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 |