The Premier's new desk

Arthur Vickers spent 42 months building bentwood-box lookalike

The artist Arthur Vickers has created what he calls the Leadership Desk in the form of a large bentwood box. He has painted figures from native iconography on all sides of what is a breathtaking, one-of-a-kind piece.

Globe and Mail:
Gordon Campbell's desk a thing of beauty 


The Beat Volume 3, Issue 11 November 2009:

Tsimshian artist Arthur Vickers has carved a fine Leadership Desk for the office of the Premier of British Columbia, presented on October 28. The desk was created without drawers, in the form of a bent box, its top a lid. The outside front of the cedar desk is painted with a young eagle, and on the other side, male and female humans with arms outstretched, representing the current generation of British Columbians. The side panels depict a future generation awaiting birth.
Like his brother Roy Vickers, Arthur Vickers has a studio and art gallery on Vancouver Island. Arthur Vickers’ Shipyard gallery is in Cowichan Bay. For an image and more of the story, see
http://www.vancouversun.com/Native+artist+designs+premier+desk/2157574/story.html 

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