No Woman is an Island
Film – David Bird, soundtrack – Joan Tower
No Woman is an Island runs until 30th June 2022.
No Woman is an Island is a curated collection of works by seven award-winning female artists: Cath Bloomfield, Phoebe Cummings, Nicky Knowles RWA, Debbie Lee, Rebecca Newnham FRSS, Sarah Purvey and Patricia Volk RWA FRSS.
The Exhibition
I am delighted to be included in this...
Unpacking the Archive
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...
No Woman is an Island
No Woman is an Island is a curated collection of works by seven award-winning women artists: Cath Bloomfield, Phoebe Cummings, Nicky Knowles RWA, Debbie Lee, Rebecca Newnham FRSS, Sarah Purvey and Patricia Volk RWA FRSS.
I am delighted to be included in this exhibition, curated by Jacquiline Creswell, at the Vanner Gallery, which brings together mid-career women artists in...
Quercus
Quercus has a new glass skin, added in 2021. The
glass was painted in response to experiencing ancient woodland. At winter
solstice 2020, at the end of a year like no other we had ever known, I visited
Kingley Vale, an ancient yew forest on the South Downs. The limbs of yew entwined
and grew together as if they were a single organism, and created primitive vaulted
spaces which are natural...
Aeolian in progress
Roots restaurant asked me to design a
suspended glass installation earlier in 2021. Roots is run by Jan and Stacey,
who are passionate about food and art. My studio is not far from Roots, we are
both on the top of a cliff in Southbourne, and it gets breezy here by the sea!
Aeolian references the repeated rolling motion and sound of the rush of the wind, and the waves of the sea which...
The Rise series of sculptures and Rise 5
Rise are a series of sculptures which stand upright and are characterised by profiles which draw undulating wave forms. The symmetrical waves separate negative space and the stacked forms. A rhythm is created by the repeated volume and line, and the whole has a taught glass skin which separates the airspace and the mass, washing it in colour, a painted response in glass enamels.
The...
Rise 4
The Rise sculptures are a series of works that have grown
out of my interest in how matter and energy move and the laws of physics which
govern our understanding of the world. Their repeated curves, ascending from
the earth towards space, echo the forms of waves of pure energy. They can be
seen as sound waves, electromagnetic or heat waves, or communication waves
through water or air....
Rebecca in New Zealand: Inspiration and Travel Blog (Part Five)
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...
The Product of the Pandemic: Glass Globes
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...