As walking-artists intimately bound to the geography and landscape of their rural environment, Bonneau-Knight’s practice considers body-time-place interconnectedness, articulated through drawing in its most fundamental form - the line - using various media. Inspired by cartographic practices and questioning the framework of abstractions which dictate contemporary perceptions of the land, Bonneau-Knight seeks to divert them, to reinterpret them, favoring low-tech imprecise methods based on slowness, repetition and seriality.
At the heart of their approach is a fully collaborative process; the resulting work is dependent on this shared space.
Based in central Québec on the traditional territory of the W8banaki Nation, the Ndakina, Bonneau-Knight Collective is Isabelle Bonneau, originally from Lac-St-Jean QC and Emily Knight, originally from St. John's NL, who are dedicated to a joint practice in walking art since 2016. Their work was recently featured in the colloquium Ethical Public Art in Canada in a project co-curated by Noémie Fortin and the 3e impérial, centre d’essai en art actuel, and in Racontages curated by Jeanne Couture for the Centre d’art Jacques-et-Michel-Auger. The collective is a member of the Arts Territory Exchange (aTE), an international network of artists and artistic practices that respond to the geography of their territory.
For their micro-publishing residency at Centre SAGAMIE, Bonneau-Knight is developing an atlas of a very small parcel of surveyed land
