A large, abstract sculpture in an orange-pink hue stands against a textured gray concrete wall. The sculpture features various rounded and cylindrical shapes, with a prominent vertical element at the top and wider forms at the base. The ground below the sculpture consists of concrete steps leading up to it. The sky above is predominantly blue with a few clouds.

Peter Hide, North Face, 1989–1990. Welded steel, stain, varnish. SFU Art Collection. Gift of David M. Campbell, 1982.

A large, abstract sculpture in an orange-pink hue stands against a textured gray concrete wall. The sculpture features various rounded and cylindrical shapes, with a prominent vertical element at the top and wider forms at the base. The ground below the sculpture consists of concrete steps leading up to it. The sky above is predominantly blue with a few clouds.

Title

North Face

Artist

Peter Hide

Year

1989

Medium

Welded steel, stain, varnish

Collection

SFU Art Collection

Donor

Gift of David M. Campbell

Year Acquired

1982

North Face by Peter Hide is a large, welded steel sculpture installed in the courtyard of West Mall Centre on SFU’s Burnaby campus.  

Artists

Born in Surrey, England, Hide (1944–) undertook studies at the Crodon College of Art and St Martin’s School of Art, where he was a pupil of Anthony Caro, before relocating to Edmonton in 1977 to teach at the University of Alberta. Working in the modernist tradition of welding scrap steel, his works are distinguished by their emphasis on weight, mass and monumental vertical form. Hide’s work can be found in the collections of the Edmonton Art Gallery, Glenbow Institute (Calgary, AB), MacDonald Stewart Art Centre (Guelph, ON), Agnes Etherington Art Gallery (Kingston, ON), Kitchener Art Gallery, and the Tate Gallery (London, UK).