Approved: 18.09.2015

Rebecca Edelmann

Artist, Maker

Approved: 18.09.2015

Rebecca is fascinated with Catholic saints, and with the objects used in their ceremonies. It is something that, as an atheist she feels excluded from understanding, but which she cannot but help return to, especially at a time in history where faiths see themselves as being under threat, and try react accordingly to.

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  • Location: bristol, South West
  • Artforms: Ceramics, Sculpture
  • Tags: porcelain, gender, ceramics, sculpture, genitals, sex, saint, catholisism, religion, history, plinth
 
 

Artist Statement

Rebecca is fascinated with Catholic saints, and with the objects used in their ceremonies. It is something that, as an atheist she feels excluded from understanding, but which she cannot but help return to, especially at a time in history where faiths see themselves as being under threat, and try react accordingly to.

Rebecca started working with clay as a young teenager, and it is one which continues to fascinate her simply by having such possibility for variation. She is planning bigger constructions, and continuously experiments with new clays, and ways of making.

 

 

 

CV & Education

 

Rebecca lives and works in Bristol with the poet Joel Scarfe, and their two daughters

Past Exhibitions:

  • 18 Aug - 4 Sep 2013: The Joze Show 2013, West Sussex
  •         11 Aug -  17 Aug 2013: Solo exhibition "Picking up Childish Things", The Parlour Rooms, Bristol    
  •  8 Mar - 22nd Mar 2013: Exhibited in the DWF Art organisation's 'Leeds Open Exhibition', West        Yorkshire
  •    16th Nov 2012 - 6th Jan 2013: Christmas Show, It's All 2 Much Gallery, Bristol

  •    25th June - 30th June 2012: Solo Exhibition, Two Years Later, Room 212 , Gloucester Road, Bristol

  •    7th Aug - 21st Aug 2011: Bristol Art Show, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol

  •    16th May - 21st May 2011: Solo Exhibition at the Crypt, Quay Street, Bristol

  •    28th Mar – 2nd Apr 2011: Solo Exhibition, One Year After, Room 212 , Gloucester Road, Bristol

  •    11th Feb – 16th Feb 2011: Volunteers’ Show, The    Centrespace Gallery, Bristol

  •    24th Nov-12th Dec 2010: RWA 158th Autumn Exhibition

  •    8th Oct – 13th Oct 2010: The Big Draw Submission Show, The Centrespace Gallery, Bristol

  •    7th May-16th May 2010: Artspool, Artweeks – The Oxfordshire Artists’ Festival, Oxford

  •    28th Feb-06th Mar 2010: Solo Exhibition, Room 212, Bristol

  •    30th Nov – 23rd Dec 2009: Art Presence at the Centrespace Gallery, Bristol

  •    1st Nov-13th Dec 2009: RWA 157th Autumn Exhibition

  •    1st Oct-11th Nov 2009: The View Gallery, Bristol

  •    Aug-Sep 2009: RWA 7th Open Print Exhibition.

  •    July-Aug 2009: The Temporary Art Space’s Salon Show, The Piece Hall, Halifax

  •    Jan.2009: Under the Bed show at the Cupola Gallery, Sheffield

  •    Oct. 2008: The North Bristol Arts Trail, The Prom, Bristol

  •    Sep.2008: North by North West, Tate Liverpool, as part of the Independents during the Liverpool Biennale.

  •    Oct. 2007: Group exhibition with Peripheral in the Saltaire Arts Trail.

  •    Mar. 2007: Group Exhibition at Whitehall Waterfront, Leeds, with artists’ collective Peripheral