BIO
An artist and researcher based in London, Rebecca Lennon works across media including sound, video, writing and performance. She is currently doing a PhD at Goldsmiths on Sonic Anarchitectures, researching the potential of sound and voice to build new architectures and worlds that become anarchic sonic acts of resistance- from medieval nuns creating new monasteries with voice, to brutalist megastructures turned into sound systems, high rise tower blocks turned into pirate radio broadcast devices, and collective protest choirs entering political and military buildings through walls and fences. As part of this PhD she is working on Estate Choir, an improvised collective vocal collaboration with her neighbours in a housing estate in Queensbury, North West London.
She has exhibited widely and has taught at universities such as Arts University Bournemouth BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths Fine Art Extension, Royal College of Art MA Contemporary Fine Art Practice, London & The Art Institute, MA Fine Art, FHNW, Basel where she loves talking to students about their projects. She's also done creative workshops at galleries, museums and youth centres.
Rebecca featured in ‘On Care, an anthology of artists writing published by MA Bibliotheque in 2020, has released music on Flaming Pines and Thanet Tape Centre and is currently Artist in Residence at Reduced Listening where she is exploring radio as a form for her artistic and research practice.
CV
RESEARCH
|2022- 2027| PhD, Art and Music, Goldsmiths | London. Thesis: Sonic Anarchitectures & Polyphonic Worldmaking
|2026| Brief Encounters Journal, Issue 11, Architectures of Power
RADIO (production)
|2026| Artist in Residence at Reduced Listening
|2026| Wild Life of Sound, Mix Tape Collaboration with Ella Finer, Late Junction, BBC Radio 3, May
RADIO (featured)
|2026| Atmospheric Densities mix by Kate Carr | Resonance FM, 26th March
|2026| Estuary Magic #30 - Thanet Tape Centre Special (Vol 2) | Resonance FM, February
|2020| Start 2020 sounding right | BBC3 Late Junction | Produced by Jack Howson | 3 Jan - 3 Feb
|2019| BBC3 Late Junction mix by Benedict Drew | 20 March- 20 April
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
Future
|2026| The Hildegard von Bingen society for gardening companions with Sophie Seita and Naomi Woo
Past
|2025| Bleet, London >
|2021| At Practise | David Dale Gallery (DDG) | June 19 | Glasgow >
|2021| Canon, Choir, Chant (Leakings of Words and Fish)| With Carl Gent, Sophie Jung and Rebecca Jagoe | 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
Past
|2021| Blistering Tongues | Galeria Duarte Sequeira | Oct 31 -Nov 27 | Braga | Portugal
|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| Essex Rd 6 | TinType Gallery | 9 Jan - 9 Feb | London
|2019| 6X6 | Screening at SET | London
|2019| Tusk Festival | 11-13 Oct | Newcastle
|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
|Nov 25 2021| Artists Talk | London College of Communication, CRiSAP Sound Arts Visiting Practitioners series | Curated by Annie Goh
|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
|2023| London Performance Studios, Seeding Space Residency
|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.
EDITIONS
Print Edition at Matts Gallery
PUBLISHED WRITING
|2020| On Care, ed. Rebecca Jagoe and Sharon Kivland. Published by MA Bibliotecque. Buy here >
TEXT COLLABORATION
|2022| Text by Rebecca Jagoe in response to The Knot Commons at Southwark Park Galleries. Download here >
|2021| Text by Sophie Jung in response to Liquid i at Primary, Nottingham Download here >
MUSICAL RELEASES
|2026| Collapsing Tape. Experiments in Rupture and Repair Buy / Download here >
|2021| Mouths - Thanet Tape Centre Release inc. mix by Benedict Drew. Buy / Download here >
|2021| Salomé Voegelin, Paint your lips while singing your favourite Pop Song, Album of Scores featuring Rebecca Lennon, Rhodri Davies, KMRU. Released on Vinyl on Flaming Pines. Buy / Download here >
EDUCATION
|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
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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