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Corridor

CORRIDOR 
by CELIA WALMSLEY AND KATHERINE MINOR


A work about choice(s). 

Choice
This is the path I’ve chosen.

Is this the correct one for me?

Other potentials are waiting, but here I am in my corridor of light.

 

Potential
Now, doubt is seeping in. 

How can I be certain this is right?  Would other corridors lead to a more fulfilling life?

Yet, I’ll strive to understand the potential of this path and what led me here.

 

Reflection
The other corridors are still there, but in the dusk. 

I am no longer haunted by what could have been, but allowing myself to appreciate what is.

 

 

Katherine Minor 

is a soloist with the Royal New Zealand Ballet.  She joined the RNZB in 2014 and became Soloist in 2019. 

Katherine has a keen interest in philosophy and ceramics.  

Corridor is her third collaboration with Celia.

Our other collaborations include 2020, 2021, Before, While, Rest, Past 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Celia Walmsley 
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. 

This collaboration with friend and artist extraordinaire, Katherine Minor is particularly special as we continue to build collaborative art pieces together.  

Exhibition

Corridor was exhibited at the Bannockburn Arts Exhibition, October 2022, at the stunning Cairnmuir Woolshed, Bannockburn, Central Otago.

About Collaboration

Collaboration and co-authorship are essential elements in our process, form and outcomes. The work is co-authored and co-owned by the collaborators.  Nothing happens without the others agreement.  This reflects Daniel Palmer’s (2017) proposal on the move away, since the 1960s, from the ‘art-world trope’ of sole adventurer photographer towards collaborative work. Issues of agency, power, and the link between authorship and authority, also influence the work. 

Collaborations past and present, with dancers and choreographers, include Damani Campbell Williams (2024), Katherine Minor (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 & 25), Gretchen Steimle (2023), Loughlan Prior (2020, 2021, 2022), Laura Saxon-Jones (2021), Jessie McCall (2017, 2018), Jared Hemopo (2018), Emma Delabarca (2017, 2018) and Kayla Paige (2015). My work has been exhibited at the Auckland Festival of Photography, Exposure and St James Theatre, Wellington, the Aotea and Bruce Mason Centres, Auckland and the annual Artists of Bannockburn Exhibition.

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