"Jacqueline and Nancy created an engaging, thought-provoking and site-specific installation that is deceptively simple and yet powerfully evocative on a number of levels. ...[their] work finds an exciting balance between the representational and the abstract, the rational and the intuitive, the local and the global – all founded on and connected through a profound conceptual approach that remains strongly implicit in its expression."

-John Rice, Cultural Development Officer, North Vancouver Office of Cultural Affairs

Jacqueline Metz and Nancy Won Chew are visual artists who have worked collaboratively since 1997.  They met at the University of British Columbia in 1986 through their common interests in architecture, public space, landscape and cultural thought. 

Jacqueline had a childhood in northern BC, camping, building forts in the forest, watching the light shift, seasons change, leaves decay, the shifting crackling aurora borealis, exploring nature. A fascination with form, colour, texture, and the play of permanent and ephemeral. Later formative interests include photography, archaeology, and literature - things informed by perception, context, interpretation - all leading to a fascination with manmade forms and spaces and the layers of context and how that changes everything - what we see and how we edit the world.

Nancy is a first generation Canadian raised on Vancouver Island. Growing up on the Island, next to the Cowichan Tribes, her world was about navigating diverse cultures and thought systems - Western, Chinese and Indigenous. Living next to the majestic forest of the Cowichan Reserve and bounded on the other side by the Trans-Canada-Highway – Nancy has always felt the yin and yang of the physical world and how that gives form and shape to the inner world. The boundaries, the narratives - historical and imagined, the wind blowing through the trees and at dusk how the light changes and the traffic din dies down, formed a heightened sense of site and place and a belief that the world is more than the sum of its parts. She moved to Vancouver at the age of 17 and studied studio arts, art theory, and architecture. She has worked in design, curating and teaching. She has, thus far, had a serendipitous life.

These diverse experiences and influences come together to create an art practice that is conceptual yet grounded in place - a practice centred on the public realm, an exploration of place and perception