Rebecca Gould was born in Scotland in 1980 and she is currently based in Holyhead. Her work takes multiple forms, such as sculpture, painting, video and installation. A wide range of materials is used to create the work, including plastic sheeting, paint, plywood and television monitors, in which we can appreciate the sense of history of the final object as well as its transitional
Rebecca Gould was born in Scotland in 1980 and she is currently based in Holyhead. Her work takes multiple forms, such as sculpture, painting, video and installation. A wide range of materials is used to create the work, including plastic sheeting, paint, plywood and television monitors, in which we can appreciate the sense of history of the final object as well as its transitional character. In her practice, objects retain some of their old features, while also being transformed into something new. Compositions may be changed again to produce updated versions, thus the process is ongoing and the artworks remain unfinished. Gould makes work that can be described as ‘urgent’, in the best sense of the word. Her practice focuses on the immediacy of the act and the transformative power of the artistic gesture. With Gould’s art, it is as if we keep making slight adjustments to our clothes in order for them to fit us better. Alfredo Cramerotti, 2014 (Director, MOSTYN)
Education
2004 – 2005 MA Fine Art, Central St Martin’s, London, UK
1999 – 2002 BA (Hons) Fine Art, First, UWIC, UK
1998 – 1999 Foundation Course in Art & Design, Coleg Menai, UK
Solo Exhibitions
UNTIL 9th NOVEMBER….2014 Claire Danes, Gallery 6, MOSTYN, Llandudno, UK
2010 Outlander, Galeri, Caernarfon, UK
2006 Beauty and The Beast, The Ucheldre Centre, UK
2003 Dixi Trixi, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, UK
2002 Ophelia, The Welsh Museum, Cardiff, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014
Gwenan International, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, UK
2013
Exotic Crop, Goat Major Projects, Cardiff, UK
Conwy Feast Festival, Civic Hall, Conwy, UK
Haus of Helfa, Llawn01 Festival, Llandudno, UK
2012
CAVE art fair, Baltic Creative Campus, Liverpool, UK
The Autobiography of A Super-Tramp, g39, Cardiff, UK
Boeing Way to Gas Street, 22 Gas Street, Birmingham, UK
Microcosm, Departure Foundation, Leeds, UK
Screen from Barcelona, Espacio de Proyectos Sant Pere, Barcelona, Spain
LOCWS International @Adain Avion, National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, UK
2011
Big Deal Sexy 100!!!, Wall to Wall, London, UK
Grange Gardens Sculpture Commission, GALERIE8, London, UK
Artemisia, St David’s Hall, Cardiff, UK
2010
Prop, Departure Gallery, London, UK
The Middle Of Nowhere, Departure Gallery, London, UK
2009
Auxesis, tactileBOSCH, Cardiff, UK
The Shaman Project III, Plas Glyn Y Weddw, Llanbedrog, UK
2008
Forget Me, Gristle Mountain, Fort Brockhurst, UK
Live Art, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy, UK
If You Build It, They Will Come, g39, Cardiff, UK
2007
The Suitcase Project, The Old Library, Cardiff, UK
The Suitcase Project, Beaver Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark
Magical Thinking, Elevator Gallery, London, UK
Old Age, Gristle Mountain, Gosport, UK
O Dreamland, Transition Gallery, Greatstone, UK
Locws International 3, Swansea, UK
Feel Good Feel Bad Boys and Girls, Lange Glasse 28, Ausberg, Germany
Anglesey Arts Show, The Ucheldre Centre, Holyhead, UK
Real Writers Residency Programme, g39, Cardiff, UK
2006
GIFT, Museum MAN, Liverpool, UK
Objects in Waiting, End Gallery, Sheffield, UK
The Shaman Project II, Bilbao, Spain
Summer Exhibition, Contemporary Art Projects, London, UK
Y Lle Celf, The National Eisteddfod of Wales 2006, UK
Askew, Madame Lillies, London, UK
Travelling Without Moving, Oriel Washington, Cardiff, UK
Another Project, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
2005 and before
New Works, Oriel Washington, Cardiff, UK
MA Show, Central St Martin’s, London, UK
On The Underbelly, The Green, Clerkenwell, London, UK
Leviathan, curated by J.J Charlesworth, Candid Arts Centre, London, UK
Young Wales 6, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy, UK
Clean Slate II, BayArt, Cardiff, UK
Awards / Commissions / Bibliography
2013 Review of ‘Exotic Crop’ by Neil McNally, CCQ, Issue 1.
2012 Awarded Departure Foundation bursary studio space
2012 Book publication, ‘It Was Never Going To Be Straightforward’, g39
2011 Invited and shortlisted for Grange Gardens Sculpture Commission
2008 Individual Artist Project Grant, The Arts Council of Wales
2008 ARTY, magazine, no 24
2007 a-n Magazine, LOCWS 3 – Art across the city review, May
2007 LOCWS International 3, catalogue
2007 Commission, LOCWS International 3, Public artwork
2007 ARTY, magazine, no 23
2007 tuchwith, magazine, cyfrol 27
2007 MARMALADE, Don’t Call Us, Call Them, New Talent, magazine, issue 13
2006 a-n Magazine, Beauty and The Beast review, March
