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Sleepless: Art From the Midnight Hour

Welcome to Metchosin ArtPod's  ONLINE GALLERY for the juried show...

Sleepless: Art From the Midnight Hour

 What keeps you up at night? What scares you? What excites you? What art expresses your inner landscape that is accessed in the intimacy of the nighttime? We can travel to a different world at night in our dreams and awaken our imagination.

The juror for this show is Elizabeth Carefoot  Check out her work at https://www.elizabethcarefoot.com

The web gallery is where you can vote for your favourite piece in the show. At the end of the show's run, votes are tallied and a People's Choice Award is presented to the deserving winner!

This show also exists in real life in Metchosin, BC, Canada, at Metchosin ArtPod. We highly encourage you to come see it  in person during its run from Friday October 4th, 2024 to Sunday November 10th, 2024. People are always happy to have seen the show in person; it is quite a different experience from seeing it on-line.

**Note that ArtPod is open from 11am-4pm  from Fri-Sun.**

We welcome everyone to our  Opening Celebration on SATURDAY October 5th, 2024 from 2-4 pm.  Meet our juror, Elizabeth Carefoot, and hear how she chose the works featured in this show,  listen to accepted artists in attendance speak about their works and process, and celebrate the three Juror's Choice Winners!

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Enjoy the show!

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Night Flowers
Night Flowers
Dyan Marie
CA$600.00


Dimensions: 36 x 40 x 15
Inspiration:: I wake up in the dead of the night for the same reason you wake up: to watch the night flowers bloom hot-flash watered petal specifics unfold anxiety twists them into shape — what the world is now, what’s coming what was said, did, or wasn't done; the lines crossed think of the deepest ocean and lost civilizations life on Mars, dirt beneath my fingernails war and peace, sex and love family and lost friends time, and time being luck.
Materials and Process:: Sculpture: painted and folded felt
Accompanying music/song and artist: : Night Flowers, Dyan Marie
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Through the River of Thoughts, Beliefs, Happiness and Regrets
Through the River of Thoughts, Beliefs, Happiness and Regrets
Anna Mar
CA$1,300.00


Dimensions: 30 x 48 x 9.5
Inspiration:: Eyes wide open. Twisting from side to side. Getting up. Lying down. Checking the time. Counting sheep? At the hour of insomnia our brain is writing its own poetry. Existing in its own space. Visiting new places, situations, people and revisiting the old ones. Rewriting its own scenarios of our life, reminding us what is (un)forgotten.
Materials and Process:: Recycled packaging paper & enamel spray on raw canvas.
Accompanying music/song and artist: : Depth of My Soul by Thievery Corporation ft. Shana Halligan
Detail View
Woodfired Wisdom
Woodfired Wisdom
Irene Ives
CA$250.00


Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 4
Inspiration:: Each spring, I am fortunate to participate in a traditional anagama wood kiln firing on Denman Island. 25 dedicated potters gather to take shifts stoking the kiln, and feeding the group over 4 days and nights. Traditional woodfiring is an art unto itself, and appeals to pottery purists. It is filled with traditions, and techniques, and requires a community of dedicated participants. I love doing the midnight shift, where we keep awake by exchanging knowledge, and experiences in the endless ceramics learning journey. This last spring, as I lay at midnight listening to a pair of owls in the garden, I was inspired to sculpt one for the pending woodfiring weekend. They are an age-old symbol of both wisdom, and of working at night while the rest of the world sleeps. How perfect!
Materials and Process:: Cone 10 stoneware, hand sculpted, black slip scraffito and woodfired.
Accompanying music/song and artist: : Fireflies by Owl City
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Spirits Having Flown
Spirits Having Flown
Monica Reekie
CA$400.00


Dimensions: 17 x 19 x 1
Inspiration:: As I get older, I often think about what happens to my spirit after I leave this planet. When I was sitting at Esquimalt Lagoon one day after my Dad passed and saw a flock of birds lifting off, I captured this image. When I reviewed it at home, they looked like ethereal spirits departing this realm and I thought "That's where I want to go too...where the animals and birds go when it's time to leave this life."
Materials and Process:: Photograph using intentional camera movement, printed on ultra premium photo lustre paper,11 X 13 image matted and framed to 17 X 19 with conservation standard mats and glass. Ltd. Ed. 1 of 8
Accompanying music/song and artist: : River by Joni Mitchel
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Finding Freedom From Within
Finding Freedom From Within
Monica Reekie
CA$400.00


Dimensions: 17 x 19 x 1
Inspiration:: Life often throws curveballs and one can be overwhelmed at times. If one looks within themselves, through life experiences, the answer can be found.
Materials and Process:: Photograph printed on ultra premium photo lustre paper, 10 X 13 image matted and framed to 17 X 19 with conservation standard mats and glass. Ltd. Ed. 1 of 8
Accompanying music/song and artist: : River by Joni Mitchel
Detail View
Where To Go From Here
Where To Go From Here
Monica Reekie
CA$150.00


Dimensions: 14 x 17 x 1
Inspiration:: On observing a lone polar bear in Svalbard, very thin in stature, drifting out to sea, already 50 miles from shore, on a small bit of floe ice, I wonder, where do we all go from here?
Materials and Process:: Photograph on ultra premium photo lustre paper, 8 X 10 image matted and framed to 14 X 17. Ltd. Ed. 1 of 3.
Accompanying music/song and artist: : River by Joni Mitchel
Detail View
Counting Sheep (the Metchosin Edition)
Counting Sheep (the Metchosin Edition)
Memet Burnett
CA$95.00


Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 0.75
Inspiration:: I am so grateful to the farmers who keep Metchosin rural by raising sheep and allowing Metchosin citizens to keep their property rural by grazing sheep in their fields. Loss of habitat is a prime driver in the loss of species diversity across the animal and plant kingdoms. WWF states that the rapid loss of species we are seeing today is estimated by experts to be between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate. This is not good news.
Materials and Process:: Giclee print on paper
Accompanying music/song and artist: : Big Little Lions' song Here we go Again
Detail View
the to-do list
the to-do list
Diana Smith
CA$95.00


Dimensions: 42 x 12 x 0.75
Inspiration:: The never ending, constantly repeating to-do list, going round and round in my mind, especially in the midnight hours. Feel free to (gently) pull the list to experience, with me, the round and round and round feeling.
Materials and Process:: Acrylic, paint brush, tissue paper collage, pen, pencil
Accompanying music/song and artist: : Can't Get You Out of My Head by Kylie Minogue
Detail View
Roland
Roland
Diana Farrell
CA$975.00


Dimensions: 14 x 18
Inspiration:: Ever since he can remember Roland has always been a clown; with friends and family, in the classroom or at work, one could say he was always in the midst of it. In maturity, Roland continues to face his haunting inner turmoil by hiding what he does not want the world to see. Masking himself, Roland faces the world, but that can never be enough. Like wisps of fog, his fear of being found is now all around him; on the precipice of discovery Roland contemplates…
Materials and Process:: Pastels on pastelmat
Accompanying music/song and artist: : Clouds / Hugo Kant
Detail View

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