Dave Laliberte

About the Artist

Dave Laliberte is a self-taught steel sculptor who was born in St. Denis, Saskatchewan in 1949. He moved to Manitoba in 1968 and currently resides in a small town south of Winnipeg.

Dave has spent 32 years working with metal, the past 18 of them sculpting as a hobby. With a tremendous amount of encouragement from his wife, family, and friends, he decided to pursue his career as an artist since 1992.

Dave's talent lies in his ability to transform cold, lifeless steel into a work of art, alive with action and emotion. The combination of Dave's experience in metals along with his artistic abilities have resulted in both the realization of his dream as well as a new form of art for the public to enjoy.

Dave creates his pieces by hand from raw materials which are cut, formed, welded and later ground to a finish. He has also developed a method to preserve his pieces and bring out their natural colour and beauty through burning. To Dave, this distinctive process of creating life-like pieces out of raw steel is as much an art as the resulting piece itself.

Each piece Dave creates is unique as the only mold he uses is his mind. He has many new ideas just waiting to be created, sculpted and unveiled. Dave welcomes the challenge of customizing pieces to make the thoughts and impressions of others come to life.

- by Kim Patterson