The Body in Time and Place

Through symbolic action Becky Bowley’s work evokes the relationship between the body and time through the medium of traditional making and the movement of the body within a place. Her interest lies in poetical dialogues between the memory and imagination of human feeling and experiences becoming a dynamic image of the mythical. Materials are composed as symbols of the elements that resonate with impermanence and hint at transformation - to move the body within time and place “To cross a territory, to walk, to open a path, to recognise a place, to comprehend symbolic values, to invent a geography”5.

Biography

Studio based at Bloc Studios Sheffield, Co-director/Curator of Bloc Projects Contemporary Art Space and Associate Curator for Compass Live Art.


Selected Performances & Exhibitions.
We're All In It Together, Bureau, Manchester, 2011.
Ecstatic, Compass Live Art, 2011.
Rise and Fall, Residency, Bank Street Arts, 2010.
Drawn, Clock Tower Gallery, 2010.
Emergency, Green Room Arts, Manchester 2009.
A42D, Bloc Projects, Sheffield 2009.
Testing Grounds, The Permanant Gallery, Brighton 2008.
What the Fuck is Happening Now, ProtoPlay, Brighton 2008.
Artranspennine08, International 3, Manchester 2008.
Dance, Ladyfest, Leeds 2007.
Sensitive Skin, The Book of Blood, Future Factory, Nottingham 2007.
No Two Days The Same, Dance4, Nottingham 2005.
(Dis)comfort, The Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham 2005.
 Live Art assembly, Bloc Projects, Sheffield 2005.
(Im)material, Persitance Works, Sheffield 2004. Fragile, Nottingham Castle 2003.


Selected Press/Publications.
Review, Rise and Fall, Being Now, Sean Williams, 2010
Review, Transmerge, Artists Newsletter, 2008
Preview, Transmerge, Guardian Guide, 2008
Critical Network Review, Transmerge, Guardian Guide, 2008
Review, Artistic Practice, Kate Pickering, 2006
Review, Still Changing, Selvedge Magazine, Sandy Black, 2005
Review, Im Material’ – Artists Newsletter, Simon Bill, 2005
Catalogue, (dis)comfort, The Angel Row Gallery, Deborah Dean and Helen Jones, 2005

Awards.
No Horizon Development Project, Fabrica, Brighton 2003. 2 year Residency, Yorkshire Art Space, Sheffield, 2004.

Study.
Nottingham Trent University and Helsinki School of Art. 1998 - 2003

Born.
1977


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