Rebecca Meanley
Rebecca Meanley received an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 2003, having previously studied at Nottingham Trent University and Glasgow School of Art. Meanley lives and works in London and exhibits internationally; she is also Senior Lecturer in Fine Art part-time at the University of Bedfordshire. Her primary practice as a painter incorporates drawing and writing and uses photography as a continual archival process.
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Blue Flowoil on canvas107cm x 102cm (42" x 40")
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Blue Raptureoil on canvas190cm x 150cm (75" x 59")
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Burstoil on canvas199cm x 148cm (78" x 58")
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Driftoil on canvas199cm x 148cm (78" x 58")
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Fluxoil on canvas199cm x 148cm (78" x 58")
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Glimmeroil on canvas200cm x 150cm (78.7" x 59")
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Immersedoil on canvas199cm x 148cm (78" x 58")
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Moment in blueoil on canvas104cm x 94cm (41" x 37")
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Surgeoil on canvas200cm x 150cm (78.7" x 59")
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Untitledpigment, wax and oil on canvas56cm x 168cm (22" x 66")
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Untitled (Delft Blue)oil on canvas127cm x 229cm (50" x 90")
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Untitled (green)oil on canvas145cm x 145cm (57" x 57")
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Untitled (peach-grey-turq-lime)oil on canvas145cm x 145cm (57" x 57")
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Untitled (phalo-irgazine-magenta)oil on canvas145cm x 145cm (57" x 57")
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Untitled (pink irganzine)oil on canvas145cm x 145cm (57" x 57")
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Untitled (place peach)oil on canvas145cm x 145cm (57" x 57")
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Untitled (quinacridone, violet, turqoise)watercolour, pigment and oil on canvas171cm x 129cm (67.3" x 50.8")
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Untitled (red-turquoise)oil on canvas145cm x 145cm (57" x 57")
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Untitled (semi dark ground turquoise)oil on canvas145cm x 145cm (57" x 57")
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Untitled (turquoise-pink)oil on canvas145cm x 145cm (57" x 57")
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Untitled (white)oil on canvas145cm x 145cm (57" x 57")
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Untitled Ioil on canvas90cm x 90cm (35.5" x 35.5")
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Untitled IIoil on canvas90cm x 90cm (35.5" x 35.5")
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Untitled IIIoil on canvas90cm x 90cm (35.5" x 35.5")
Education and Experience
Postgraduate Certificate: Teaching in HE, University of the Arts, London (2008-2009)
MA in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design (2002-2003)
BA (Honours) Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University (1996-1999)
1st Year Fine Art: Painting,Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (1995-1996)
Solo Exhibitions
2017 The Inexplicable Moments of Painting, Cadogan Contemporary, London
2016 When Paint Takes Over at ArtWorks Project Space, Blackhorse Lane, London
2012 Dissembling, The Atrium, Barbican Arts Group Trust, Hertford Road. London
2011 Drawn In, The Hat Factory, Luton, Bedfordshire
2002 Recent Paintings, InsideSpace Gallery, Great Titchfield Street, London
Group Exhibtions, EVENTS AND RESIDENCIES
2019 The Fight: Figuration versus Abstraction curated by Cedric Christie and Pascal Roussen, Kunstgenerator, Geneva, Switzerland
2019 Miniscule curated by Vanya Balogh, Cross Lane Projects, Kendal, Cumbria, UK
2018/19 Rendition (four person painting show)curated by KB Stowe, The Concept Space, London
2018 Honourable Mention for ItsLIquid International Contest 5th Edition 2017, Venice, Italy
2018 Nominated for Global Art Awards 2018, PAINTING category, Dubai
2018 Hardest Hue to Hold curated by Aindrea Emelife, Elsley House, London
2018 Shortlisted for Ashurst Emerging Art Prize 2018 by Conrad Carvalho and Aindrea Emelife
2018 Spring 2018, group show Cadogan Contemporary, London
2018 ArtistResidency at Brisons Veor, Cape Cornwall, West Cornwall
2017 Paint Lounge fundraiser at Sluice Biennial, Hackney, LondoN
2017 31 Celsius group show selected by Paul Carey-Kent at ASC Gallery, London
2017 Antennae curated group show at Lubomirov Angus-Hughes, London
2017 Final shortlist for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2016 Winter Salon at Angus-Hughes Gallery curated by Iavor Lubomirov, London
2016 Open Studios, exhibition and Silent Auction, Barbican Arts Group Trust
2016 Summer 2016, Cadogan Contemporary, 87 Old Brompton Road. London
2016 Rem-Brand Name project, Lola Nikolaou Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
2016 Sixty , Lubomirov Angus-Hughes, London, touring to Art Athina Athens
2016 Small Is Beautiful, Flowers New York, Chelsea NY, USA
2015 Winter Salon, Angus-Hughes Gallery curated by Lubomirov and A-H, London
2015 Open Studios, exhibition and silent auction, Barbican Arts Group Trust
2015 The Matchbox Project,, The Other Art Fair, London
2015 Arte Mexico, British Art Auction at Morton Casa de Subastas, Mexico City
2015 Summer Salon 2015 at Angus-Hughes Gallery curated by Lubomirov and A-H
2015 A5, Platform Projects@ Art Atina 2015, Athens, with Lubomirov-Easton
2015 Material Tension, curated by Day and Gluckman at Collyer Bristow Gallery
2015 Sunday in the Park with Ed, curated by Cedric Christie and Pascal Rousson at Display Gallery, London EC1A
2015 This Year's Model, Studio 1.1, Redchurch Street, London , E2
2015 Small Is Beautiful, Flowers New York, Chelsea NY, USA
2014 Christmas Parlour at A.P.T, 6 Creekside Deptford, London SE8
2014 BAG, co-curated this show at The Atrium Space, 32A Hertford Rd, London N1
2014 From Here& There: Drawings from Swansea to Colorado, Elysium Gallery, Swansea , Wales
2014 TIAF London 2014: The Independent Artist Fair 2014, The Rag Factory
2014 From Here& There: Drawings from Swansea to Colorado, Clara Hatton Gallery, Colorado
2014 Small Is Beautiful, Flowers New York, Chelsea New York, USA
2014 Artist Residency/Exhibition in Slovakia in Hontianske Trstany, Slovakia
2014 Summer Salon touring to The Aldeburgh Beach South Lookout, Aldeburgh
2014 Summer Salon Show, Lion and Lamb gallery, London
2014 Future Flesh, curated by Jack Spencer Ashworth, Waterloo, London
2014 Art Converters at Studio 1.1, Redchurch Street, London
2014 Chinese Open, Q-Park China Town, London, curated by Balogh and Christie
2014 This Year's Model at Studio 1.1, Redchurch Street , London
2014 Vitis Vinifera, Alexsic and Mortimer, London, curated by Alexsic, Roussen and Christie
2013 First Come First Served, Lion and Lamb, 46 Fanshaw Street London, N1
2013 Small Is Beautiful, Flowers Kingsland Road, London E2
2013 Sluice Art Fair, with Lion and Lamb (works on paper), Bermondsey London
2013 Big Deal no.5, Q-Park Cavendish Square, London cur. by Balogh & Christie
2013 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. RA London
2013 Braziers Open, selected by Studio 1.1, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire
2013 Soul Meat curated by Lee Maelzer, Lion and Lamb, 46 Fanshaw St, London
2013 This Year's Model, Studio 1.1, 57a Redchurch Street, London
2012-2013 First Come First Served, Lion and Lamb, 46 Fanshaw Street, London
Awards
2011 Associate Fellow membership of the Higher Education Academy
2001-2002 Arts and Humanities Research Board: postgraduate bursary
Bibliography/Publications
Hardest Hue to Hold, 2018 exhibition catalogue with essay by Aindrea Emelife (my work on front, back and inside covers, 6 images and bio inside (published by Oaktree & Tiger, sponsored by HKS Architects)
Spring 2018, Cadogan Contemporary catalogue ( 6 pages of images and text by Rebecca Meanley)
Rebecca Meanley: The Inexplicable Moments of Painting, exhibition catalogue with twenty full colour images of my work and my text, for solo exhibition at Cadogan Contemporary, London, 2017
Arte Mexico, British Art Auction at Morton Casa de Subastas, Mexico City, catalogue October 2015
From Here& There: Drawings from Swansea to Coloradoexhibitioncatalogue, Elysium Gallery, 2014
What is an Art Book? Modern Language Experiment publication 2013 (includes series of four drawings)
Marmite Painting Prize catalogue 2008 – two drawing published