Tete e Tete (2026)
Artist: Muse Atelier Art Inc

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Location: Vancouver, BC
 

Material: Bronze, Chemical Patination, Steel, Matthews Paint System

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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 centered on the public realm, an exploration of place and perception

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Photography by: Carvel Creative

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Project Details

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The artwork is made up of two materials, bronze and painted
mild steel. The two coyote were 3D printed from digital models
provided by the artists. The final prints were then coated in a
ceramic and silica material, then burned out to receive bronze.
The final castings were then chased and hand finished then
patinated. The boat was made from mild steel. Each panel
of the boat was laid out and laser cut from its profiles. The boat
shapes exterior was fully welded and the interior structural
assembly was welded to create a strong form. The mild steel
was prepped and painted using the Matthews Paint System.

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