Education

1999-2002.   Winchester School of Art. B.A Hons  Fine Art.

1998-1999. U.C.E Bourneville. Birmingham B.T.E.C Foundation in Art

Selected Exhibitions

2024.  Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London

2024.  171 Annual Open, Royal West Academy, Bristol

2024.  BV Open studios, Bristol

2023.   Botanicals, Fronteer Gallery,Sheffield

2023.   BV open studios, Bristol

2022.   Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, London

2022.   169, Open, Royal West Academy, Bristol

2022.   BV Open Studios, Bristol

2022.   It's My Life, The Dolls House Gallery.

2021.   Open, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield

2021.   Vogue, Boomer Gallery, London

2020.   RWA,167 Open, Bristol 

2020.   Test Space, Spike Island open, Bristol (Online show)

2020.   Jeanie Avent Gallery, London 

2019.   BV Open studios

2018.   Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge-Jerwood Drawing Prize

2018.   Vane Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne-Jerwood Drawing Prize 

2018.   166 Open, Royal West Academy, Bristol.

2018.   Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury- Jerwood Drawing Prize

2018.   The Edge, Bath -Jerwood Drawing Prize Tour

2017.   Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017, Jerwood Space, London

2017.   BV Open Studios, Bristol

2017.   Drawn. Royal West Academy, Bristol 

2016.   Surface Stories -Solo Show-Spike Island, Bristol                                  

2016.   164 Open, Royal West Academy, Bristol

2016.   Parallax Art Fair, London

2016.   BV Open Studios, Bristol

2015.   Drawn, Royal West Academy, Bristol

2015.   BV Open Studios, Bristol

2015.   Easton Art Trail, Bristol

2014.   Test Space Open, Spike Island, Bristol

2014.   Parallax Art Fair, London

2014.   South Bank Arts Trail, Bristol. Charity exhibition 

2014.   BV Open studios, Bristol

2013.   161th Open, RWA, Bristol

2013.   Drawn, Royal West Academy, Bristol

2013.   Easton Arts Trail, Bristol

2013.   BV Open Studios, Bristol

2012.   The Gallery, The Arts University, Bournemouth, Dorset

2012.   The Jerwood Drawing Prize. Touring. MAC, Birmingham

2012.   The Jerwood Drawing Prize. Touring. The Jerwood Hastings

2012.   The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London

2012.   Tea stories, Bristol Central Library, Bristol

2011.   Drawing Together. Centre Space, Bristol                        

2011.   Open Doors exhibition, Spike Island,Bristol

2011.   Spike Island Open Studios, Bristol 

2010.   Spike Island, Open studios, Bristol 

2009.   Drawing Exchange, Spike Island Bristol

2008.   Centre for Recent Drawing, London

2008.   St Ives Society, Norway Square Gallery, St Ives 

Selected Projects, Workshops and Events

The Pencil Line 

Drawing on Trains, self-initiated project awarded funding by Arts Council England and delivered in partnership with Virgin trains. 402 drawings collected from the general travelling public and displayed online alongside own work made in response. The project also including 3 community workshops for Bristol Drug Project, St Mungo’s and Space2 (Julian Trust Night shelter) with x2  eBook publications. https://thepencilline.com/

Networks

 One of 5 core artists working with women groups across Bristol involved in the criminal justice system, effected by drug or mental health issues. Rebecca ran two eight-week projects one at Eastwood Park mother and baby unit HMP and one in a NHS secure unit at Blackberry Hill Bristol. This project developed networks through the Digital Resource virtual studio platform and culminated with a group showcase and celebration at Arnolfini. The project, was funded by Creativity Works.

Tea Stories

This project explored the working lives of over 80 ex Brooke Bond employees, who used to work in the building that is now Spike Island Art Space in  Bristol. A commemorative book was made documenting events from their working lives as well as reunion events, book launches, youth workshops and recorded oral histories. This was a Self-initiated project funded by Arts Council England and Heritage Lottery. 

Hospitalfield Physic Garden

Rebecca illustrated the map and explanation leaflet for Hospitalfield physic garden in Arbroath, Scotland.

                                                                                  Artist’s statement

My work explores and documents human behaviour, illuminating the perspectives of individuals.  I am interested in how wider forces such as economics, politics, nature, and social norms shape and affect people’s personal lives. I am drawn to personal accounts, narratives and life stories and use these anecdotes to explore society and how it operates. I take what may be considered mundane objects or ordinary places as my source material because of what they can reveal about people, their past and the events that have shaped their lives. A large amount of my practice is based around drawing. I am continually drawing.

In my wider practice I exhibit both regionally and nationally. I was short listed for the  Jerwood Drawing Prize ( now called the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize) in 2022, 2017 and 2012. I  have also exhibited in 'Drawn' at the Royal West Academy drawing biannual,  and my work had been show in the Royal West Academy Open a number of times. Alongside showing work in London, at galleries such as the, Centre for Recent Drawing,  I have also had  work in a number of regional shows such as Fronteer Gallery Sheffield and Spike Island Test Space in Bristol.

During a show at The Centre for Recent Drawing, London I was part of a panel discussion about the work Led by artist Paul Gravett. The show was a grougp show entitled “Drawing Diary” curated by Artist, curator and writer Sarah Lightman, the show later travelled to a drawing conference at the University of Northampton.  My work has appeared in a number of print and on-line reviews and articles, including Art Rabbit and a-n. I have  been awarded Arts Council funding for a number of projects as well as funding from other sources such as The Heritage Lottery Fund.