Rebecca Stevenson's sculptures appear to be in a state of transition, at once in bloom and in decay. Wilfully decorative, a feast for the eye, their ravishing colour and exquisite detail lure the gaze. But on closer inspection the work reveals itself as having a darker aspect: the spectacle becomes unsettling, or frankly absurd.

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Stevenson's practice draws upon a broad range of art historical sources, from Renaissance & Baroque sculpture to Vanitas painting; from grotesque ornament design to Rococo porcelain; from anatomical imagery to the objects created for Early Modern wunderkammers. Via her unique and complex visual language  - a dance between material, process, form and 'informe' - her objects interrogate the contemporary meaning and experience of being flesh.​

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Rebecca Stevenson graduated from Chelsea College of Art & Design in 1998 and the Royal College of Art in 2000.

 

In 2022 - 2023 she was was Artist-in-Residence at the V&A, London.

 

Her solo shows include 'In Transformation' at the V&A, London; 'Delicate Pleasures' at Fasanenschloessen Moritzburg, Dresden; 'Bacchanale' at Collect 2020/James Freeman Gallery,  London; ‘Fantasia’ at Van der Grinten, Cologne; ‘Tempting Nature’ at Mogadishni, Copenhagen; ‘Exquisite Corpse’ at DomoBaal, London.

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Recent group exhibitions include: Symptom: Barock' at Schloss Eutin, Germany, with Margret Eicher, Simone Demandt and Myriam Thyes;  "Modern Baroque" at James Freeman Gallery, London with Daniel Hosego; "Centuries in the Making' at Bonhams, London and Compton Verney, Warwickshire with Grinling Gibbons, Alexander McQueen, Phoebe Cummings, Lucille Lewin and others; 'Artists' Conquest' at Schloss Pillnitz/Museum of Applied Arts, Dresden with Margret EIcher, Luzia SImons and Myriam Thyes; 'So Beautiful It Hurts' at James Freeman Gallery, London, with Carolein Smit and Andrew McIntosh;  'B.A.R.O.C.K' at Schloss Caputh, Potsdam and ME Collectors Room, Berlin, curated by Mark Gisbourne and Margret Eicher, with artists Margret Eicher, Luzia Simons and Myriam Thyes

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Stevenson’s works are held in the Maramotti Collection, the Kraft Collection and the collection of the State Palaces and Gardens of Saxony as well as in numerous private collections internationally.

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Rebecca Stevenson lives and works in London

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