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About 

Rebecca Gilpin is a London born artist currently working in central London.  She specialises in abstract painting on a large scale, taking inspiration from different periods between ancient art and popular culture - cave etchings to record covers.  She graduated with a first in Fine Art from the University of Oxford Brookes in 2018, followed by an MA in 2019.   

She has two different ways of painting that she switches between, primed oil paintings and then soak stain paintings on unprimed canvas.   Her repetitive technique of staining unprimed canvas with acrylic and water was first witnessed in India as a child.  When she is painting with oils, she creates thick built up, textured process paintings which are assertive and bold.  Her striking colour palette embodies the wonders of the natural world.  

Each painting tells a story, whether it be autobiographical or something she has read or seen.  She believes that everything is connected on her journey to understanding the world.  She plays with the idea of chance by being as free as possible and in a state of flow when she paints.  

She has worked with different producers and musicians for two past series of work creating and blending dissimilar genres, mirroring how she merges or references different ideas and concepts from the history of painting.  To date, her paintings have mostly been named after song titles or lyrics.   

Rebecca has hosted 7 solo shows in London   and been part of 12 group shows in the UK.  Her work has been bought by Oxford Brookes University’s Art Fund and presently hangs in the Vice President’s office.  Another of her pieces was selected by the Chelsea and Westminster hospital’s official charity, and now hangs in the HIV ward.  Another large scale piece hangs in St Mungo's women’s hostel in North London.  Her work has been sold to collectors in the UK, USA, Mexico and throughout Europe. 

Education 

University of Oxford Brookes BA, MA 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

2022: Group Show,’Inner Worlds,’ Fitzrovia Gallery, London. 

2022: Solo Window Display: ‘Fairytale in the Supermarket,’ New Bond St, London. 

2022: Group Show: ‘In Awe of You,’ Liliya Art Gallery, Putney High St, London. 

2021: Solo Show: ‘96 Tears extension,’ 199 Portobello Road, Notting Hill, London. 

2021: Group Show: ‘Into the Cosmere,’ 188 Shoreditch High Street, London. 

2021: Solo Show, ‘96 Tears’, Piccadilly Exchange, London. 

2021: Solo Show, Next Door Records, Shepherds Bush, London. 

2021: Solo Show, Poland st, Soho, London. 

2020: Solo Show, Midnight Special, Poland st, Soho, London. 

2020: Group Show, The Koppel Project Exchange, Piccadilly, London. 

2020: Solo Show, Magic Carpet Ride, Poland st, Soho, London. 

2020: Solo Show, Magic Carpet Ride, Koppel Project Hive, Holborn, London. 

2019: Wellbeing event, Koppel Project Central, Soho, London. 

2019: Speak Productions, Launch event, Elephant West, London. 

2019: This is Oxford Festival, Set design, Oxford. 

2018: This is Oxford Festival, Set design, Oxford. 

2019: Group Show, Poland st, Soho, London. 

2019: Solo Show, Strange Brew, Soho, Poland St, London. 

2019: Group Show, Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford. 

2019: Group Show, Free Range, Brick Lane, London. 

2018: Solo Exhibition, Jam Factory, Oxford. 

2017: Group Exhibition, Glass Tank, Oxford. 

2016: Group Exhibition, Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford. 

2015: Group Exhibition, OVADA, Oxford. 

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