Campbell River Shuts "Crummy" Gallery

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The crummy is a type of structure used to convey logging and resource workers to sites in BC. In Crummy Gallery, it was hoisted on scaffolding, a material that the Bomfords have often used in the past. (photo courtesy Campbell River Art Gallery)

A temporary public artwork by three B.C. artists — Cedric, Nathan and Jim Bomford — commissioned by the Campbell River Art Gallery on Vancouver Island has been shut down by city staff, Canadian Art reports.

The installation, in the city’s Spirit Square, was called the Crummy Gallery and featured a crummy, a small vehicle that transports loggers to worksites. 

Campbell River city staff, citing public safety concerns centred on the scaffolding on which the crummy sat, shut the installation down before it could open in October.

The work and its parallel commission, Rest Area, on view inside the gallery, are intended to question who  has access to public space on Vancouver Island. 

The Bomfords have done similar projects using scaffolding and found materials in other cities.

Source: Canadian Art