Rebecca Waterworth

Artist Statement:

“I approach the process of making in a contemplative and meditative manner, which carefully considers the use of various found materials, images, objects and thoughts (often from intimate moments in my domestic or natural environment) as elements that can be weaved into narrative constellations which references both visual and acoustic ambience and resonance.

My work seeks to understand how the composition of ‘parts’ may reflect a ‘whole’ – a form of constructing art that uses both logic (pattern, repeat, association) and imagination (chance, memory, motifs). This very process of piecing together my work is key to my practice, and so rather than use a linear method of production, I follow intuitive decisions as a means to think through ideas ‘by hand’, meaning my work is often cannibalised and from this entropy reformed into ‘new’ works that contain an internal logic. Collage therefore, in its broadest sense (as a means to orchestrate and layer disparate parts into a textual experience for the viewer), is important to me”

Medium & Specialty: Mixed Media Artist

Sun Pier Resident Since: 2024

Exhibitions and Projects:

  • 2024 – Sound Image Festival Greenwich University

  • 2022 – Kent Artists Open Selected Works Turner Contemporary Margate
  • 2020 – Commonplace Exhibition Herbert Read Gallery Canterbury
  • 2019 – Performing the Object Mixed Media Installation UCA Project Space Brewery Tap Folkestone
  • 2018 – Collectress Light Dial part 3 re performed at Leaf Hall Eastbourne as part of Devonshire Collective guest curation programme
  • 2018 – Performing the Object Mixed Media Installation Crate Project Space Margate
  • 2017 – Collectress Light Dial part 2 re performed for Digital Materials Conference UCA Rochester

Education and Training:

  • 2003 – 2005 University of Reading Master of Fine Art

  • 1997 – 1998 University of Brighton Post Graduate in Education Art and Design
  • 1991 – 1995 Falmouth School of Art BA (Hons) Fine Art

Awards and Recognition:

  • 2016 and 2017 University for the Creative Arts Research Fund
  • PRS for Music Foundation Women Making Music Award
  • The Presidents Fund Edinburgh Associations of University Women
  • Rootstein Hopkins Foundation Grant

“My practice is inter-disciplinary, working across drawing, painting, collage, film/animation, sound and installation this is in order to allow for a flexibility to material and research”

Rebecca Waterworth

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Sun Pier House is home to 28 working studios shared by 33 professional artists and makers. Undoubtedly forming one of the most diverse and vibrant creative communities on the riverside.

Our residents represent a wide range of contemporary art and craft practices. Within our building you’ll find a tattooist, stop-motion animator, silversmith, performance artist, milliner, illustrator, graphic designer, painter, photographer and many more creative professionals working across disciplines.

Together, our residents reflect the strength and diversity of contemporary creative practice today. With every visit to Sun Pier House, you are not just stepping into a gallery, you are entering a working community of artists and makers shaping the cultural life of our area every day.