Water is life's mater and matrix,
mother and medium.
There is no life without water.
~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Over the last ten years Hilary Kneale's practice has shifted from large site-specific installation to performance that is created within both constructed and natural environments. She has worked on solo projects and also created work in a long-term collaboration with artist Ann Rapstoff as VAINliveart and the Go-Betweens and on other specific projects with both Rapstoff and Barbara Dean as Kitchen Antics and Appliances. She has also co-facilitated projects that have highlighted the work of other artists of various disciplines. "I find the collaborative process both creatively fulfilling and challenging and like to balance it with independent study and practice."The last three years has seen Kneale focus on aspects of the element of water. The investigation has woven through study in the natural landscape and into writing, walking in the company of moving water for the length of the Thames, and into performance within a created environment akin to an alchemists garden.Hilary currently lives in Oxford, UK. She is the mother of three young adults.
Over the last ten years Hilary Kneale's practice has shifted from large site-specific installation to performance that is created within both constructed and natural environments. She has worked on solo projects and also created work in a long-term collaboration with artist Ann Rapstoff as VAINliveart and the
Go-Betweens and on other specific projects with both Rapstoff and Barbara Dean as Kitchen Antics and Appliances. She has also co-facilitated projects that have highlighted the work of other artists of various disciplines.
"I find the collaborative process both creatively fulfilling and challenging and like to balance it with independent study and practice."
The last three years has seen Kneale focus on aspects of the element of water. The investigation has woven through study in the natural landscape and into writing, walking in the company of moving water for the length of the Thames, and into performance within a created environment akin to an alchemists garden.
Hilary currently lives in Oxford, UK. She is the mother of three young adults.
A Movers and Makers project with Helen Poynor and Annie Pfingst
A Movers and Makers Project with Helen Poynor and Annie Pfingst
Peel 2006 Art Shop and Gallery Abbergavenny
Hilary Kneale and Ann Rapstoff will be in residence at the Turbine House Gallery, Blake's Lock
Reading, UK
May 24th - June 5th. Open Day 5th June, 2010
Turbine House Residency
Since 2000 Hilary Kneale and Ann Rapstoff have worked on a number of collaborative projects in addition to pursuing their individual practices. In 2007, they began a series of ongoing projects concerning water and in particular their relationship to their home river the Thames.
For the Turbine House Residency, they continue pursuing their interests in the elemental nature of water and its cycles, while responding to the Turbine House in Reading located near the meeting point of the rivers Kennet and Thames.
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I teach Gabrielle Roth's 5 Rhythms™, informed by Helen Poynor's Walk of Life non-stylised movement practice, my teaching is inspired by my own work as an environmental artist and ongoing study of native American and Celtic land based shamanic practices.
The 5 Rhythms™ is a movement meditation practice devised over many years by Gabrielle Roth, its roots are ancient and reach back to the prayerful practices of times past, the work links to the prayer dances of native Americans, to the songlines of the Native Australians, to the yoicks and dances of the Sámi people, to the land based spirituality of the Celts and all other indigenous peoples who were more deeply connected to their bodies, the whole fabric of the earth and all living things. I have practiced the Rhythms over the last 14 years and became an accredited teacher in 2004.
Helen Poynor's Walk of Life work also facilitates focused presence within the body through movement within the natural landscape. The practice is a non-stylised movement exploration of the micro and the macro habitats of both the body and the landscape. I have worked with Helen for a number of years in my capacities as a movement practitioner, a teacher and an artist, I am currently in a second year long training of the practice.
"Hilary teaches with a wisdom that comes from living life to the full and paying attention. She has a sense of humour that keeps the sacred every day, she is eternally curious and genuinely fascinated by life. She is the sexiest funniest heartiest shapeshifter!"
Sue Rickards. 5Rhythms™ teacher. London
www.acalltodance.com
Weekly classes & Workshops
Creative and Healing Work in the Natural Landscape
I offer opportunities for individual guided self-healing in the natural landscape, working to establish a reconnection to the body through the spirit and substance the of land.
I have had a close relationship with spirit within land, and with trees and plants for as long as I can remember. I have learned to work with trees as living divining rods.
I will accompany you as you take steps into the mirror of the landscape and trees, to find healing through the wisdom and teaching of these ancient beings. I will assist you in finding your particular medicine through walking, sitting with the deep silence and language of the land, I will hear your stories and find with you the keys you search for.
I recommend that we spend a minimum of half a day together, taking time to slow into the rhythm of the land before our work begins.
Adventure into the Landscape of each Season
For over 5 years, four times a year, I have worked with Cathy Ryan to offer a day of rich and creative time to mark the change of the seasons. With a group we spend time in local woodland in silence, to actively witness the subtle seasonal changes. When we return from the wood, we eat together and then spend time making creative responses that hold a personal intention in line with the essence that each season brings.
Groups of 10 max.
Next gathering Autumn 16th October, Winter 11th December
Links
www.kitchenanticsandappliances.com/
www.annrapstoff.co.uk
www.barbaradean.co.uk
www.moda.mdx.ac.uk/
www.summerdancing.co.uk
www.thedomesticsoundscape.com/wordpress/?page_id=936
www.ilandart.org
www.liamreeves.com
www.christiankipp.com
www.gabrielleroth.com
www.walkoflife.co.uk
Hilary Kneale
hilarykneale_gmail.com
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Acknowledgements
Web site photographs by Christian Kipp, Clawz Moon, Ann Rapstoff, Hilary Kneale
Anne Pfingst, Gian Paolo Cottino. Glass eggs made by Liam Reeves RCA.
Interview recorded, edited and produced by Felicity Ford for The Domestic Soundscape Cut & Splice podcast series, commissioned by Sound & Music 2009
Website built by Clawz Moon
