Education
2007
Slade School of Art, London, MFA Fine Art
2001
Goldsmith's College, London, BA Fine Art
1998
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
Solo Exhibitions
2011
Quare, London (forthcoming)
2009
LANSKIP- A collaborative project by Rebecca Birch and Charles Danby, HotelMariaKapel (HMK), Holland
Marking Time- Sussex Barn Gallery, West Dean College, UK
2007
Thirty-seven days to know a Mountain, GaleriAneks, Poznan, Poland
Selected Group Exhibitions and Performance Events
2010
BirchCampbellCostello, Quare, London (3 person show with Lee Campbell, Alexander Costello)
Lecture Hall. FREE SCHOOL. Five Years, London
LOOPS, Chelsea Space, London, event curated by Sam Belinfante
Tales from the Edge of Everything, De La Warr Pavillion, Hastings, event curated by RVCC
2009
REMIX, PROJECKT (online platform)
Storm, performance event at The Whitechapel Art Gallery
Free Art Fair, Barbican, London, with Jasper Joffe, Frog Morris and Lee Campbell
2008
Invention 2, Leicester City Art Gallery OFFSITE (with Rob Smith and Alex Hudson)
Margate Rocks, Margate, curated by Jessica Baum
Play on Words, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich, curated by Lee Campbell
Suburbia, Foreign Press Association, London, curated by Lee Campbell
On Time: The East Wing Collection 8, Courtauld Institute, London
2007
Wildwood, Project Space Leeds, Leeds, with Heather and Ivan Morison, Laura Ford, Rachel Goodyear and Sophie Lascelles
Finding Synesthesia (collaboration with Heather Cornell & Andy Milne) South Bank Centre
Walking and Art Studio Exhibition, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
2006
The Invention of Solitude, The Nunnery Gallery, London, curated by Charles Danby,
(4 person show with Rob Smith, Alex Hudson and Matthew Lutz-Kinoy)
East International 06, Norwich Gallery, Norwich
Boxed Potential, Expodium, Utrecht, Netherlands
Framed, Slade Research Centre, London
2005
Enquire Artists Commission, The Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
2004
Intermission, Spital Square, London
2003
Reduced, Century Gallery, London
Bootleg, Spitalfields, London
2001
Growth and Form, Two10 Gallery, The Wellcome Trust, London
Curatorial
LEDGE
Director and curator of LEDGE project space, Hackney, showing solo artist projects:
Rob Smith: The Pembury Road Spectroscope, February 2010
Sarah Bowker Jones, That big thing under the window, April 2010
www.ledgeproject.org
Field Broadcast
Co-curator, with Rob Smith of online project, Field Broadcast for PROJECKT and
Wysing Arts Centre, May 2010 www.fieldbroadcast.org
MicroPerformance
Creator, founder and curator of Micro-performance events:
ReTable; MicroPerformance: Whitechapel Gallery, London, June 2010
MicroPerformance event as part of 'agency' at The Agency, London, April 2010
Animal Magic MicroPerformance, Milton Keynes Gallery, March 2010
MicroTalks, West Dean
College, UK 2008-2009 onwards
Grants / Awards / Residencies
2009
Hotel MariaKapel, Hoorn, Netherlands, production residency
2008
The Edward James Research Fellowship, West Dean College, University of Sussex
NAN Artists Bursary for Notations Project
2007
Banff Centre, Banff Canada, Walking and Art Residency
The Duveen Travel Scholarship for research in the Arctic Circle
2006
The Chelsea Arts Trust Travel Award for research in California
Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts Research and Development Award
2005
The Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, Enquire Artists Residency and Commission
The South London Gallery, Family Artist in Residence
Bibliography / Reviews
2008
On Time, East Wing Collection Catalogue
AN August 2007, review of Bristlecone at Margate Rocks, by Jessika Worrall
Galeria Aneks 2007 Catalogue, 4 pages full colour
2007
The Guardian, 19.11.07, Review: Finding Synesthesia, reviewed by Sanjoy Roy
BBC Leeds online, review of Wildwood
AN Interface (online publication) Wildwood, reviewed by Justine Grant
The Invention of Solitude, Exhibition Publication with text by Ed Krcma and Lisa Lefevre,
Miser and Now Magazine, Issue 9, Rebecca Birch in conversation with Ed Krcma
2006
East International 06, Exhibition Catalogue with text by Lynda Morris, edited Lynda Morris
2001
Art Review, Class of 2001 Supplement, text by Catriona Warren
Time Out, London, 25.04.01, review by Martin Herbert
Science Magazine, March
Growth and Form Exhibition Publication, published by The Wellcome Trust
Talks and Presentations
2009
Up the Balfron, panel discussion of Corrine Felgate's Just Act Natural, Belfron Tower, London
Agentur, Amsterdam, LANSKIP Cycle video screening and artists talk
Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, LANSKIP Cycle video screening and artists talk
Boterhal, Hoorn, Netherlands, Lanskip introductory talk
University of the Arts Canterbury, performance lecture about art practice
2008
The Education Institute, London, performance lecture about art practice
West Dean College, UK, Fine Art Research Fellow lecture
Slade Research Centre, London, presentation to AHRC Land Art Research Network
2007
Art Academy of Poznan- visiting artist lecture
On Drawing – Presentation at the Slade School of Fine Art at symposium about drawing
Artists Lunchtime Lecture, Chelsea Arts Club, London 2006
East Discourse, Norwich School of Art and Design |