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Inspired by the newly built Confederation Centre of the Arts, Canadian painter Ronald Bloore offered to create a custom mural to adorn its walls in the early months of 1965. The finished piece, White on White, was finally installed and finished by Bloore during the summer of 1967. Eleven masonite panels that match the shape of the sandstone blocks that make up the structure of the Centre were installed directly under a skylight in the main concourse, a public thoroughfare that is still used as such today. The varying tones of white, coupled with the changing outside light, created a mural that Bloore felt would 鈥渁lways be alive and moving.鈥�

After 36 years, the wear and tear of being on public display, coupled with the need to complete repairs in the concourse saw the Bloore mural removed and placed into storage in April of 2003. Several years of planning will come to a head at the end of October of this year, as the conservation treatment of this sculptural painting takes place in full view of the public as part of the fall exhibition programming. Elizabeth Jablonski, a paintings conservator from Nova Scotia, will head the treatment process with assistance from Confederation Centre Art Gallery鈥檚 conservation technician and curator of the exhibition, Jill McRae. Upon completion of treatment, the site-specific piece will be reinstalled in the main concourse to once again interact with the architecture and light, 鈥渞eflecting something of the outside in to the interior. McRae says, 鈥淚鈥檓 excited to work with a visiting conservator and for the opportunity to talk with visitors about the role of conservation in gallery and museum collections.鈥�