Based in Glasgow, Rebecca is an emerging multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the comedic, vulnerable and repetitive absurdness of everyday ordinary life. She is currently working on exploring ideas of an ‘elsewhere’, a place where everything has a strange familiarity. Through sculpture, text, drawing, and performance, she replicates copies of original objects and distort them until they resemble an object you faintly recall from some long-forgotten dream.

See Rebecca’s work as part of our annual summer open call exhibition, Melting Point. While days grow long and shorts shorten, Six Foot Gallery is delighted to host twenty nine artists exploring art as an alchemical process; the heat of summer as an artistic catalyst, plus our Sextet listening station is back with twenty-one new pieces for you to spend some quality time with.

Hi Rebecca! Which artists inspire you? Are there non-artistic influences such as literature or music that impact your work?
I would say that a recent huge influence on my work has been Mark Fisher’s The Weird and The Eerie which was fantastic at defining the difference between what classified as weird and what as eerie, using media as examples and analysing their impact.

How has your practice changed over time?
During my undergraduate years, I focussed heavily on absurdity and comedy. I primarily used performance as a means of researching further into transforming ordinary objects and moments into something slightly more unsettling in a light-hearted tone. After being out of art school for a few years and beginning my masters, I’ve come to explore Sisyphean tasks and uncanniness more within my practice.

What do you do to keep motivated and interested in your work?
I go for a walk! As I’m inspired by the everyday, going for a walk and taking a good look at the small details that we overlook daily is a great way to reset the mind and find inspiration. New and unexpected things happen every day and hopefully, I’m able to draw on the abrupt and embrace the unknown.

Will your next project be a continuation of your current style or are you experimenting with something different? Can you share a glimpse of your next project?
My next project is building up towards the MLitt Degree Show as the culmination of my time spent on the MLitt Contemporary Art Practice course. I’ve been replicating more objects and using similar materials and combinations of the 3D and 2D.

Are there any upcoming events or additional information you would like the audience to know?
Make sure to keep an eye out for the Glasgow School of Art Masters/MLitt Degree Show towards the end of August! You’ll likely see pieces like my work in Melting Point (you’ll have full bragging rights to your pals that you saw this artwork before it was cool).

Find out more about Rebecca’s work on Instagram or on her website. Melting Point runs at Six Foot Gallery until Thursday 9th July.