Based in central Québec, Canada 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. Walking artists intimately bound to landscape and geography, 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, 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. Their open approach frequently includes public participation whereby the participant becomes part of the artwork in a relationship of mutual trust.
