Rebecca Gould

2004-2005 MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martin’s.
1999-2002 BA (Hons) Fine Art, First, UWIC, Cardiff.
1998-1999 Foundation Course in Art & Design, Distinction, Coleg Menai.

Solo Exhibitions
2006 Beauty and The Beast, The Ucheldre Centre, Holyhead.
2003 Dixi Trixi, Spotlight @ Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno.
2002 Ophelia, outside The Welsh Museum, Cardiff.

Group Exhibitions
forthcoming 2007 Locws International 3, Swansea.
2006 Objects in Waiting, End Gallery, Sheffied.
2006 The Shaman Project II, Bilbao, Spain.
2006 Summer Exhibition, FosterArt, London.
2006 The National Eisteddfod, Swansea.
2006 Splinter, Madame Lillies, London.
2006 Askew, Madame Lillies, London.
2006 Travelling Without Moving, Oriel Washington, Cardiff.
2006 Another Product, Cornerhouse, Manchester.
2005 New Works, Oriel Washington, Cardiff.
2005 The Show, Central St Martin’s, London.
2005 On the Underbelly, The Green, Clerkenwell, London.
2005 Leviathan curated by JJ Charlesworth, Candid Arts Centre, London.
2004 Central Saint Martin’s on Tour, Hendre Hall, Bangor.
2003 Young Wales 6, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy.
2002 Clean Slate II, BayArt, Bute Street, Cardiff.
2002 Experimentica, Rise Studios, Cardiff.
2002 IS, g39, Cardiff.
2002 RISE, Rise Studios, Cardiff.

Publications
Hackney Gazette, August 2006.
The National Eisteddfod, Catalogue, 2006.
a-n Magazine, Beauty and The Beast, review, March 2006.
Gallery Guide Europe, 2006.
This is Penarth, Article, 2005.
“Common Area”, Issue 2, Drawings, July/August 2005.
“Common Area”, Issue 1, Drawings, April 2005.
Daily Post, ‘Childlike View is Sweet Inspiration’, Article, 2003.
The National Eisteddfod, Catalogue, Article, 2002.

Awards
Shortlisted for Young Artist Scholarship 2003, The National Eisteddfod.
Shortlisted for Young Artist Scholarship 2002, The National Eisteddfod.

Television
Cwmni Da, Work featured in Young Wales 6, Royal Cambrian Academy, 2003.
Work featured in ‘A Mind to Kill’ Sky One and Channel 5, 2001.

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Rebecca Gould

Artist Statement

My practice has a grotesquely nostalgic presence, having this Disney-like depiction of innocence allows more disturbing elements such as withdrawal and isolation to be amplified.
The physicality that film doesn’t have is brought to life by coupling with sculptural objects. Film and sculpture share and reciprocate, creating something that has moved beyond the object as a sculptural form.
A sense of fantasy and fun combines with the notion of theatricality.
My work has a transformative quality to filter the real and tell stories without altogether collapsing into the entirely fictitious and imaginary.
I am now developing a new series of work inspired by Helen of Troy from The Illiad and The Trojan War. I am still working with the moving image and sculptural forms - at the moment building large scale constructions from cardboard and having monitors inside and part of the installations.

“The sculptural form functioning as an "in-between", a meeting point connecting the real world to a world of fantasy and fairytale. Kitsch dressing tables, luridly-colourful carts and a towering lighthouse contain the films, as the candy cottage that conceals the oven. Utilising manifestly low-tech means as employed for home videos, Gould wields the camera in a provocative, flirtatious, voyeuristic manner. Her work is highly-stylised, intelligent, disturbing and yet queasily entertaining. The worlds that Gould constructs, usually via a form of nonlinear narrative and typically fuse personal memories within a larger historical compass derived from fairytales, folklore and adult fantasy.”

 


Rebecca Gould

 

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