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 an embodiment of dream, myth and the ineffable. Materials are composed as symbols of the elements that resonate with impermanence and hint at transformation - to move the body within time and space “To cross a territory, to walk, to open a path, to recognise a place, to comprehend symbolic values, to invent a geography”5.

Audience Comments


Becky's work has such a quiet intensity.

Deborah Dean

Deeply Moving.

 Mark Goodwin

Light, strong and beautiful site, body and material transgression with a touch of magic.

 Anonymous audience member.

The Mistakes I Have Made

Broken for all the right reasons.

Anonymous

 Grace Waves and Cherry Blossom

The emotional intensity, silence and timing of the performance stayed with me long after the event.

Paul Evans

 Rise and Fall

I want to thank you for your performance and installation at Bank Street Arts I felt very moved by it - my whole mood and outlook on the world changed when I came in I felt burdened by the mundane - but when I left I went out into a brighter world. I was particularly moved by the end, for me, letting my bird dissolve in the water was very powerful, the bird had come to represent liberation, freedom, but as it dissolved away, I realised that holding onto liberation is of course impossible. Then I found the act of your drying my hands so gentle, so kind, so caring, it was very beautiful.  It was transformative and powerful.

Nicky Edmunds Satayajoti

Still Changing

I found the experience of being around you deeply profound. I felt an unusual sense of calm, soothing my subconscious from ideas and solutions, as your knitting dissolved so did my anxieties too, there was patience in your process, tolerance and grace. No approval or disapproval, just acceptance, grace and calm. At times I felt like crying and times I felt at peace, eventually the peace was overwhelming and strangely I can not feel alone, I felt as if I was able to share something very personal, something I need to do for myself.

Susan Macknight
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