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Rebecca Swainston

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Rebecca Swainston Head for One of the Deranged (with rabbit)
Rebecca Swainston Head and Head of a Bird
Rebecca Swainston Small Girl for One of the Deranged
Rebecca Swainston Bird Inside, Bird Outside
Rebecca Swainston Inside the Large Dress
Rebecca Swainston Pantomime
Rebecca Swainston Long Armed Woman
Rebecca Swainston Tipping Away the Fear
Rebecca Swainston Woman, Blue Child and Spirit Dog
Rebecca Swainston Mother and Child
Rebecca Swainston Reaching over White Dog
Rebecca Swainston Agnes's Jacket
Rebecca Swainston Drawing for Agnes's Jacket
Rebecca Swainston Submission to the Dress
Rebecca Swainston Another Self
Rebecca Swainston What Might Have Been
Rebecca Swainston Strong Woman Returning Gaze
Rebecca Swainston Ginger Twins
Rebecca Swainston Forbidden Place
Rebecca Swainston Keeping Quiet
Rebecca Swainston Sisters Balancing
Rebecca Swainston Woman and Dolls
Rebecca Swainston Centre Parting
Rebecca Swainston Alizarin Head
Rebecca Swainston Blue Rapunzel
Rebecca Swainston  Girl in Green Dress with Horse coming towards Her
Rebecca Swainston Shrine
Rebecca Swainston Kiss from a Bird
Rebecca Swainston Woman Split
Rebecca Swainston To Be A Bird
Rebecca Swainston Woman in Paper Dress
Rebecca Swainston Girl in Striped Stocking
Rebecca Swainston Woman, Child and Maribou Stork
Rebecca Swainston Smoking
Rebecca Swainston Dog on Shoulders
Rebecca Swainston  Fire Fly
Rebecca Swainston  Horned Woman and Pink Dog ll
Rebecca Swainston  Woman Stepping into Wooden Dress

Rebecca Swainston

'Forbidden Places'  

A dreamlike universe of secrets,  misbehaviour and ambiguous narrative

The Culmination of Two Years Work of Paintings and Drawings  

12th June – 31st July 2010

Modern Artists Gallery is delighted to welcome back Rebecca Swainston to the gallery with an exhibition of over thirty new works this summer. This will be the artists' fifth show at the prestigious Berkshire gallery and will include an eclectic range of paintings, watercolours and drawings.  

The universal appeal and recurrent success of Rebecca Swainston's work is in her ability to express how objects, clothes and spaces hold memories and reverberations of people and events. Much of this is expressed through the animals in her paintings which symbolise the personality traits of the people and strike up connections and meanings of their own. With the echoes of things not quite seen or imagined she is also able to explore mental boundaries and the places where we retreat inside ourselves. The lively, and often comical images hint at relationships, secrets and misbehaviour.   Swainston artfully blurs the line between reality and imagination which leads to a dreamlike universe within which the viewer can escape. The themes spring from domestic and personal life but the visual vocabulary draws on a wider cultural and universal experience. The result is a series of compelling images with layers of narrative and an ambiguity which will encourage visitors to return to her work time and time again.  

The artist's commitment and skill is evident in every stage of her work: the careful preparation of smooth gesso surfaces, her mastery of drawing and exuberant use of colour. The images are intricate and beautiful with a seductive jewel-like quality. She works extensively in sketchbooks which have become fascinating visual working documents, some of which will be available to view at Modern Artists Gallery.  

Education

1987 – 8            MA Fine Art Chelsea School of Art

1984 – 7            BA First Class Hons. Fine Art Printmaking, Winchester School of Art

1983 – 4            Foundation in A&D, Brighton Polytechnic    

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