Anyone recently walking past the Sudden Garden art sculpture in front of the Downtown Guelph sign on Gordon Street may have noticed one of the four deer toppled over.
City Staff is currently working on bringing it back on its feet.
Laura Mousseau, communications coordinator at the city said city staff first learned about the damaged art on Sept. 3.
Mousseau said city staff are working with the artists and the foundry where the sculptures were cast to remove the damaged pieces as soon as possible.
She said sculptures can hopefully be repaired and put back in place by the end of next week.
Sudden Garden was installed in Downtown Guelph in the fall of 2019 and is a work of Toronto artists Robert Cram and Eldon Garnet.
The four deer represent wilderness living in an urban environment. Architectural shapes formed to make the bodies of the deer are a reference to the Basilica of Our Lady Immaculate, John Galt's Priory Residence and the Guelph Farmer's Market.
An empty sphere on one of the deer represents the missing Carnegie Library.
