Rebecca Rendell
Originally from South Wales in the UK, Rebecca studied Fine Arts at Swansea Institute in 2003 before moving to study a Bachelors Degree in Textile Art at Winchester School of Art, a campus of Southampton University in England, UK.
Rebecca mostly works with mixed media, found objects, usually multiples, like hundreds of real crab-claws, or the black spines of sea-urchins which are washed ashore. Rebecca likes to bring a new lease of life to objects, often her materials are found on coastlines, or road sides and the outcomes are geometric, controlled, and ordered.
After graduating, Rebecca took work experience with UK based artists Sue Lawty and Susie Macmurray before finding a permanent position as the studio assistant for British artist Damien Hirst. She worked in the studios for over a year and showed her work with colleagues in the exhibition, 'ARK'.
Rebecca moved to the UAE in 2008 where she started working at Tashkeel as the studio and gallery assistant. She also participated in a number of Dubai exhibitions, each artwork focusing on elements of, nature, preservation and observations of what surrounds us organically.
In December 2009 Rebecca was awarded the Sheikha Manal Young Artist Prize. This lead to a major exhibition, 'The Reflective Mirror' held in New York, which included work from 23 female artists based in the UAE.
Rebecca now works as a freelance artist full time, she uses the unique facilities of the studios at Tashkeel, and has had work in recent exhibitions such as 'Art Dubai', 'MinD' at Ductac, 'Portrait of a Generation' at Tashkeel, and 'Tracking the Emirates', a first of its kind exhibition, in Ras Al Khaimah, where Rebecca is located.
