Metchosin ArtPod

Metchosin ArtPod Located DT Metchosin, in MACCA, on Scia'new traditional land.
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Metchosin ArtPod Society is a group of local visual artists working together to improve & promote their work, & inspire & collaborate with the local community via exhibitions, workshops, etc. Artists submitting to Open Call shows can find our submission guidelines at https://metchosinartpod.ca/submission-guidelines/

This week we are featuring our JUROR'S CHOICE AWARD Winners.CONGRATULATIONS to Carrie Walker with her piece You can Go Y...
09/01/2026

This week we are featuring our JUROR'S CHOICE AWARD Winners.

CONGRATULATIONS to Carrie Walker with her piece You can Go Your own Way.
"You Can Go Your Own Way is from a series of pencil drawings called Stick Drawings. Sidestepping my usual human and non-human animal subjects, I looked instead at the detritus of trees – the stick. My attention was brought to this subject by my small terrier, Guess, who obsessively lugs home sticks that are far longer than she is. I regularly post videos to social media of her carrying sticks since it is a hilarious sight that needs to be shared. The time it takes to reproduce by hand the fine details of each stick in pencil on paper, stands in contrast to the quick production and consumption of a funny dog video. On each drawing, I include the date that I posted the video of my dog carrying the stick to social media so the viewer can correlate the drawing to the video."

Our latest exhibition ABOUT TIME opened this past weekend.This week we are featuring our JUROR'S CHOICE AWARD Winners.CO...
08/31/2026

Our latest exhibition ABOUT TIME opened this past weekend.

This week we are featuring our JUROR'S CHOICE AWARD Winners.

CONGRATULATIONS to Liana Evans for her piece Vascular lace.

"Time has been at the forefront of my mind recently:
a milestone birthday and thoughts of "how much longer do I have?"
watching my mother worn away by dementia wondering "how much longer will this last?"
my firstborn leaving home realizing our future time together is forever changed
I’m both anxious for more time, and fearful of it extending too long.
There is a precious quality to the full cyanotype process and in taking the time, through multiple attempts, to get a print just so.
Obviously not a technically “perfect” print, but I love how the wabi sabi of it speaks as a metaphor for time. The leaf is obviously weathered, and the print has areas of soft focus which lend an ethereal quality to the image, as if spying time through a clouded lens as an aged eye might. It whispers of the fragility and ephemeral nature of life, while the areas of crisp focus remind us of how indelible memories can be if we but make the time to be present."

Meet our Juror, David MacWilliam(Written by Phyllis Schwartz)The exhibition’s juror and featured artist, David MacWillia...
08/29/2026

Meet our Juror, David MacWilliam
(Written by Phyllis Schwartz)

The exhibition’s juror and featured artist, David MacWilliam, is a Vancouver-based artist, curator, writer, and educator whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, sound, photography, installation, and writing. His work begins with research
and close observation of the everyday, investigating how ordinary objects, fleeting moments, and acts of looking become transformed through attention, context, and material.

MacWilliam is drawn to what is often overlooked or only partially perceived—a foghorn in the mist, the call of a tree frog, weathered surfaces, or unnoticed details of familiar objects. Field recordings, photographs, and found materials often become starting points for sustained studio investigation. Moving between documentation and abstraction, his work explores how perception, memory, and time shape experience. Born in Halifax and raised in Victoria, MacWilliam has maintained a multidisciplinary practice for more than four decades, exhibiting across Canada and internationally. He
taught at Emily Carr University of Art + Design from 1988 to 2017 and is now Professor Emeritus.

For About Time, MacWilliam presents Wash Cloths (2026), a new work created from scanned images of his family’s well-used washcloths. Used, washed, dried, and
cared for over many years, the cloths are laid on a flatbed scanner, revealing their functional beauty and worn textures. What would ordinarily disappear into the background becomes the focus of looking. As MacWilliam writes, the work “slows our looking,” inviting viewers to consider how the smallest interruptions can transform perception and how meaning emerges through sustained attention.

Metchosin ArtPod’s About Time exhibition is in the news!Metchosin Muse, September 2026, Vol. 34 Issue 8The texture of Ti...
08/29/2026

Metchosin ArtPod’s About Time exhibition is in the news!
Metchosin Muse, September 2026, Vol. 34 Issue 8
The texture of Time by Phyllis Schwartz
"Time does not stand still, and neither does art. Clocks and calendars can measure it, but we also experience it through memory, repetition, change, wear, and fleeting details
of everyday life.

Curated by Dyan Marie, Phyllis Schwartz, and Edward Peck, and juried by artist, curator, and educator David MacWilliam, the exhibition brings together work that considers time in personal, social, political, everyday, generational, and historical forms.
Artists explore time as mood, process, memory, place, trace, and fleeting moment. Rather than narrowing the conversation, the exhibition reflects not only on clocks and calendars but also on the texture of passing time itself."

COMING SOON: SEPT 4-20Understory: the art of lookingAndrew BradfordMeet & Greet the Artist – Saturday, September 5, 2026...
08/27/2026

COMING SOON: SEPT 4-20
Understory: the art of looking
Andrew Bradford
Meet & Greet the Artist – Saturday, September 5, 2026 (1-3pm)
Sometimes, the closer you look the more interesting things you see.

Once I noticed how strange and interesting fungi are, my attention was drawn down to the forest floor. I began looking beneath the plants, often underneath the mushrooms themselves.

It’s not just fungi; I like to examine plants as well as scenes that might otherwise be looked over. There are beautiful and intricate structures all around us, often too small to notice or too familiar to spend time examining. Even decay can be beautiful.

Most subjects in this exhibit are smaller than a pea: these are some of the tiny wonders I’ve found in the understory.

Dwell in der Gemütlichkeit of Berlin on the last day of Edward Peck's solo exhibition, The Anthropology of Memory in th...
08/27/2026

Dwell in der Gemütlichkeit of Berlin on the last day of Edward Peck's solo exhibition, The Anthropology of Memory in the Cove Gallery at the Metchosin ArtPod.

Join Ed in Berlin this Saturday, and he’ll take your photo.

Metchosin ArtPod Gallery, 4495 Happy Valley Road, Saturday, 29 August, 11am - 4 pm.

Congratulations to our People's Choice award winners Anita Doornekamp and Laura Feeleus for their collaborative piece "C...
08/23/2026

Congratulations to our People's Choice award winners Anita Doornekamp and Laura Feeleus for their collaborative piece "Common Walls".

This SUNDAY August 23rd, 3-4PM, is art pick up day from the Metchosin ArtPod.
08/19/2026

This SUNDAY August 23rd, 3-4PM, is art pick up day from the Metchosin ArtPod.

Join Edward Peck today between 1 and 3pm for his solo exhibition : The Anthropology of Memory. Edward will be answering ...
08/15/2026

Join Edward Peck today between 1 and 3pm for his solo exhibition : The Anthropology of Memory. Edward will be answering questions about his recent photographic residency in Berlin.

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