about Rebecca's work

Hi! I believe this blog is for us to exchange our ideas before we meet so our meetings will be more efficient, so, since our meeting is looming (Wed 12.30pm canteen right?) I thought I’ll write something about my work now, and I hope I’ll see some of your ideas too! Hopefully that will help us pick a theme for the exhibition that will be relevant to all of our work.

The main visual/aesthetic element in my work at the moment is figurative shadows. In the Blueprint Exhibition I made an installation that concealed a person but publicly displayed his shadow. The materials I often use are white fabric and figures (paper cut-outs or real person), so the effect is quite neutral and low-key. But I would consider the ‘work’ to be the sometimes-vague, sometimes-sharp moving image and the range of interpretations/connotations about human relationships that come from the ephemerality/elusiveness of the shadow’s presence.

Since Minto is not a huge space, and even painters are beginning to move away from making work that hangs on the wall, I was thinking of making a video. I only came up with this idea today so it’s really not-developed, but I imagine it to be something like a projection of moving (or maybe still) shadows.... something like that. :P