Grace Ellen Barkey, who cofounded Needcompany with Jan Lauwers in 1986, is an established performer and choreographer. Since 1992 she has been making her own productions as a member of Needcompany. Her work arises where theatre, dance, live art and plastic art meet. Since Few Things (2000), she has worked increasingly closely with Lot Lemm, which led to the launch of Lemm&Barkey, under which they have already undertaken several projects:
they designed the costumes for Isabella’s room (2004) and were responsible for the concept, set and costumes for Chunking and The Porcelain Project. In 2007 they created a porcelain installation for the production The Porcelain Project. It has been shown at several museums including BOZAR (Brussels) and the Benaki Museum (Athens). The curator Luk Lambrecht then invited them to take part in the group exhibition I am your private dancer (2008) at Strombeek cultural centre, they created works for the group exhibition Het spel van de waanzin, over gekte in film en theater (2008) at the Dr Guislain Museum (Ghent) and were invited to take part in the ‘contemporary ceramics’ section of the Down to Earth (2009) exhibition by its curator Hugo Meert.