BIO
An artist based in London, Rebecca Lennon works across media including video, text, performance, sound and music to think about and play with the non-linear shapes and rhythms of the voice, memory and the speaking body. Exhibiting internationally, across contemporary art and experimental music platforms, radio and recently, publishing, Rebecca graduated from the Slade School of Art London MFA in 2010, and is a regular visiting lecturer at universities such as Arts University Bournemouth and Royal College of Art. Recent / upcoming group exhibitions and performances include: Kaunas Film Festival, Lithuania, 2020, Kunstraum, London 2019, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, 2021, Cafe Oto, London, 2022, Galeria Duarte Sequiera, Braga, Portugal, 2021 with solo shows at Southwark Park Galleries, London 2021, Primary, Nottingham, 2020, Almanac, Turin, Italy, 2019 and Matts Gallery, London, 2018. Rebecca featured in ‘On Care, an anthology of artists writing published by MA Bibliotheque in 2020, BBC Late Junction 2019/2020 and on a collection of artist interpretations of scores by writer and artist Salomé Voegelin released on vinyl in 2022.
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EDUCATION
|2021| PhD Goldsmiths (Fine Art and Music) | London (currently paused)
|2008 - 2010| M.F.A. Fine Art (Media) | Slade School of Art | London
|2001 - 2004| B.A. Fine Art | Time Based Media | Sheffield Hallam University | Sheffield
|2000 - 2001| Fine Art Foundation | Manchester Metropolitan | University | Manchester
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Past
|2021| Liquid i The Knot Commons | MattFlix | Matts Gallery | London
|2021| The Knot Commons | Dilston Grove, Southwark Park Galleries and Matts Gallery | Oct 15-31 | London
|2021| LIQUID i | Primary | 21 May - 10 July | Nottingham >
|2019| Whip Derelict | Almanac Inn | 21 June - 21 July | Turin
|2018| Words are Angular Sharp Tenant | Matts Gallery | 19-28 Oct | London
|2016| Eat My Bankruptcy Baby | 23 June - 3 July | Chalton Gallery | London
|2012| Don’t let it End this way tell them I said something | 7-22 Sept | Bloc | Sheffield
|2010| We are stuck here together | 28 Oct- 28 Nov | Ceri Hand Gallery | Liverpool
|2008| Since they got rid of Time | Galerie Metro | Berlin
PERFORMANCES
Current / Forthcoming
|2022| Cafe Oto | Thanet Tape Centre event
|2022| Cafe Oto | Salomé Voegelin album launch
Past
|2021| At Practise | David Dale Gallery (DDG) | June 19 | Glasgow >
|2021| Canon, Choir, Chant (Leakings of Words and Fish)| Jan 14 | Online in Collaboration with Primary Nottingham >
|2019| Constructions 3 curated by Mat Jenner and Kate Carr | Taco | Thamesmead >
|2019| Eating the Wallpaper collapses the Sharp lines, featuring Stella Kajombo and Carl Gent | Kunstraum | 4 Oct | London
|2019| Reading at To Whom This May Concern | Tenderbooks | 30 May | London
|2019| Singing Knives Records event | Jabberwocky | 21 April | Sheffield
|2019| Performance at Apologies in Advance | I'klectic | 16 Feb | London
|2018| The Ol’ Switcheroo | Jupiter Woods | 13 April - 19 May | London
|2018| Open Sound curated by Paul Purgas (Performed as Diet Terror with Benedict Drew ) | March 17 | Outpost | Norwich
2014 | Supernormal Festival | 8-10 Aug | Braziers Park | Oxfordshire
2013 | DentalFlux | Dec 4 | Southbank Centre | London
|2013| The Everything and Nothing Problem | June 25 | Jerwood | With Ceri Hand Gallery | London
|2012| Notes on an Autobiography | Limoncello Gallery | 5 Sept | London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS, RADIO
Current
|2021| Blistering Tongues | Galeria Duarte Sequeira | Oct 31 -Nov 27 | Braga | Portugal
Past
|2021| Reverberations: A response to the Her Noise archive | Chelsea Space | Chelsea College of Art
|2020| Kaunas International Film Festival, Videogramos | 17th - 27th of Sept | Kaunas, Lithuania
|2020| Start 2020 sounding right | BBC3 Late Junction | Produced by Jack Howson | On Radio: 3 Jan. Online until 3 Feb
|2020| Essex Rd 6 | TinType Gallery | 9 Jan - 9 Feb | London
|2019| 6X6 | Screening at SET | London
|2019| Tusk Festival | 11-13 Oct | Newcastle
|2019| BBC3 Late Junction mix by Benedict Drew | On radio: 20 March. Online until: 20 April
|2018| Whitstable Biennial | June 5-10 | Whitstable
|2018| The Society for the Common & Good | Institut Kunst Atelier Haus | 13 - 15 April | Basel
|2017| Performing Objects | Kunstraum | June 3 | London
|2017| Mount Florida Screenings 07 | March 24 | Glasgow
|2017| 48 Hr Film Screening | Almanac Projects | 6-7 Jan | London
|2016| Supernormal Festival | 3-8 Aug | Braziers Park | Oxfordshire
|2015| Immersive Frames | Nov 26- Jan 6 | Celda Contemporanea | Mexico City
|2014| Escape Routes (curated by Benedict Drew) | 2-24 Aug | Limbo | Margate
|2014| Foam (curated by Matt Jenner) | AND/OR Gallery, London
|2014| This Space We Are | 29 March – 2 May | The International 3 | Manchester
|2014| Notes on an Autobiography (curated by Rob Lye) | 16 Jan-8 March | ASC Gallery | London
|2014 | Arte Mexico | 29 Jan | Ex Teresa Museum | Mexico City
|2013| Show | Dec 22 - Jan 10 | Parallel | Oaxaca | Mexico
|2013| Transitio MX Festival | 20-29 Sept | Mexico City, Mexico
|2013| Fresh Trauma | 24 May-29 June | Ceri Hand Gallery | London
|2013| Cacotopia | Anthony Burgess Foundation | 24 May - 14 June | Manchester
|2013| Tourist Information Centre | Supercollider | 29 March - 11 May | Blackpool
|2013| The Hand That Holds The Desert Down | Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop | 15 March | Edinburgh
|2013| We Object (curated by Benedict Drew) | AidandAbet | 14 March- 18 April | Cambridge
|2012| Move Forward – New Mexican European Media Art | 5- 21 Oct | Halle | Germany
|2012| Writtle Calling | Curated by Mellissa Appleton | 11-18th Sept | Essex
|2012| Still Outside or Unexplained | Open Eye Gallery | 22 June - 2 Sept | Liverpool
|2012| Seven Chapters (curated by Louisa Martin) | Banner Repeater | London
|2011| Memory of a Hope | Ceri Hand Gallery | 05 Aug - 03 Sept| Liverpool
|2010| Black Hole Hums B Flat | Ceri Hand Gallery| 11-17 Oct | London
|2010| Making Ships in Bottles |16 May - 29 July | Cafe Gallery Projects | London
|2010| The Economy of the Gift | 9 April - 5th June | A Foundation | Liverpool
|2010| Spasticus Artisticus | Curated by Jota Castro & Christian Viveros-Faune |15 Jan - 27 Feb | Ceri Hand Gallery | Liverpool
PUBLIC TALKS / LECTURES
Forthcoming
|Nov 25 2021| Artists Talk | London College of Communication, CRiSAP Sound Arts Visiting Practitioners series | Curated by Annie Goh
Recent
|Sept 31| Screening of films, artists talk and conversation with artist Sophie Jung | The Art Institute | MA Fine Art | University of Applied Science and Art in Northwestern Switzerland | Basel | Switzerland
CURATED PROJECTS
|2013| Fresh Trauma, featuring work by Edwin Burdis, Heather Phillipson, Benedict Drew, Shana Moulton, Gabriele Beveridge, Chooc Ly Tan, Angus Fairhurst | 24 May-29 June | Ceri Hand Gallery | London
|2013| The Everything and Nothing Problem curated with Louis Martin, featuring performances by Francesco Pedraglio, Beth Collar, Angus Braithwaite, Mary Hurrell and others | June 25 | Jerwood Art Space in collaboration with Ceri Hand Gallery | London
|2008| Open Eye Gallery Liverpool, Curator on various projects.
|2006| 37 Seconds | Twice monthly screening for The Big Screen Liverpool commissioned by FACT Liverpool, Liverpool Biennial & BBC.
RESIDENCIES / PRIZES
|2019- 2020| DYCP Award | Arts Council England
|2018 / 2019| Almanac Residency | Turin | Italy
|2016| Supernormal residency, Braziers park, Oxfordshire
|2015| Dezado Residency, Chiapas, Mexico
|2013-14| Arts Council England residency, Mexico City, Mexico
|2012| EMARE Award for residency at CANTE (Centro de las Artes y Nuevas Technologias), San Luis Potosi, Mexico selected by FACT, Liverpool.
PUBLISHED WRITING
|2020| On Care, ed. Rebecca Jagoe and Sharon Kivland. Published by MA Bibliotecque. Buy here >
COLLABORATION
|2021| Text by Sophie Jung in response to Liquid i at Primary, Nottingham Download here >
MUSICAL RELEASES
|2021| Mouths - Thanet Tape Centre Release inc. mix by Benedict Drew coming soon
|2022| Salome Voegelin Scores vinyl release
RECENT REVIEWS / PRESS
Online:
2021 Burlington Contemporary by Francesca Curtis and Kathryn Lloyd >
2020 This is Tomorrow by Jaroslava Tomanova >
2018 The Quietus by Allan Gardner >
2018 Studio International by Henry Broome >
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