ARTIST
STATEMENT
Rebecca’s practice is heavily autobiographical. Her work is almost always influenced around personal experiences and further fueled by emotions which evoke links to physical places. Current politics periodically underpin her work further by prompting a personal creative response. Concurrent themes of memory, experience and nostalgia are a strong context throughout her work.
Her work is supported by a continuous documentation of photographs, as well as souvenirs and artefacts such as postcards collected throughout her life. These add to the labyrinthine narratives she portrays. Her practice develops from dissecting entangled thoughts and feelings which have no coherent translation directly into words or art, instead using her sketchbook as a self-reflective journal to catalogue and decipher this, eventually materialising into a visual idea.
Rebecca's work can be characterised by somewhat traditional style technical methods with illustrative properties often overlayed with bold contrasting elements such as printing, although her work can often show a fluid like nature when it cokes to the choice of medium. Thee characteristics are a recurring theme within her practice and this is reflective with the transitory nature of her subject matter. Often encompassing domestic features such as elemets around the home which evoke a sense of familiarity within the viewer.
BIO
Rebecca was born in the early 90s in Blackpool where she still resides and always has done despite a few years living in the North East. Currently in her second year of study for a BA Hons in Fine Art & Professional Practice at Blackpool School of Arts.
Always the keen artist from a very young age, from experimenting with things she could find around the house, where now in some ways not a great deal has changed. She is always onto the next creative and takes great pleasure from being able to draw up creative imagination from next to nothing. As a child she was always encouraged to be inquisitive and I was taught to pay attention to the small details around me such as details in architecture and flora and fauna around
As well as being a practising artist Rebecca is currently aiming towards becoming a secondary school art and design teacher, although the two are fairly separate she has hopes that by continuing her own practice, she can keep ideas fresh and keep inspiration flowing into the classroom and be the enthusiastic art teacher that can help shape future generations to be creative in a world where creativity can be stifled.
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