The Boomer Gallery - "Dreams and Nightmares" Call For Artists

• Boomer Gallery London

• Deadline: September 4th, 2025

• Theme: Dreams and Nightmares

• Prize: Exhibition in London + Exposure

• Entry Fees: Free Submission (Pay if Selected)

• REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE

Are dreams and nightmares not merely the flickers of a sleeping mind, but rather the hidden engines propelling our deepest creative expressions—the secret fuel behind every brushstroke, every verse, every haunting melody? Might these nocturnal visions, fleeting and ephemeral as they are, contain the very essence of what drives humanity to create, to explore, to externalize the internal?

Countless artists throughout the ages have clung to this belief, not with casual interest, but with fierce conviction. For them, dreams are far more than illusions. They are gateways—passages into a liminal world where logic bows before emotion, and the soul is free to dance in strange, uncharted dimensions. In these dreams, inspiration flows like a river, unbound and untamed. There, artists find themselves transported to landscapes rich in metaphor, color, and sensation. Within this dream-trance, they lose all sense of time and space, surrendering to a rhythm only the subconscious can compose.

This creative trance isn’t just a desirable state—it is a sanctuary. It is the whispering of the infinite, calling the artist to reach beyond the visible and the known, into the ecstatic unknown. Here, every idea gleams with the potential of the sublime. Every sensation echoes with mystery. It is a playground of pure possibility.

But where dreams delight, nightmares haunt. And for many creators, the muse doesn’t come wrapped in beauty, but draped in terror. Nightmares, with their jagged edges and suffocating tension, plunge artists into the raw, pulsing heart of their own fears. They stir long-buried wounds, bring unspoken anxieties to the surface, and demand to be reckoned with.

These visions are not peaceful—they’re turbulent, filled with internal screams and emotional vertigo. And yet, from this darkness, astonishing beauty often emerges. Artists who venture into these night-born hells return with works that throb with intensity and truth. Their pain becomes pigment; their dread, melody. This art is confrontational, fearless, and emotionally unfiltered. It bears the mark of the soul in turmoil and, in that turmoil, reveals something deeply human and achingly real.

In the end, whether inspired by dream’s gentle luminescence or nightmare’s piercing shadow, artists transform what they encounter into expressions that speak to us all. Creativity, it seems, does not merely bloom in the light—but also grows in the darkest corners of the mind, reaching for meaning in both beauty and despair.