Travel

Unpacking my Archive of work up to May 2022 – an opportunity to share a quick overview of my work to date. Currently, I am engaged in research for a new chapter of work. In doing so, I unpacked a part of my archive to best understand my linear progression to date and provide context to new developments. Archive of the Natural World Lichen suspended in the kitchen with...

The Vermeer series is a succession of curved relief panels. Their reflective glass surfaces refract the room or the environment so that the viewer’s perception switches between the image and the reflection.  Each piece starts as a painting onto glass with enamels, which is then fired to fix the pigments into the glass. The glass is then cut and collaged to create a faceted, pixilated...

Rise 4 in progress in the studio 2020 Three Artists – Open Studio Event to coincide with Arts by The Sea Sunday 27th September and Sunday 4th October 12.00 noon to 5.00 pm by appointment Artspace Studio, 44 Southwood Avenue, Southbourne, Bournemouth BH6 3QB David Bird – recent photographs. David is a photographer and lecturer with over 30 years’ experience, from frontline...

Hauser & Wirth Update: I am delighted to take part in this philanthropic initiative and my work will feature in Homegrown by Hauser & Wirth from 10th July. It goes live at 10:00 EST and 15:00 GMT. Hauser & Wirth Special thanks to the New York Homegrown team. As previously mentioned, the following press release was featured on Hauser and Wirth’s website....

Hauser & Wirth Rebecca Newnham has maintained a relationship with the art gallery Hauser & Wirth since before the Coronavirus pandemic. Hauser & Wirth recently announced that it would be unveiling a new platform called “Homegrown’, dedicated to the sale of artworks by the gallery’s staff, family and freelancers. The following text was taken from a Press...

As I flew from London to Moscow, then Moscow to Tokyo, people in Wuhan were dying.  The new Coronavirus was spreading, and the pandemic was unimaginable to me. Everywhere people were wearing masks, unsure of how to avoid the threat. The next leg of my unprecedented journey was New Zealand. My journey to New Zealand was punctuated with concerns surrounding the virus, it is a difficult...

Glass Worlds: a series of imploded glass and concrete spheres. As the pandemic extended, my thoughts were taken over by this unprecedented situation, with fear for the safety of my loved ones and frustration at the environmental disasters this planet endures. My automatic reaction to this is to express it with glass. In my opinion, disrespect towards the current ecosystem has led to...

Room dividers with Japanese Motifs in the Tokyo National Museum, Japan. Tokyo National Museum, Japan, is unlike any museum I have ever visited. It is enormous, organised and has lots of space. It actually succeeds in organising millennia of artefacts and sculptures into a semblance of order. One gallery begins by explaining: “Japan has three main traditions of sculpture, Buddhist...

TeamLabs Japan Interactive wave room in TeamLab Borderless, Tokyo Following the intoxicating, sublime serenity, and stimulation of the Nezu Museum and Gallery in Tokyo, Japan, we went to Team Borderless. This is a creative digital mecca, a collaboration of minds expressed in a wealth of innovative, stimulating visual feast. It is fully immersive, saturating, fabulous and completely...

Corridor in the Nezu Museum, Tokyo. The Nezu Museum is a museum and art gallery in Japan with an ancient garden. This was the first Japanese Garden I have visited and was completely seduced. So many careful details: trees are wrapped with matted rushes, like a tree bracelet. There is no grass! Instead, there is bare earth or moss or stones, raked gravel The planting was meticulous, water...