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 at 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.

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Rebecca is also part of two artist groups: Proximity Collective and Hospitality. 

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Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5317-0001

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Education

 

• PhD by practice, Manchester School of Art, UK, 2016-2022 (AHRC funded, 2018-2021) 

• 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 

 

• 'Ready-to-Assemble', Gloam gallery, Sheffield, UK (upcoming)

• '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

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Selected Solo Exhibitions & Installations 

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• '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

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• 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

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Awards/Funding 

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• 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

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Workshops

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Dream Gallery (Model Making) with Proximity Collective, 2020

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Artists Talks 

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• Post-PhD with Proximity Collective (as part of the NWCDTP PhD Careers Week) online, 2021

• Nothing Abandoned, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 2017

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Visiting Lectures

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• 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

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Conferences

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• 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

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Journal Articles

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Thinking and Making Through Folds, Comparative Media Arts Journal, 2021

https://www.sfu.ca/cmajournal/issues/issue-nine--relations/Rebecca-Howard.html

 

Roles

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• 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

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