I am a process-based artist working with performance, craft and video. Interested in the relationship between bodily endurance and materials; specifically processes of the human condition that we’re apparently bound to psychologically and physically in relation to mundane materials and domestic environments.

I enquire into the marks that can be made by the emotional peaks and troughs of significant collective life experiences that are confined by the body in reference to traditional imagery of the feminine.

Taking on a hypnotic ritualistic approach to this process reverberates rites of passage and transformation, as the mundane becomes something other.

There is an element of abjection in the work as I surrender to the audience and the human condition, which is paralleled by a fairy tale like curiosity of the psyche that’s veil is lifted through endurance and restriction.

Like Alice in Wonderland needs a reader for her story to be realised the audience enables me to continue the difficult journeys that I undertake, preventing the abandonment of the seemingly un-rewarded climb of pure process.

Influences:
Louise Bourgeois, Rebecca Horn, Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci, Emma Woffenden, T.S.Eliot, Silvia Plath, Aldous Huxley and Jung

www.beckybowley.com