The Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park (JRSP) is offering up to three Exploratory Research Residencies for the 2026 Season
The park offers accommodation, a local transport and a food stipend for six nights on Hornby Island. If a proposal warrants it, an applicant may optionally request longer stays of either 9 or 13 nights.
We have reserved accommodation in the following time slots:
Sunday April 26 – May 3, 2026
Sunday May 3 – 10, 2026
Sunday May 10 – 17, 2026
The exploratory research residency is intended for emerging or professional visual artists, choreographer-dancers, musician-composers, writers, art or science communicators, art historians, and curators interested in engaging with the sculpture and ideas of Jeffrey Rubinoff. Residents are invited to study the sculptures, explore Rubinoff’s writings and archives, and experiment within their own practice in response to the park. The goal is to encourage independent inquiry that develops new directions in art, academic research or the public communication of ideas inspired by Rubinoff’s work and thought.
The Residency supports a period of concentrated research and experimentation rather than the production of a completed work. Residents may wish to:
Conduct a focused study of one or more sculpture series or aspects of the landscape design of the park.
Investigate Rubinoff’s book collection, writings, tour transcriptions, and forum commentaries.
Experiment with how their own practice responds to Rubinoff’s approach to sculpture or his concept of art as a source of knowledge.
Continue or initiate research inspired by or departing from any other aspect of Rubinoff’s artwork.
Residents are expected to share their results in a format appropriate to their discipline—through a brief report, photos, or video.
Should the resident be available, they may also be invited to participate, at no cost to them, as a delegate in the Annual Company of Ideas Forum. The event takes place over 3 days mid-June each year – the 2026 Forum is June 15-17th