Before While Rest Past
by Celia Walmsley and Katherine Minor (collaborators)
‘Before While Rest Past’ is a collaboration between Celia Walmsley (photographer) and Katherine Minor (dancer).
Ballet is the epitome of perceived perfection. The sublime beauty, supreme atheliticism, the glitter of the costumes and glamour of the stage.
‘Before While Rest Past’ explores some of the physical and philosophical dilemas that lie behind that journey in search of perfection. The hundred of pairs of worn out shoes, the blisters and bunnions, the hours of sweat, tension, competition, questionning and waiting.
‘Past’ is a tribute to Katherine’s shoemaker ‘L’ at Freed of London who is soon to retire, after which Katherine’s shoes will no longer be hand made. ‘Past’ is a tribute to the dying art of hand made pointe shoes.
Katherine Minor
Katherine Minor is a soloist dancer with the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Katherine is also a ceramicist with keen interest in philosophy and writing.
Celia Walmsley
This collaboration with friend and artist extraordinaire, Katherine Minor is particularly special as we continue to build collaborative artworks that combine our phylosophical and narraive ideas and dance and photographic disciplines.
As a photographer my artwork primarily centres on collaboration with dancers and choreographers and explores the oxymoronic relationship between stillness and movement, photography and dance.
