people, communities and organizations ….A puzzle is a challenge, but there is a solution.”
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Fishing in Mimico Creek
This mural completes the Children at Play trilogy also present on Riding the Radials at 5110 and on Toboggan Hill at 5112 Dundas W.
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Battersby’s March, 1813
Commissioned by the Islington BIA and painted by John Kuna to commemorate the Bicentennial of the War of 1812, the mural features the three Canadian units that participated in the march: the 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot, the Glengarry Light Infantry Fencible Regiment, and Les Voltigeurs Canadiens.
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The Mayors of Pembroke: A Portrait Gallery (1877-2014)
“The Mayors of Pembroke – A Portrait Gallery 1858-2014” features portraits of the 45 mayors who have served the community over the years from the community’s founding to 2014.
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Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is based on the themes of change and transformation, bringing positivity to the entrance of the community centre.
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Intersections
This mural, entitled “Intersections,” was created by student artists as part of a youth summer training initiative run by Mural Routes. The artwork represents the intersection between fantasy and reality, depicting harmony between the faces of young people and their community at the junction of two roads.
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Toboggan Hill
This mural, painted by John Kuna, shows children tobogganing on the hill behind Montgomery’s Inn in fresh snowfall.
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Almonds and Wine
Ceramic artist Cristina Delago worked for five months using a base of cement panels and a mix of porcelain tiles, glass and handcrafted porcelain pieces to depict frames from Arnie Lipsey’s animated film in the colourful mosaic.
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The Bridging Project
Artist Rob Matejka mentored a team of youth and community members to create a mural spanning the north side of the bridge (871 feet or 266 metres) that represents the paths taken by community members and wildlife indigenous to the area.
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Trace
Before his engagement as keynote speaker at the 12th National Mural Symposium in Midland Ontario, Berlin-based artist Hand offered to leave a gift to Toronto in the form of an outdoor public art mural. Trace is one of the artist’s series of anonymous public portraits – his first in Canada.
