Fri, Sep 30
|Nanaimo
Sarah Leckie: Naptime Vocation
Mythical creatures from the heart by Sarah Leckie, created during the naptime of a whole person who needs her. Reception Sept 30th, 6-8 pm
Time & Location
Sep 30, 2022, 6:00 p.m. PDT – Oct 16, 2022, 5:00 p.m. PDT
Nanaimo, 140 Wallace St, Nanaimo, BC V9R 5B1, Canada
About the Event
Space, time and the constraints of motherhood seeped into Sarah's work while she was busy making pottery. This observation for Sarah let her lean into this imagery of organic monsters. With the assistance of an Artist in Residency in Dawson City, Yukon, she has been able to set aside studio time, often contained within the hours of a sleeping child, a body of emotive ceramic beings and tile paintings.
‘Naptime Vocation’ is ~loosely~ exploring the transition into my new ambiguous identity of ‘mom’. It’s stepping into being over-saturated and underslept. It’s rediscovering play and the surreal wonder of exploration. It’s a million little hands and creatures all over everything. It’s new [clay] bodies. It’s chaotic and fun and doesn’t entirely make perfect sense.
It’s also made almost entirely during naptime!