Rachel Neeb - The Dance of Sculpture
The union and mingling of bodies
The Body in Transition and Transformation
Rachel Kneebone, Rise (details), 2017, porcelain, 59x56cm
Rachel Neeb:
New Life, Transformation, Life Cycle
The experience of inhabiting the body
Born in 1973 in Oxfordshire, UK, she lives and works in London. Has had solo exhibitions at Touchstone Gallery, Rochdale, UK (2018); Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2017); White Cube (Glyndebourne Manor, Lewis, UK, 2017); Nursery Museum, London (2017); and Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York (2012).
Rachel Kneebone's intricate works problematize and question the many conditions facing humanity: renewal, transformation, life cycles, and the experience of inhabiting the body. Her sculptures mobilize a certain subconscious activity that oscillates between the boundaries of the conscious and the subconscious, the real and the imagined, the all and the nothing.
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Rachel Kneebone
Dance (detail)
2017, porcelain, Corian and adhesive
41 x 63 x 60 cm
16 1/8 x 24 13/16 x 23 5/8 in.
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“I have always been fascinated by dance: how bodies combine and intermingle, how dancers create new forms, how dance allows us to escape into different spaces and languages. My work is closely related to movement, form and space.”
Through the use of ceramics, the material properties of the work are further enhanced and convey a sense of opposing states, not only as heavy, solid and strong, but also as light, broken and soft. This fluidity reflects a wide range of art historical and literary origins that guide the artist's practice.
As Ali Smith writes, in Niebuhn's work, “Michelangelo meets Angela Carter, the Renaissance meets the contemporary, and the future simultaneously merges with the Renaissance and transforms it in another.”
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Rachel Kneebone
Furl
2022
Porcelain, steel and adhesive
94 x 55 x 55 cm | 37 x 21 5/8 x 21 5/8 in.
Rachel Kneebone
Yaw II
2021
Porcelain
55 x 13 cm | 21 5/8 x 5 1/8 in.
Rachel Kneebone
Yaw II
2021
Porcelain
55 x 13 cm | 21 5/8 x 5 1/8 in.
Rachel Kneebone
Souvenir
2021
Porcelain, Corian and adhesive
80 x 48 x 48 cm | 31 1/2 x 18 7/8 x 18 7/8 in.
Rachel Kneebone
Quill
2021
Porcelain, steel and adhesive
243.5 x 83 x 35 cm | 95 7/8 x 32 11/16 x 13 3/4 in.
Rachel Kneebone
Net
2020
Porcelain, steel and adhesive
102 x 207 x 37.5 cm | 40 3/16 x 81 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.
Rachel Kneebone
Rain
2019
Porcelain, steel and adhesive
261 x 69.5 x 31.5 cm | 102 3/4 x 27 3/8 x 12 3/8 in.
Rachel Kneebone
Rib
2019
Porcelain, steel and adhesive
182 x 65 x 28 cm | 71 5/8 x 25 9/16 x 11 in.
Rachel Kneebone
Twitch
2017
Porcelain, steel and adhesive
57 x 35 x 11 cm | 22 7/16 x 13 3/4 x 4 5/16 in.
Rachel Kneebone
Bend
2017
Porcelain, Corian and adhesive
60 x 75 x 85 cm | 23 5/8 x 29 1/2 x 33 7/16 in.
Rachel Kneebone
Roll
2017
Porcelain, Corian and adhesive
63.5 x 55 x 71 cm | 25 x 21 5/8 x 27 15/16 in.
Rachel Kneebone
Pupa
2016
Porcelain, Corian and adhesive
33 x 46 x 40 cm | 13 x 18 1/8 x 15 3/4 in.
Rachel Kneebone
Raft of the Medusa VII
2015
Porcelain, Corian and adhesive
56 x 44 x 79 cm | 22 1/16 x 17 5/16 x 31 1/8 in.
Rachel Kneebone
Raft of the Medusa VI
2015
Porcelain, Corian and adhesive
58 x 73.5 x 50 cm | 22 13/16 x 28 15/16 x 19 11/16 in.
Rachel Kneebone
It is Harder to Limit a Disturbance Already Begun
2014
Porcelain, Corian and adhesive
61.5 x 76.5 x 63.5 cm | 24 3/16 x 30 1/8 x 25 in.
Rachel Kneebone
399 Days
2012-2013
Porcelain and mild steel
540 x 287 x 283 cm | 212 5/8 x 113 x 111 7/16 in.
Rachel Kneebone
The Descent
2008
Porcelain
Approx. 3.5m wide (to edge of viewing ledge) x 1.5m high
Rachel Kneebone
'Ovid in Exile' X
2016
Pencil on paper
84 x 59.4 cm | 33 1/16 x 23 3/8 in.
34 13/16 x 25 1/16 x 1 1/2 in. (framed)
Rachel Kneebone
'Ovid in Exile' V
2016
Pencil on paper
59.4 x 42 cm | 23 3/8 x 16 9/16 in.
63.7 x 46.3 x 3.8 cm | 25 1/16 x 18 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (framed)