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In Conversation with Oneself

In Conversation with Oneself by Celia Walmsley and Katherine Minor (collaborators)

We hold a hundred conversations with ourselves each day

Voices that rattle on

until another part of us

rises to observe

to question,

to confront what we believe.

In Conversation with Oneself is our 6th collaboration and builds on a collaborative practice that has spanned collaborations in 2020 Portrait, 2021 Bannockburn Project, 2022 Corridor and Before, While, Rest Past , 2023 and 2024 Video.


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. 

Exhibition

In conversation with Oneself can be viewed at the Bannockburn Arts Exhibition, 10 - 12 October 2025, 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 Katherine Minor (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 & 25),  Damani Campbell Williams (2024), 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.