About/CV
Born in the UK in 1989, Rebecca Howard is an artist, academic and lecturer, currently based in Sheffield and Derby. Her creative practice engages with photography, installation, model-making, and sculpture to investigate the ways in which photographs, as both images and material objects, shape our experiences of place/space.
Her doctoral research Manifold (Manchester School of Art, 2016-2022, AHRC funded) explores photography in an expanding field, drawing from theories of 'the fold' (Deleuze, 1988) and baroque aesthetics to interrogate the spatial and dimensional properties of the photographic paper-print and its capacity to generate form, reconfigure interior space, and draw critical attention to seemingly unremarkable architectural features.
Rebecca is also part of two artist groups: Proximity Collective and Hospitality.
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5317-0001
Education
PhD by practice, Manchester School of Art, UK, 2016-2022 (AHRC funded, 2016-2022)
MA Photography, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK (Distinction), 2011-2013
BA Graphic Arts and Design, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK (First Class), 2008-2011
Selected Group Exhibitions & Installations
There-Then-Here-Now, Bankley Gallery, Manchester (upcoming, 2022)
'All the Small Things', Artcore, Derby, UK, 2021
Proximity at Abingdon Street Market, Blackpool, UK, 2021
Proximity at Paradise Works, Salford, UK, 2019
On the Image', Manchester School of Art, UK, 2019
'Nothing Abandoned', Paradise Works, Salford, UK, 2017
'Visualising the Home', (Carlisle Photo Festival), Vallum Gallery, Carlisle, UK, 2017
'What Now!?' Manchester School of Art, UK, 2013
'The World According to Mass', Bench Gallery, Manchester, UK, 2012
Selected Solo Exhibitions & Installations
'Mirror-like Marble', Derby Cathedral, Derby, 2022
'Unit 28-30', Stretford Mall, Manchester, UK, 2021
'When we build, let us think that we build forever' Holden Gallery foyer, Manchester, UK, 2019
'Meta', Holden Gallery (film projection room), Manchester, UK, 2019
'Repeat Pattern', Manchester School of Art UK, 2016
Residencies
Proximity at Rogue Studios, Manchester, UK, 2022
PAHC (Post-graduate Arts and Humanities Centre) Researcher in Residence Instagram Takeover, 2021
Paradise Works, Salford, UK, 2019
British School at Rome, Italy, 2019
Islington Mill, Salford, UK, 2019
Venture Arts, Manchester, UK, 2019
Awards/Funding
University of Derby's Early Career Researchers Development Fund, 2022
NWCDTP Student Initiative Fund, 2021
AHRC doctoral research funding 2018-2021
Plaque Prize, Manchester School of Art, 2019
NWCDTP Collaborative Skills Development Scheme, 2019
Workshops
Dream Gallery (Model Making) with Proximity Collective, 2020
Artists Talks
Exploring relations between photography, architecture and performance (with Dr. Victoria Sharples and Valeria Carnevale), University of Derby, 2022
Post-PhD with Proximity Collective (as part of the NWCDTP PhD Careers Week) online, 2021
Nothing Abandoned, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 2017
Visiting Lectures
Village Green photography lecture series, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2021
Model Making, MA Media, Manchester School of Art, UK, 2021
BA Fine Art, Blackpool School of Arts (Blackpool and The Fylde College) UK, 2021
Photo/Sculpture/Installation with MA Photography students, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 2019
Conferences
Arts in Society History/Histories: From the Limits of Representation to the Boundaries of Narrative (July 2022)
iJade 2021 Hybrid Spaces:Re-imagining pedagogy, practice and research, online, 2021
The Image: Techno-storytelling: Past, Present, Future, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 2019
Digital Humanities, Human Technologies (NWCDTP), Salford University, UK, 2018
Journal Articles
Thinking and Making Through Folds, Comparative Media Arts Journal, 2021
https://www.sfu.ca/cmajournal/issues/issue-nine--relations/Rebecca-Howard.html
Roles
Derby Scholar, University of Derby, 2022-present day
Early Career Academic (Creative Industries), University of Derby, UK, 2021-2022
Freelance Photographer (Food, product, architecture, weddings, theatre, and portraits) 2010-present day
Gallery Interpreter, The Lowry, Salford, UK, 2016-2020
Gallery Assistant, The Lowry, Salford, UK, 2008-2016