Supple Octopus - Rebecca Elves and Coral Brookes at The Tub

Rebecca Elves is a multidisciplinary artist based in Kent. Recent exhibitions include solo show The House Was Like Her at Daphne Oram Gallery, Canterbury, What I See I’ll Never Tell at Wilder Gallery, London (2021), The Studio at 4 a.m. at Hastings Contemporary (2020), and two-person show Plus One with Catherine Anyango Grünewald at Limbo Arts, Margate (2019). In 2016 she graduated from the Royal College of Art, where she received the Gordon Peter Pickard Award to make drawings in Montréal. 

Rebecca draws stories lurking in the spaces between clay forms, pencil marks, and painted gestures. She is equally influenced by moments glimpsed from the literary worlds she likes to burrow inside, and the chalky Kentish coastline. Rebecca is currently a fully funded practice-based PhD student at Canterbury Christ Church University, where she was awarded a 2021 British Council Venice Research Fellowship.

Selected Exhibitions
The House Was Like Her, Daphne Oram Gallery, Canterbury, 2022 (solo); What I See I Will Never Tell, Wilder Gallery, London, 2021 (with Joana Galego & James Owens); Ghosts That Live Amongst Us, 155a Gallery, London, 2020; The Studio at 4 a.m., Hastings Contemporary, 2020 (curated by Anne Ryan); Lines of Thought, Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea, 2019; Plus One, Limbo Arts, Margate, 2019 (with Catherine Anyango Grünewald, Arts Council England supported); Stuff on Walls, Things on Floors, Pie Factory, Margate, 2019; Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 2018; What is DRAWing?, Triforium, Temple Church, London, 2018; Nothing from Nothing, LIMBO Arts, Margate, 2018; SHOW 16, Royal College of Art, London, 2016; Different Strokes, Hockney Gallery, London, 2016; Over the Line, Poetry Café, London, 2015; Offprint London, Tate Modern, London, 2015; Not For Rental, 71a Gallery, London, 2013; Rare, Rochelle School, London, 2012; The Edge of Print, Stour Space, London, 2012; Pictoplasma: Post-Digital Monsters, La Gaité Lyrique, Paris, 2011; Shop!, KK Outlet, London, 2011

Awards, Grants, Residencies & Fellowships British Council Venice Research Fellowship, 2021; Faculty PhD Scholarship, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2019-2023; Threads Micro-Residency, Ideas Test, Kent, 2018; Finalist, Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, 2018, Nothing from Nothing Residency, Limbo Arts, Margate, 2018; Gordon Peter Pickard Travel Bursary, Royal College of Art, 2015; Fees bursary, Royal College of Art, 2014-2016; Narrative Prize, Kingston School of Art, 2012 

Education: PhD Canterbury Christ Church University, 2022; MA Royal College of Art, 2016; BA Kingston School of Art, 2012

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