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Air: Exploring Our Place In The Atmosphere

Public voting (any user) is enabled ( 1 votes) from 31/05/2024, 11:00 (PDT) until 28/07/2025, 23:56 (PDT)

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

AIR:

Exploring our place in the atmosphere

AIR: We invited artists to explore AIR in all its meanings and possibilities for this unique show! Can we both celebrate AIR as a fundamental life force while also communication its fragility?

The juror for this show is Samantha Dickie. Check out their work: on Instagram: @samantha.dickie.studio or Website: https://www.samanthadickie.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 April 4th 2025- May 25th 2025. 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 the 5th of April from 2pm tp 4pm. Meet our juror, and hear how she choose the works featured in this show,  listen to accepted artists in attendance speak about their works and process, and celebrate the 3 Juror's Choice Winners!

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Enjoy the show!

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A Breath of Fine Spring Air
A Breath of Fine Spring Air
Derek Kasper
CA$250.00


Dimensions: 12 x 10 x 10
Inspiration:: Ceramic objects are commonly described as body parts. Feet, necks, bellies, shoulders are all mentioned. In my imagination a full-bodied pot like a “moon jar” (sun jar?) is like a solid illustration of a gigantic inhale of the surrounding air, and in this case the soft and beautiful air of a sunny spring day!
Materials and Process:: Porcelain thrown on a potter's wheel, glazed and fired in oxidation
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Drink Your Tea In The Afternoon
Drink Your Tea In The Afternoon
Bonnie Coulter
CA$225.00


Dimensions: 15.25 x 12.25 x 1
Inspiration:: All my life I have been an early riser. A time when the air stirs easily, and the sounds of birds travel best. The Towhee’s song is a new addition to my playlist. We have big trees all around us and a lot of fallen branches and brambles where these little antisocial fellows hang out. Their song stands out in the afternoon when the rest have gone quiet. I painted this Towhee in watercolor as it feels more fleetingly fragile than oil or artificial acrylic. I don’t think I could bear the loss of the songbirds to climate change. The art of the bird would then be a beautiful stand-in to accompany the grief we feel for what we have lost. Make art our daily reminder to fight climate change and preserve the beauty of our natural world.
Materials and Process:: watercolor, cold wax
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Breathe
Breathe
Dyan Marie
CA$500.00


Dimensions: 72 x 48 x 30
Inspiration:: Breathe is a sign presented as a sculptural installation, accompanied by photographic traces of a site-specific work at the ocean, reflecting on the air we breathe. More than half of the world’s oxygen comes from plankton, including those thriving in the ocean that surrounds us. Created in response to Air: Exploring our Place in the Atmosphere, this work attends to breath—its rhythm shaped by emotion, by movement, by simply being alive. We take nearly three-quarters of a billion breaths in a lifetime. Most go unnoticed. This is an invitation to notice. Performance Exercise: Breath slowly & deeply 3 times
Materials and Process:: Installation: sculpture and photograph
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Loon Series #2 A/P (artist proof)
Loon Series #2 A/P (artist proof)
Dave Skilling
CA$325.00


Dimensions: 13 x 13 x 1
Inspiration:: The wind eases into silence and a solitary call of a loon fills the air as we paddle through the channel... an ethereal call that rises up from between the small islands into the cloudless summer sky. As we glide closer, we observe several loons fishing. They dive periodically, bubbles coming to the surface.
Materials and Process:: Jigsaw linocut print, ink on paper
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The 11th Hour
The 11th Hour
Peter Flanagan
CA$6,000.00


Dimensions: 4.5 x 31 x 3
Inspiration:: My large scale porcelain wall chargers require several months in the making. Air and atmosphere are essential to the process. The air I breathe while making and the air that slowly removes the moisture from the wet, plastic clay are one and the same. The pivotal moments in completing the gestural expression and pattern are achieved through a mindful, meditative act. Relaxed breathing allows for a connection to the body while making marks on the surface. The title of the piece “The 11th Hour” draws from the Roman numeral XI, which spontaneously appeared in the design. The eleventh hour can be understood in numerous ominous ways, but for me especially refers to the catastrophic warming of our planet’s atmosphere. In the eleventh hour, there is also the positive potential to turn the tide in an astonishing way.
Materials and Process:: Wheel thrown and trimmed porcelain, black porcelain slip and ash glaze. Sgraffito design in glaze and high temperature reduction firing.
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Constellation
Constellation
Jane Francis
CA$1,250.00


Dimensions: 36 x 36 x 2
Inspiration:: CONSTELLATION is a study of breathing in and breathing out, recognizing and celebrating the all-pervasive interconnectedness of natural systems. Holding the awe in a tender hand, suspended over the interplay between human form and organic forms. Instilling a combination of hard and soft mark-making to build relationship with a monumental chest (that I often see as a land mass) and sinuous plant life. I feel the entity floating in a night sky… revealing a perspective of irrepressible potency through every breath.
Materials and Process:: oil on wood panel
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Blue gust
Blue gust
Alison
CA$800.00


Dimensions: 24 x 36 x 1.5
Inspiration:: What is the colour of air? If we could see it, what would it look like? But we can only see the effects of air.
Materials and Process:: Oil on canvas
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