Rebecca has a Bachelor of Visual Arts, a Master of Art of the Public Space, and a Graduate Certificate in Creative and Professional Writing. Her creative practice is based on the development of many different types of artworks, from single medium to multi-disciplinary and multi-medium artworks. Her work negotiates human and non-human relationships with concern to the natural world, the passing of time and globalised human environments.
Rebecca's artworks mainly focus on Australian flora and fauna - and occasionally architecture she finds interesting or significant - to connect viewers to Australia's natural and urban ecologies. Her process reflects on the subjects of habitat loss, urbanisation, ecological distress, environmental change, and the effect of human action or infrastructure on natural ecologies. In depth research is combined with site specificity, plus personal writings and drawing to form a platform for the creation of her single or collective artworks.
The intention of Rebecca's art practice is to encourage environmental and historical awareness. She aims to foster dialogical exchanges and raise environmental concerns, as well as project her own emotional connections in an Australian context, and when relevant, with regards to the global ecosystem.
Arts Education
Graduate Certificate (Creative and Professional Writing), Griffith University, 2020
Writing Poetry, Griffith University via Open Universities Online, 2018
Master of Arts (Art in the Public Space), RMIT, Victoria, 2017 - 2018
Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts Immersion), Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, 2013 - 2016
Certificate III in Design Fundamentals, Central TAFE, Western Australia, 2004
Arts Employment
Freelance Writer, IMPRINT Magazine, 2021 - 2025.
Internet Store Manager, Senior Art Supplies, Victoria, 2018 - 2025.
Art Team Leader. Colosoul Group Inc., Western Australia, Jan - July 2015.
>Colosoul Magazine Art Editor
>Gallery Director at The Colosoul Basement Gallery
Life Drawing Tutor. Foxy Hen's Parties, Western Australia, 2015 - 2016.
Children's Art Tutor. Studio 2, Townsville, Queensland, 2011 - 2012.
Art in the Public Space
2021
"Acts of Hope" Immerse Festival, Stamford Park & The Basin, City of Knox, Victoria, October-November
2018
"Birdsong" Melbourne Metro Tunnel Commission, A'Beckett Urban Square, Melbourne, Victoria, March-Ongoing.
2017
"The Proverbial Bird" Immerse Festival, Knox Community Art Center, Victoria, November - February (2018).
"Seasonal Garden" Collaborative Project for New Academic Street, RMIT University, Victoria, September -
October.
2016
"ECOART Biodiversity Sculpture Walk" With Nelia Small Community Enhancement Reference Group, Nelia,
Queensland, Permanent Work.
"The Red List (Extinct)" Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe Beach, Western Australia, March.
"Displaced" ArtsHum Graduate Show, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, November - December.
2015
"The Red List (Extinct)" GOMBOC Annual Sculpture Survey, GOMBOC Sculpture Park, Western Australia, June.
Exhibitions
2024
Walking Trough Frankston, Frankston Art Centre Curved Wall, Frankston, Victoria, 7th March - 20th April.
Frankston Art Show, Seaford Community Center, Seaford, Victoria, 29th March - 14th April.
2023
Renew (FAC Open Exhibition), Frankston Art Centre Cube Gallery, Frankston, Victoria, 4th - 25th August.
2022
Feather and Flora (Solo Exhibition), Mornington Library and Council Building, Mornington, Victoria, August.
2021
Pat Cronin Foundation - Be Wise (Fundraiser), Montsalvat, Eltham, Victoria, 10th April - 2nd May.
2018
Affinity for the Bird (Solo exhibition), Montsalvat, Eltham, Victoria, 13th Dec - 6th January 2019.
Story of the Raven (Joint show with Tammy Chatfield), Alternating Current Art Space, Melbourne, Victoria, June.
Knox Art Show, Knox Community Arts Center, Bayswater, Victoria, March.
2017
Between The Sheets: Artists Books, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, June - July.
Museum of Lost Public Notices, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, May - June.
Between The Sheets: Artists Books, Gallery Central, Perth, Western Australia, March.
2016
ArtsHum (Graduate Show), Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, November - December.
Arts 101 (Fundraiser), Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, August.
2015
Transit Lounge, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, November - December.
[Un]Framed [Un]Limited (Fundraiser), Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, October.
Fold, Impact 9 World Printmaking Conference, Hangzhou, China, September.
Impressions/Corrosions, Spectrum Project Space Cabinet (Solo), Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western
Australia, September.
The 4.115 Exhibition, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, July - August.
The Materials Murmur, Spectrum Project Space Gallery, Perth, Western Australia, June.
Nurture Nepal (Fundraiser), The Basement Gallery, Perth, Western Australia, May.
Lights Out Art Festival Pop Up Exhibition (Fundraiser), Fremantle, Western Australia, April.
Between The Sheets: Artists Books, Gallery Central, Perth, Western Australia, March.
The Basement Gallery Launch, Perth, Western Australia, February.
2014
Flourish, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, December.
Awards/ Grants
Southern Gulf Community Capacity Incentive Grant
>ECO-Art Biodiversity Sculpture Walk in conjunction with NSCERG. Nelia, Queensland, July 2016.
The New Colombo Scholarship
>A two week internship in design and cultural studies at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
(Print college), Shanghai, China, September 2015.