Rebecca+Fortnum

Here is some biographical information about Rebecca Fortnum, subject leader in Fine Art

**Rebecca Fortnum** is currently Reader in Fine Art at University of the Arts London (Camberwell College), and has recently completed 5 years as a Research Fellow at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts at Lancaster University. Her research falls into four related areas; fine artists’ processes and their documentation; contemporary women artists and feminist theory; a visual art practice; fine art pedagogy. Rebecca read English (Oxford) before gaining an MFA (Newcastle) and taking up a fellowship at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, USA. She has been an Associate Lecturer at Bath Spa University, Central St Martins and Chelsea School of Art, a Visiting Fellow in Painting at Plymouth University and at Winchester School of Art, a visiting artist at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Senior Lecturer at Norwich School of Art and Wimbledon School of Art.

She has received several awards including from the[| Pollock-Krasner Foundation], the British Council, the Arts Council of England, [|the British School in Rome] and the [|Arts and Humanities Research Council]. She has exhibited widely including solo shows at the Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, [|The Drawing Gallery], London and [|Gallery 33, Berlin].

She was instrumental in founding the artist-run spaces Cubitt Gallery and Gasworks Gallery in London. Her book of interviews,[|Contemporary British Women Artists, in their own words], is published by I B Tauris in 2007. Last year she was a recipient of the Art House’s [|Space for 10] award for mid-career artists and lead international artist for the [|TRADE project] in Roscommon & Leitrim, Ireland. Her research project [|Visual Intelligences] at Lancaster dealt with issues surrounding the creative process and how it might be documented. She is currently participating in the cultural leadership programme for artists, [|METHOD.]