Biography
Biography
Born in London, Rebecca has lived, worked and studied in Ireland for the past 30 years. Her work is held in public and private collections in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Switzerland, U.K., and U.S.A.. In 2021 she was awarded the Arts Council agility award, and in 2019 she was selected for the Mark Rothko Arts Centre residency.
Education
2012-13: Masters fine art and process, CIT Crawford College Art and Design, Cork
2003-2007: BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting, CIT Crawford College Art and Design, Cork
1994: Hdip Co-op Organisation, Food Marketing, and Rural Development, University College Cork
1988-91: BSC (Hons) Sociology, Kingston University, Surrey
Solo Exhibitions:
2021: MTU Gallery, Cork, Slip Stream, release of new publication Edgelands with an essay by Sarah Kelleher to accompany this new body of work
2020: Seamus Ennis Arts Centre, Naul, Open To Art, On-line exhibition.
2017: Stern View Gallery, Cork, The More You See the Less You Hold. A new publication Still There and Ready, (in collaboration with Sarah Hayden) was released to coincide with this exhibition and was selected by Oonagh Young for the 2017 Dublin Art Book Fair in Temple Bar gallery.
2016: Seamus Ennis Arts Centre, Naul, Vestiges of Place, selected solo show.
2015: Stern View Gallery, Cork: Provisional View an invited solo show at Sternview Gallery as part of music and arts Festival Sounds from A Safe Harbour.
2013: Parade, Margate, UK, Situate, gallery-based residency and exhibition.
2010: Enniskillen Visual Arts Festival, Installation of 30 paintings of postcard dimensions.
2009: Doswell Gallery, Rosscarberry, Co. Cork, Soft Days.
Selected Group Exhibitions and talks:
2022: November: Building Bridges Art Exchange, Los Angeles, The Irish Contemporaries (1)
2022: October: Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Earth Rising, exhibition and performance with Breaking Cover Collective.
2022: August: Lord mayors Pavilion, Cork, Sample Studios Exhibition.
2022: August: Lavit Gallery, Cork, Clay and Canvas
2021: December: A4 Sounds, Dublin, In Cahoots with the Earth
2021: December: Sternview Gallery, Cork, Annual 4
2021: September: Irish Museum Modern Art, Breaking Cover Performance,
2021: July: West Cork Arts Centre, Effervescence
2021: June: West Cork Arts Centre, Standstill
2020: December: Sternview Gallery, Cork , Annual 3.
2020: December: Lavit Gallery, Cork, Christmas Exhibition
2020: December: The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Sample-Studios Members Show
2020: September: Sternview gallery, Cork, Memory Edits curated by Pádraig Spillane.
2020: August-October: Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford, Stories From Lismore and Beyond curated by Paul McAree.
2020: July: Thissio, Athens, Athens Art Open.
2020: January: Latvian National Library, Riga, Group Exhibition curated by The Mark Rothko Art Centre.
2019: December: This is a Painting Show, Sternview Gallery, Cork.
2019: Oct-November: Exhibition, residency/symposium at The Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia.
2019: July: Lewisham Art House, London, We each have our own landscape.
2019: May: Thompson House, Cork, Design Pop.
2018: November: Lavit Gallery, Cork, Small works
2018: August: Municipal Art Gallery of Piraeus, Athens
2108: July: Misc Arts, Timisoara, Romania,
2018: June: Gonzo Unit, Thresholds, Thessaloniki, Greece
2018: May: Art number 23, The Old Biscuit Factory, London.
2017: Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, Meanwhile.
2016: Visual, Carlow, Art works; selected by Annie Fletcher and Claire Feeley as part of Carlow arts festival
2016: Walcot Chapel, Bath, UK, Utopia Dystopia; as part of Fringe Arts Bath
2015: CIT Crawford School of art, invited speaker, and exhibitor at There’s a ghost in my house 2, symposium, and exhibition.
2014: Doswell Gallery, Rosscarberry, Ireland ,Exposure
Tactic Gallery, Cork, Sulumuc
2013: Doswell Gallery Selected group exhibition
2012: Cork School of Architecture MA art & process degree show Outbox
2012: Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, (un)doing, Engagements with process
2011: Elysian, Cork; Art Embassy, as part of Cork Art Trail
2011: Doswell Gallery, Rosscarberry, Ireland, Land and sea
2011: Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Land and Sea, A group of 4 selected landscape artists.
2010: Miami SCOPE Art Fair Selected.
2010: Ballymaloe Grain Store, Cork, Harvest, an exhibition of 7 women Artists
2010: Affordable art fair, Battersea Park, London represented by St.art gallery
2010: Mill Cove Gallery, Castletownberre, Awards Show selected for the New Year Show
2009: St.art Gallery, Twickenham, U.K., Collection 1
2008: Gallerie Nautique, Cork, Group Show
2007: CIT Crawford College of Art, Cork, Degree Show 2007