Rachel Kneebone’s work has been described as ‘sculptural choreography’, the expression of physical metamorphosis and dynamic movement.

The Dance Project (Touchstones, Rochdale, 2018–19) was an exhibition of sculptures and a performance made in collaboration with the choreographer TC Howard. Howard and professional dancers Debbie Milner, Ellen Turner and Beth Payton worked on the project with a group of women from across the borough of Rochdale. Looking at and responding to Kneebone’s work was the catalyst for the sharing of their personal stories and the dance became the means to express and explore these histories.

The body extending in space is a central motif in Kneebone’s sculptures, the tactile surfaces creating a dynamic that leads the eye over and around the sculptures’ complex, inter-relating visceral forms, at once erotic, elegiac and constrained. Recumbent legs, long winding tracts of ribbon, tendrils and floral forms are repeated, unravelling and interconnecting around a smooth large orb which sits in direct and graphic contrast to the elements piled around it.

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