Rebecca Chesney
Book available now!
Rebecca Chesney
Searching the Shadows
Publisher: In Certain Places
ISBN: 9780993049842
200 pages
Designed by Gannet Verlag, München
Price £22 + p&p
Searching the Shadows documents my installations, exhibitions, objects, drawings and maps from 2000 to 2019. The book includes my work with Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Brontë Parsonage Museum, The Lowry, Nirox Sculpture Park, Peak, Triangle Network, Bluecoat Gallery, Newlyn Art Gallery, Montalvo, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Springhornhof, In Certain Places, Bolton Museum, Museo Casa Rurale di Carcente and Grizedale Arts.
This beautiful publication with 245 colour photographs and illustrations features written contributions from Richard Mabey, Rosemary Shirley, Elaine Speight, Colm Bowe, Gail Bell, Owen Mountford and a foreword by Clarissa Corfe.
Contact me directly if you'd like to buy a copy of the book
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CONA Foundation - Diorama for an Exhibition
Serendipity Arts Festival
Goa, India
15 - 22 December 2024
Some of my prints are included in this exhibition with CONA as part of Multiplay curated by Thukral and Tagra.
Serendipity Festival website
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A Minute to Midnight
Gallery Oldham
7 December 2024 - 1 March 2025
I have work included in this new group exhibition: it’s another chance to see my imagined future handbook of British Birds “Red, Amber, Green”
Using a 1950s copy of The Popular Handbook of British Birds by P.A.D Hollom, I blanked out every bird species on the Red and Amber UK Conservation Status List (as of 2020) to highlight how many species we will loose if we continue in the direction we are going.
See my work alongside Antony Hall, Mishka Henner, Adele Jordan and Rae Story.
Admission is free
Tuesday to Saturday, 10am – 5pm
Gallery Oldham
35 Greaves Street
Oldham, England OL1 1AL
More information: Gallery Oldham
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Women in Print Talk
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
London SE18 6HD
Thursday 21 November 14.30 - 15.30
I'm in a panel discussion alongside Tracy Hill, Lizzie Glendinning, Heather Peak, Lubaina Himid, Magda Stawarska and Heather Mullender-Ross.
More information and book your ticket to the fair and talk here
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I've been invited to be the Art and Horticulture Artist in Residence at Hospitalfield in July and September 2024.
I will be looking at the ecology and history of Hospitalfield while considering how to enrich the nature of the site into the future.
Hospitalfield website
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Harewood Biennial 2024: Create / Elevate
Harewood House
LS17 9LG
28 June - 20 October 2024
Curated by Ligaya Salazar and Darren Pih, the third Harewood Biennial Create / Elevate celebrates the power of craft to surprise, inspire and bring people together to imagine new worlds. Presented within Harewood House and across its landscapes and gardens, it brings together the work of 16 British and international artists, designers and craft collectives including four major new commissions.
My work Conditions at Present is included in the show and is located on the South Front lawn. The work is a co-commission between Harewood House and the British Textile Biennial.
Exhibiting artists, makers and collectives: Arabeschi di Latte, BEIT Collective with Hamza Mekdad, Botanique Studios, Britto Arts Trust, Rebecca Chesney, Emefa Cole, Common Threads, Jakup Ferri, Rosa Harradine, Jan Hendzel, Mani Kambo, Hew Locke, Kusheda Mensah, Temitayo Ogunbiyi, Lucia Pizzani and Xanthe Somers.
Admission charges apply. More information: Harewood House
Guided walk / talks:
I am leading guided walks to my installation at Harewood House on Sunday 1st September 2024.
Walks will take place at 11am, 12pm, 2pm, 3pm and will take around 45 minutes.
The walks are free (included in the admission charge), however booking is advised.
More details and book your ticket here (click on the Make it Harewood link)
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Our Earth
Salisbury Cathedral
Wiltshire SP1 2EF
20 April - 6 October 2024
I have been commissioned to make new work for this group show. Hear the Unheard is a new sound work of my field recordings of birds from four different continents resonating along the arched walkways in the cloisters of the cathedral.
Hear calls, cries and songs from Africa, North America, Asia and Europe as you take a stroll or sit and contemplate.
There is free access to the cloisters during opening hours.
Another work of mine Red, Amber, Green has been installed over two walls in the main part of the cathedral. Here I present the entire 120 illustrated pages from a 1950s copy of the The Popular Handbook of British Birds by P. A. D. Hollom. Species on the red and amber UK Conservation Status List (as of 2020) have been blanked out creating an imagined future handbook.
Admission charges apply to visit the cathedral.
The exhibition, curated by Beth Hughes, focuses on the impact of climate change asking us to consider how our day to day lives may be impacted and how that will be felt differently across the world. Artists: Derek Jarman, Elias Sime, Hilary Jack, Dryden Goodwin and Rebecca Chesney.
For more details, admission charges and opening hours please visit Salisbury Cathedral website
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New Publication!
A Fine Toothed Comb
Published by HOME, Manchester
Edited by Beth Hughes, with contributions from Lubaina Himid, Lauren Elkin and Clarissa Corfe.
This beautiful publication was produced to celebrate the exhibition A Fine Toothed Comb held at HOME in Manchester featuring Lubaina Himid, Magda Stawarska, Rebecca Chesney and Tracy Hill.
ISBN 978-1-9993720-4-0
Available to buy from HOME in Manchester, or Leeds City Art Gallery.
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Found Cities, Lost Objects
Leeds Art Gallery
The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA
26 January - 21 April 2024
I have a number of works included in this exhibition, curated by Lubaina Himid CBE. Found Cities, Lost Objects invites us, through the works of women and gender non-conforming artists, to consider the experiences of women in the city.
Artists featured include: Dani Abulhawa, Manuela Amey, Phyllida Barlow, Chloë Brown, Sophie Calle, Hackney Flashers, Helen Cammock, Helen Chadwick, Rebecca Chesney, Jesse Darling, Milena Dragicevic, Michelle Duxbury, Feed, Anthea Hamilton, Mona Hatoum, Young In Hong, Leeds Animation Workshop, Yve Lomax, Markéta Luskačová, Melanie Manchot, Caroline Mardon, Sam Metz, Lisa Milroy, Jade de Montserrat, Maggie Murray, Krissi Musiol, Matrix Feminist Architecture, Cornelia Parker, Pavilion, Phyllis Pearsall, Susan Philipsz, susan pui san lok, Tai Shani, Lynn Silverman, Nicola Singh, Hannah Starkey, Magda Stawarska, George Storm Fletcher, Rhea Storr, Anne Tallentire and Elizabeth Wright.
Tuesday - Saturday: 10am - 5pm, Sunday: 11 am - 3pm. FREE
Leeds Art Gallery
(Photo of my Natura in Minima Maxima weed map of Preston in display case: Louis Thornton)
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Three of my posters from the Pine an' Fret exhibition have been made into billboards and are on show in different locations in Stalybridge from 27 November - 31 December 2023
Images © Richard Tymon
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Storm Warning
Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange
18 November 2023 - 13 April 2024
I have a number of works included in this exhibition alongside Angela YT Chan, Joey Holder, Andre Kong, Harun Morrison, Ellie Robinson-Carter, Something & Son, Heloise Tunstall-Behrens, and David Watkins. Storm Warning is a collaboration between Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange and Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, which seeks to raise awareness of the impact of the climate crisis on coastal communities in Mount’s Bay, and South Essex.
Newlyn Art Gallery, New Road
Newlyn, Cornwall TR18 5PZ
The Exchange, Princes Street
Penzance, Cornwall TR18 2NL
OPEN TUE - SAT 10.00 - 16.00
Admission charges apply
www.newlynartgallery.co.uk
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Landscapes of Progress?
Hestercombe Gallery
11 November 2023 - 3 March 2024
I have new work in this group show alongside Madinah Farhannah Thompson, Simon Hitchens, Marie-Louise Jones, Hugo Lami and Mirte van Duppen.
'Five of the artists know Hestercombe, its buildings, collections and gardens, well. Four have previously been resident artists, absorbing themselves in the day-to-day routines of flora, fauna and human co-existence during the past three years, with the fifth returning to work made on-site eight years ago. The sixth artist presents an alternative hi-tech view of land usage from across the sea in The Netherlands.'
Hestercombe Gallery is open daily 11am - 4pm
Entry is by gardens admission only
Hestercombe, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Taunton, Somerset TA2 8LG
More information:
www.hestercombe.com
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A Fine Toothed Comb
HOME
Manchester
7 October 2023 - 7 January 2024
I have new work included in this group show alongside Tracy Hill, Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska. Curated by Lubaina Himid with Clarissa Corfe.
More information and opening times:
www.homemcr.org
Events:
Online panel discussion with Rebecca Chesney, Lucia Pietroiusti (Head of Ecologies at Serpentine Gallery) and Zakiya Mckenzie (writer, broadcaster)
6pm Wednesday 22 November 2023
Free
Panel discussion with Rebecca Chesney, Lubaina Himid, Tracy Hill, Magda Stawarska and Clarissa Corfe
Event Space, HOME, Manchester M15 4FN
2pm Sunday 3 December 2023
£5
Book tickets for both events: www.homemcr.org
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Storm Warning
Focal Point Gallery
Southend-on-Sea
4 October 2023 - 6 January 2024
I have work included in this group exhibition alongside Angela YT Chan, Wyrd Flora, Joey Holder, Harun Morrison, Something & Son, and David Watkins.
Storm Warning is a collaborative project between Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea and Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Penzance, which seeks to raise awareness of the impact of the climate crisis on coastal communities in South Essex and Cornwall.
More information and opening times:
www.fpg.org.uk
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My work Conditions at Present, commissioned for the British Textile Biennial, is included in issue 114 of Selvedge Magazine (September / October 2023). Available here
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Pine an' Fret
Astley Cheetham Gallery
Stalybridge
30 September - 23 December 2023
I've made a series of 7 riso posters for Stalybridge: three of the posters quote lines from the poems of Samuel Laycock, a Lancashire dialect poet who wrote about the lives and working conditions of local mill workers in 1860’s.
And four quotes were gathered this year via writing workshops in Stalybridge to reflect current concerns about health, wages and the cost of living crisis.
The posters are now on show at the Astley Cheetham Gallery along with paintings, drawings and artefacts selected from Tameside Borough Council’s archive and collection to highlight the history of the town in connection to the first general strike in UK (started in Stalybridge in 1842), Chartism, riots, protest and trade unions.
Pine an’ Fret is curated by We Are Local on behalf of The Bridge
Astley Cheetham Gallery
Trinity Street, Stalybridge SK15 2BN
Opening hours: Monday 9am - 1pm, Tuesday 9am - 1pm, Wednesday 1pm - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 3pm
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Brontë Festival of Women's Writing 2023
The Weather and the Brontës
In conversation with Rebecca Chesney
24 September 2023
2.15pm - 3.15pm
West Lane Baptist Church, Haworth
I will be in conversation with Sassy Holmes from the Brontë Parsonage Museum talking about the influence the weather had on the Brontës' lives and work.
A hybrid event (in person and on-line).
For more information and to book tickets:
www.bronte.org.uk
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British Textile Biennial
29 September - 29 October 2023
I have been commissioned to make new work for the British Textile Biennial 2023!
Using discarded festival tent fabric I am making a field of windsocks to be installed on the front lawn of Towneley Hall in Lancashire. More information here: https://britishtextilebiennial.co.uk
Call for volunteers: Working in collaboration with FWRD Together (Festival Waste Reclamation and Distribution) i’ll be collecting tents as well as other discarded items after this year’s Beatherder Festival here in Lancashire and I'm looking for people to help on 17th and 18th July 2023.
Please come and help collect both tents for my installation as well as usable kit which can then be redistributed to good causes such as local homeless support groups and refugee support groups including : tents, sleeping bags, roll mats, tarpaulins, blankets and other usable aid.
For more information and to add your name to the list of volunteers please visit BTB23
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Found Cities, Lost Objects : Women in the City
Royal West of England Academy
Queen’s Road
Bristol BS8 1PX
20 May – 13 August 2023
Admission charges apply
I have a number of works included in this exhibition, curated by Lubaina Himid CBE.
See my Water Lines (London) and Water Lines (Bristol) embroidered maps; 7 of my Future Landscape collages; my Weed Map of Preston; and research materials from my Particulate Matters project looking at air pollution in Preston, Glasgow and London.
Found Cities, Lost Objects invites us, through the works of female contemporary artists, to consider the experiences of women in the city.
With works from the Arts Council Collection, and including a number of works by Bristol based artists, this collaborative exhibition encourages us to bring our own experiences of the urban environment.
Artists include Cornelia Parker, susan pui san lok, Anne Tallentire, Helen Cammock, Lisa Milroy, Magda Stawarska-Beavan and Elizabeth Wright.
(Image of Water Lines (London) above by Louis Thornton)
Royal West of England Academy
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Climate. Emergency. Hope
Turnpike Gallery
Leigh
WN7 1EB
1 April 2023 - 17 June 2023
Tuesday to Saturday, 10am - 4pm
FREE
The Turnpike Gallery is presenting an exciting new exhibition exploring some of the urgent issues around the climate emergency. It includes a range of artwork by local, national and international artists, curated by a team of young people. Artists include: Rebecca Chesney, Robyn Woolston, Gregory Herbert, David Maisel, Klaus Thymann, Nerissa Cargill Thompson, Amy Twigger Holroyd, Chitra Merchant, Helen Bendon, Richard Shilling, Maya Chowdhry, Sophy King, Jane Lawson, Brigitte Jurack, Carolyn Morton.
One of my Water Lines maps and 3 of my Future Landscape collages have been included in the exhibition.
Turnpike Gallery
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Wee-weep
Rebecca Chesney
TONSPUR_display, Museum Quarter Wien
Museumplatz 1, 1070 Wien
27 November 2022 - 25 February 2023
I have new work currently on show in Vienna. The work was made during my month-long residency at Q21 and is a hand embroidery on cotton fabric 160 x 200 cm
(image above shows a section of the digital pattern for the embroidery)
Q21
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The Brontës and the Wild
Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, BD22 8DR
1 February 2023 - 1 January 2024
One of my colour wheels from my Brontë Weather Project in 2011/12 is included in this new exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. The Brontës and the Wild, considers how landscape, weather and the natural world play an important role in the lives and work of the Brontës.
And to complement the exhibition I am again collecting weather observations from visitors to the museum in a specially made hand bound book throughout 2023.
If you're visiting the Museum this year make sure you add your weather observation in the book.
Wednesday - Sunday, 10am - 5pm and all Bank Holiday Mondays.
Admission charges apply
Brontë Parsonage Museum
The Brontë Weather Project
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Found Cities, Lost Objects : Women in the City
Southampton City Art Gallery
Southampton
SO14 7LP
3 Feb – 6 May 2023
FREE
I have a number of works included in this exhibition, curated by Lubaina Himid.
See my Water Lines (London) embroidered map; 7 of my Future Landscape collages; my Weed Map of Preston; and research materials from my Particulate Matters project looking at air pollution in Preston, Glasgow and London.
Found Cities, Lost Objects invites us, through the works of female contemporary artists, to consider the experiences of women in the city.
With works from the Arts Council Collection and Southampton City Art Gallery’s collection, this collaborative exhibition encourages us to bring our own experiences of the urban environment.
Artists include Cornelia Parker, susan pui san lok, Anne Tallentire, Helen Cammock, Lisa Milroy, Magda Stawarska-Beavan and Elizabeth Wright.
Monday – Friday 10am – 3pm; Saturday 10am – 5pm.
Closed Sundays.
Southampton City Art Gallery
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One of my sounds works The Storm (Chapter 2) has been broadcast on Lithuanian National Radio.
Broadcast during "Radijo menas" authored and edited by Arturas Bumšteinas you can hear my work 37 minutes into the programme:
Radijo menas
Arturas invited me to create a sound work especially for the show and I’m thrilled to be included.
The Storm (Chapter 2) duration 14 minutes.
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Patterns of Change in the Anthropocene
Institute for Environmental Futures
University of Leicester
Tuesday 17 January 2023
2.00 pm - 3.00 pm
FREE
I am doing a talk about my work alongside Professor Mark Williams, Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester.
This is an in-person event and also available to attend online.
To attend please register here:
https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/environmental-futures
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Artist in residence Q21 Vienna
For November 2022 I am one of the artist in residence at Q21 in the Museum Quarter in Vienna, Austria.
I have been invited for a month by sound art organisation TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien.
I am giving a talk at the University of Applied Arts Vienna on Thursday 17th November 2 - 3.30pm at Rosenbursenstraße 3, 1.Stock, 1010 Wien - all welcome!
Event: Open Studios during Vienna Art Week Saturday 19th November 1 - 3pm Museum Quarter Vienna. For more information and to book your place on the tour visit the Q21 website
Q21
TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien
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Hidden from Light
Rebecca Chesney
Astley Hall
21 May - 20 November 2022
Presented in a number of rooms within this historic property, I have created a new body of work made in response to my residency at the Hall over the last three years.
Inspired by its architecture and contents, people and stories Hidden from Light reveals how the history of Astley Hall is still relevant today with its links to subjects ranging from gender and class, health and illness, to science and superstition.
A small publication celebrating the project, including a new text written by Dr Rosemary Shirley, will be available soon.
Astley Hall, Chorley PR7 1XA
www.astleypark.co.uk
Read more about Hidden from Light here
A beautiful publication has been made to accompany my exhibition Hidden from Light at Astley Hall.
It includes a foreword by David Tetlow, Arts and Heritage Manager of Astley Hall, and a wonderful essay by Rosemary Shirley, Associate Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.
56 pages, full colour, published by Astley Hall Museum and Art Gallery it is now available to buy in their shop.
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Future Landscapes
28 May – 21 October 2022
School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester
19 University Road
Leicester LE1 7RF
This exhibition places some of my work in dialogue with a selection of pieces from the Arts Council Collection. The works from the Arts Council Collection represent a wide range of approaches to landscape and the environment in art from the 1950s to today.
"Together, the works in this exhibition generate new conversations about how we romanticise, manage, define, and live in landscapes. Ultimately, it asks the important question: What is the future for our landscapes?"
Featuring the work of: Roger Ackling, John Blakemore, Boyd and Evans, Patrick Caulfield, Bob Chaplin, Rebecca Chesney, Joshua Compston, Guy Heatherington, Mariele Neudecker Eduardo Paolozzi, Victor Passmore, Ray Smith, Susan Tragmar.
Future Landscapes is organised by Art Museum and Gallery Studies (AMAGS) MA students. It is part of the AMAGS MA Programme in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.
Opening Hours
Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday, 10.00am to 3.00pm
Booking encouraged, please email museum@leicester.ac.uk
FREE
www.le.ac.uk
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Connected - Connectedness
Gallery ONKAF
New Delhi, India
17 September - 30 September 2022
Brandon Ballengee, Ivan Buenader, Rebecca Chesney, Maximo Gonzales
For more information, directions and gallery hours: www.onkaf.com
My work is included in this group exhibition: 66 Million (image above) Laser woodcut hand printed with etching ink on newsprint paper 240cm x 182cm (2022)
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Reimagining Landscape
A Future Places Centre Conference at Lancaster University 7th – 8th July 2022
I have been invited to be one of the keynote speakers at this conference.
The Reimagining Landscape conference is called to help us reconfigure our relationships with the natural world. At this time of unprecedented change, our keynote speakers and panel discussions will open dialogue towards new ways in which literature and the arts can disseminate environmental issues and foster engagement amongst the wider community.
Speakers and panellists include ecologists, land managers, farmers, writers, artists, photographers and musicians. The conference is a step towards establishing a new centre for environmental communication at Lancaster.
Keynote speakers: Fred Pearce, environmental journalist and author of A Trillion Trees (Granta, 2021) and The New Wild (Icon Books, 2015) and Rebecca Chesney, visual artist.
To see the full conference schedule and book a ticket go to lancaster.ac.uk
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Junction Box 16
Dante 700th Anniversary Special
I have been invited to make new works to be included in the Dante 700th Anniversary Special of Junction Box
I've made a series of 5 new collages To the Uncommitted
(Each paper collage is on Hahnemuhle bamboo paper 32 x 24cm)
Contributing artists and writers include : Pierre Joris, Fran Lock, Eléna Rivera, David Annwn, Allen Fisher, Ellen Dillon, Ian Brinton, Lee Duggan, Doug Jones, Scott Thurston,
Angela Gardner, Tom Jenks, Beth Greenhalgh, Philip Terry, Peter Hughes and David Rees, Steph Goodger, Simon Collings, Rebecca Chesney, montenegrofisher, David Rees Davies, Penny Hallas, Chris McCabe, Susan Adams, Robert Hampson, Tessa Waite, Robert Sheppard, Peter Larkin, Nerys Williams, Graham Hartill, Stephen Emmerson, Frances Woodley, Steven Hitchins, Anthony Mellors, Lyndon Davies.
Junction Box
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TONSPUR 89
Rebecca Chesney/Lubaina Himid
The Storm - 8-channel sound installation and series of 7 posters
TONSPUR für einen öffentlichen raum 2021
20 September —11 November 2021
TONSPUR_passage Micro Museum for Sound
MQ Wien Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
Daily 10:00—20:00
Tonspur
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Visiting Artist at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Our Future Sorrows
April - September 2021
During the summer I revisited my Diligent Observation residency and exhibition held at YSP ten years ago and surveyed the 500 acre Bretton Estate to identify and map the bee species on site.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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Invisible Narratives book now available to buy
Rebecca Chesney, Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska-Beavan
ISBN 978-0-9546745-3-3
Foreword by James Green, Director of Newlyn Art Gallery
Curator's Introduction by Lubaina Himid
Texts by Ella S Mills and Christine Eyene
64 pages (plus 4 fold out pages), full colour
Published in June 2021, the book celebrates our exhibition Invisible Narratives held at Newlyn Art Gallery in 2019
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Hidden From Light
Residency and exhibition at Astley Hall 2019 - 2022
I have been commissioned to make new work for Astley Hall near Chorley, Lancashire.
Supported by Arts Council England the project started in August 2019.
Exhibition dates 21 May - 20 November 2022
Astley Hall
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Commission for Hinterlands: Torfaen/Wales
Canal & River Trust with Peak 2018 - 2021
I have been commissioned to make new work for the Pontymoile Basin on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.
I have created a small meadow at Pontymoile Basin (image above) to enhance the biodiversity and support insect populations at the Basin.
And in April 2021 500 metres of plants (Purple Loosestrife, Yellow Flag Iris and Meadow Sweet) were introduced in long blocks along the water's edge. This will create a visual impact with ribbons of colour, and extend habitat for bees and other insects.
Read more details about the project here
Peak Cymru
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Super Slow Way Artist in Residence from 2020
I have been appointed artist-in-residence by Super Slow Way for the proposed Pennine Lancashire Linear Park between Nelson and Blackburn on the Leeds - Liverpool Canal. My residency forms part of the Linear Park feasibility study in partnership with Canal & River Trust, Lancashire County Council, Creative Lancashire and Arts Council England.
Super Slow Way
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Frieze Critic's Guides - Andrew Durbin
June 2021
My work is featured in the Frieze online critic's guide What to See in East London During Gallery Weekend held in June 2021
Read the article here:
Frieze
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Invisible Narratives²
Rebecca Chesney, Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska-Beavan
Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix Gallery
19 Goulston Street
London E1 7TP
22 May - 19 June 2021
Please visit the gallery website for more details
Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix Gallery
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View From Here available to watch online
I gathered the voices of women talking about their experiences of the coronavirus pandemic. All recorded in April 2020, these brief soundbites in different languages reveal personal thoughts, observations and concerns. Love, loss and sadness, isolation and loneliness are all mentioned, alongside expressions of thankfulness and hope. Listen to their voices as you look through my window onto a fading evening sky.
View From Here was commissioned by the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts in El Paso, USA in collaboration with Proyecto Changarrito and Azul Arena and included in the exhibition El Balcon.
View From Here is currently included in Art Gene's Digital U-Hang online exhibition
Art Gene
View From Here was included in WOW Virtual Festival Pakistan on International Women's Day 2021. Supported by the British Council.
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Art Monthly September 2020
My work is included in Lizzie Lloyd's Art and Place feature in the September 2020 issue of Art Monthly
For a list of stockists or to buy a copy online visit the Art Monthly website.
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Arts and Place Now Series of online talks.
Rebecca Chesney in conversation with Helen Pheby, Head of Curatorial Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Recorded on 2nd June 2020, our talk is now online to watch on youtube.
We talked about my residency at YSP in 2010, the resulting work situated in Everton Park in Liverpool and my return to YSP as visiting artist in 2021.
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Practising Place
Creative and Critical Reflections on Place
ISBN 9781906832353
Edited by Elaine Speight
With a foreword by Lubaina Himid
Dry As A Badger and Other Rural Mythologies, a visual essay co-authored by art historian Dr Rosemary Shirley and myself, is included in this beautiful new book.
Published by Art Editions North and distributed by Cornerhouse Publications.
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Writer and broadcaster Richard Mabey has written a text about my Snapshot colour chart to be included in my upcoming book Searching the Shadows, published by
In Certain Places.
He is the author of over 30 books including Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination (2015); Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants (2010); Beechcombings: The Narrative of Trees (2007); Flora Britannica (1996) and The Unofficial Countryside (1973).
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Snapshot, Colours of the Brecon Beacons is available for sale again!
Buy your copy from Peak Cymru
Don't miss out - the first edition sold out quickly.
Commissioned by Peak Snapshot was produced as a result of my residency in the Brecon Beacons National Park in winter 2015 / 16. The colour chart represents the complex relationships between ecology, geology, industry, history, culture, tourism and economics of the place.
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CCQ Magazine
Landscape, Portrait Emma Geliot
Editor Emma Geliot has written a piece about my Snapshot colour chart for issue 10 of CCQ Magazine, and the whole issue is named after one of my colours!
And what an excellent choice : The Colour of Dog's Breath
CCQ Magazine
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Four of my screen prints have been purchased for the Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library permanent collection.
All four prints are from my ongoing Dandelion Project.
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My work is featured in Ecovention Europe, Art to Transform Ecologies, 1957 - 2017
Published by Museum Hedendaagse Kunst De Domijnen to accompany an exhibition of the same name and written by curator Sue Spaid, it also includes projects by Hans Haake, Hans de Vries, Debra Solomon, Olafur Eliasson and Mark Dion.
ISBN 978-90-75883-56-5
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Near/Far
Work I made while on a residency at Montalvo in California is included in the new Uniformannual Twentyeighteen published by Uniformbooks
124pp, 238 x 168mm, hardback ISBN 978 1 910010 17 4
Available from Uniformbooks
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My work features in the new book Creating the Countryside, The Rural Idyll Past and Present.
Edited by Verity Elson and Dr Rosemary Shirley, Paul Holberton Publishing
ISBN 978 1 911300 10 6
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One of my cyanotypes of Hemlock has been included in the Boats, Coats and Votes Newspaper.
Printed by Birley Editions at the Birley Studios. Funded by Preston City council as part of Vote 100 Celebrations 2018.
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One of my colour-wheels from the Bronte Weather Project has been included in Weatherland, Writers and Artists Under English Skies by Dr Alexandra Harris
Published by Thames and Hudson.
ISBN 978-0-500-51811-3
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On Being Out of Place: The Artwork of Rebecca Chesney written by Dr Rosemary Shirley, Senior Lecturer in Art History at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, is now online at The Double Negative.
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Death by Denim has been included in issue No.4 of Uniformagazine
Available now
32pp pamphlet
ISSN 2056-6301
Available from Uniformbooks
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Language of Birds has been included in issue No.1 of Uniformagazine
Available now
32pp pamphlet
ISSN 2056-6301
Available from Uniformbooks
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Martin Wainwright - The Guardian
Martin Wainwright has written about my meadow installation on Everton Park for the Guardian: Everton blazes with wildflower meadows in time for the Liverpool Biennial
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Victory Gardens for Bees book
My meadow installation in Everton Park is included in Victory Gardens for Bees, A DIY Guide for Saving the Bees by Lori Weidenhammer. Published in Canada this beautiful book is full of images and information about planting in gardens for bees.
ISBN 978-1-77162-053-6