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.

Found Landscapes





Found Landscapes (on going collection)
When elephants find the bones of their kind they caress the bones with their feet and trunks. I searched for human bones, and I began collecting found and discarded landscapes, landscapes that were once in the homes of their previous owners. I bring the bones and the landscapes together, and found objects as reflections on the process of life, death, displacement, exile and home.