Rebecca Birch
Projects / CV / Micro-Performance / Text / Contact / Back
 
 

Solo Exhibitions

2009
LANSKIP, Collaboration with Charles Danby, HMK (Hotel MariaKapel) Hoorn, Netherlands
Progress, Sussex Barn Gallery, West Dean, UK
2007
36 Days to Know a Mountain, GaleriAneks / Galeria Miejska Arsenal, Poznan, Poland

Group Exhibitions / Screening / Performance

2009
Free Art Fair (performance programmme) The Barbican Centre, London

Red Velvet Curtain Club presents Storm, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
REMIX, PROJECKT (online platform)
2008
Scene in the Making, part of Concrete and Glass, London
Drawing on Life, The Wellcome Collection, London
Invention 2, Leicester City Art Gallery, curated by Charles Danby
StageStruck, Southwark Playhouse, London
A table for Four, Jam Circus, London 
See Me, Bowarts Trust, London
Margate Rocks 2008, Margate Rocks, Margate
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
Finding Synesthesia (collaboration with Heather Cornell & Andy Milne) Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London
Walking and Art Studio Exhibition, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
Communicators II, performance and screening event, Shoreditch Church, London
Trust Travel Recipients Exhibition, Chelsea Arts Club, London
Turtle: Image, Music, Text, Slade Research Centre, London
2006 
The Invention of Solitude, The Nunnery Gallery, London, curated by Charles Danby
East International 06, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, selected by Jeremy Deller and Dirk Snaervoort
Boxed Potential, Expodium, Utrecht, Netherlands
Framed, Slade Research Centre, London
Artist’s Film Night, Camden Arts Centre, London
2005 
Enquire Artists’ Commission, The Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
BYO Resource, I-cabin, London
2004 
Intermission, Spital Square, London, curated by Sarah Grainger Jones
2003 
Reduced, Century Gallery, London
Santa Smiles, Gallery Ols and Co, London
The Kiosk Projector, Kiosk Gallery, London
Bootleg, Spitalfields Trust, London
2001 
Growth and Form, Two10 Gallery, The Wellcome Trust, London
2000
Picnic, Margaret Harvey Gallery, University of Hertfordshire, St Albans
1998
Do you want fries with that? The Custard Factory, Birmingham

Curatorial

Creator, founder and curator of Micro-performance events (London- The Montegue Arms and Jam Circus) and Micro-talks, West Dean College, UK  (2008 onwards) Contributor to PROJECKT, an experimental curatorial platform broadcasting work via the internet

Education

Slade School of Art, UCL, London, Master of Fine Art, 2007
Goldsmith’s College, London, BA Fine Art, 2001
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, 1998

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
Long-listed artist for the MaxMara Art Prize for Women
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, edited Charles Danby published Aston and Horrox, ISBN 978-9549748-I-6
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, published NSAD, ISBN 1-872482-80-5
2001
01, Goldsmiths Degree Show Publication, 2001
Art Review, Class of 2001 Supplement, text by Catriona Warren
Time Out, London, 25.04.01, review by Martin Hernert
Science Magazine, March 2001
Growth and Form Exhibition Publication, published by The Wellcome Trust
2000
The Gallery Channel, review of Picnic, August

Talks and Presentations

2009
Up the Balfron, guest speaker on 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 for art students from across London
West Dean College, UK, Fine Art Research Fellow lecture
Slade Research Centre, London, talk and screening of new work to the AHRC Land Art Research Network
2007
Art Academy of Poznan- visiting artist lecture
On Drawing – Presentation at the Slade School of Fine Art at symoposium around the use of drawing with contemporary practice
Artists’ Lunchtime Lecture, Chelsea Arts Club, London
2006
East Discourse