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Rebecca Kay
Halliwell Sutton
b.1991 Bolton

Education

2018-2022 Royal Academy Schools, Post graduate course 

2017-2018 School of The Damned

2016 Feminism and Contemporary Art Short Course,Middlesex University

2013-2016 BA Fine Art (1st Class Hons) Manchester Metropolitan University 


Group Exhibitions

2023

Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Brook Bennington, Buckinghamshire  

Resting, Blyth Gallery,  Imperial College, London 

Alone Time, Union Pacific, London

Babele curated by Caspar Giorgio Williams, Spazio Musa, Turin

Upcoming: 

Night Cafe, London - September

Recent Activity, Birmingham


2022

Ancient Vessels, A.P.T Gallery, London  

Photocopier II, Recent Activity, Birmingham 

RA Schools Degree Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London

One by One, Fiumano Clase, London 

2020

Premiums: Interim 2nd year show, Royal Academy of Arts, London

2019

Everything Must Go! Assembly Point, London

Sensitive Matter, Bridget Riley Studios, London

LANDGRAB, The Shop, Sadie Coles HQ, London

State of The Arts, Selfridges, Manchester

2018

i.o.u.a.e. x Shelf, Spanish City, Whitley Bay 

Vision & Signs: School of The Damned Grad Show, Sluice Gallery, London

2017

Les Boites, Suede Gallery x Slugtown, Edinburgh 

Cut Cloth, Portico Library, Manchester

In Dark Times…, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

Slowing into Form, Vane, Newcastle

2016 

Paint by Number, Studio 24, Leeds

Fools and Follies, Tatton Park, Knutsford

Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize, BALTIC39, Newcastle

Fine Art Degree Show, Manchester School of Art, Manchester

Heaven is a Place Where Nothing Ever Happens, Grosvenor Gallery, Manchester

Illegible Rage, Wonder Inn,Manchester

Oh! Tell… - Room554, Britannia Hotel, Manchester

Solo Exhibitions 

2023

Upcoming Recent Activity, Birmingham, 6th October 

2018

Floating on the surface of knowledge, duo show with Mollie Milton, 
Islington Mill, Salford

Earth works, L22 Press, Crosby Library, Waterloo

2017 

Field Studies of Touch, Gallery North, Newcastle

Relics of what could be, what could have been, Slugtown, Newcastle 

Texts from the universe, STCFTHOTS, Leeds

Group Residencies

2017

Merz Barn residency, Cumbria, School of The Damned

Common Room, Guest projects London, School of The Damned

2015

Joya: arte + ecología, Andalucía, Spain


Curating

2017/18

Beacon Programme; Pharos, Flare & Signs, Caustic Coastal, Salford

With ; Maria GondekRebecca AckroydJesse DarlingMary HurrellTai ShaniJenkin Van ZylLiv FontaineAmshu Chukki, Verity BirtAnna HughesNicola SinghDominique White and Ayesha Tan Jones.

2017

Something Coquettish, Juliet Fleming solo, House of Bah Blah, Middlesbrough

Shared Space, with Holly Hendry, Kayt Hughes, Ramona Zoladek, Baltic39, Newcastle

2015

SoftMatter, Wonder Inn, Manchester


Prizes, Awards, Grants

2022
Gilbert Bayes Scholarship Award
Almacantar Prize, Art Source, RA
Patricia Turner Sculpture Prize, RA
Dissertation Distinction Award, RA


2017
Grants for the arts, Arts Council England

2016
Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture 1st Prize: Fellowship with Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art & Northumbria University
Leonard Little Prize, Manchester School of Art
New Creative Talents Shortlist by 5plus Architects, Manchester


Press & Publications

2022

RA Magazine Summer 2022

2017

Corridor8 Interview with Helena Kate Whittingham 

#206: The week’s top exhibitions, Slugtown Solo Show, a-n

In Dark Times Review, Corridor8

Cut Cloth: Contemporary Textiles and Feminism, Publication.


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