Rebecca Birch

Born 1978

Solo Exhibitions

2009 Rebecca Birch and Charles Danby, collaborative project, Hotel MariaKapel, Holland, forthcoming
2007 Thirty-seven days to know a Mountain, Aneks Gallery, Poznan, Poland

Group Exhibitions

2008 Scene in the Making, Concrete and Glass, London
Drawing on Life, Wellcome Collection, London
Invention (2), Leicester City Gallery OFFSITE, with Rob Smith, Alex Hudson and Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, curated by Charles Danby
StageStruck, Southwark Playhouse, London
Table for Four, Jam Circus, London
SeeMe, BowArts Trust, London
Play on Words, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich, curated by Lee Campbell
Suburbia, Foreign Press Association, London,
On Time, East Wing Collection 8, The Courtauld, London
2007 Wildwood, Project Space Leeds, Leeds
Finding Synesthesia (collaboration with Heather Cornell and Andy Milne) 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
East International 06, Norwich Gallery, Norwich
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 Project space, London
2004 Intermission, Spital Square, London
2003 Reduced, Century Gallery, London
Santa Smiles, Gallery Ols and Co, London
The Kiosk Projector, Kiosk Gallery, London
Bootleg, Spitalfields, London
Brockley Max, 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

Residencies

2007 The Banff Centre, Banff Canada, Walking and Art Residency
2005 The Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, Enquire Artists Residency and Commission
The South London Gallery, Family Artist in Residence

Grants and Awards

2007 The Duveen Travel Scholarship
Nominated artist for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women
2006 The Chelsea Arts Trust Travel Award
Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts Research and Development Award

Bibliography

2008 On Time, East Wing Collection Catalogue
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, Ed. Charles Danby, 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, 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 Herbert
Science Magazine, March 2001
Growth and Form Exhibition Publication, published by The Wellcome Trust
2000 The Gallery Channel, review of Picnic

Talks and Presentations

2007 On Drawing - Presentation at symposium at the Slade School of Fine Art
Artists' Lunchtime Lecture, Chelsea Arts Club, London
2006 East Discourse

Selected Teaching Experience and Community Projects

2007 Bow Arts Trust, facilitating arts projects at Oaklands Secondary School
Milton Keynes Gallery, facilitating video project with young people visiting the gallery
Slade School of Fine Art, post-graduate student tutor for BA Fine Art Media
Creative Partnerships Creative Agent, (Creative Partnerships Thames Gateway)
2006 Towner Art Gallery Eastbourne, Lead artist for All at Sea and associated projects
Accelerate Artist Residency, Creative Partnerships Thames Gateway
2005 South London Gallery, London, artist for The Big Crawl Project
The University of the Arts, London, Community Art Tutor,
Brent Museum, London, Lead Artist for 'A Portrait of Our School', commission
2004 PM Gallery and House, Ealing, Big! Project with A level students, and video project with BTEC students
2003 Peckham Education Action Zone, Artist residency at St James the Great Primary School
2001 Get Art! Chisenhale Gallery, London

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