Rebecca Chesney

Rebecca Chesney


Book available now!
Rebecca Chesney Searching the Shadows Book 01
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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Rebecca Chesney Turnpike exhibition
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 Chesney
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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Rebecca Chesney Bronte Wild exhibition
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 exhibition

Found Cities, Lost Objects
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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Rebecca Chesney Sound 01
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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Rebecca Chesney Leicester talk
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

Rebecca Chesney Astley Hall publication 02
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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Rebecca Chesney Future Landscapes 06
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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Rebecca Chesney laser woodcut 01
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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Rebecca Chesney Dante 01
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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Rebecca Chesney Vienna 01
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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Rebecca Chesney YSP Bees 02
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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Rebecca Chesney Newlyn book
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

Available to buy at Newlyn Art Gallery shop, or online here

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Rebecca Chesney Astley Hall 01
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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Rebecca Chesney Pontymoile
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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Rebecca Chesney Super Slow Way
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 Rebecca Chesney
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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Keiko Yamamoto Chesney 01
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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Rebecca Chesney View From Here 01
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.
WOW Virtual Festival Pakistan

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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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Rebecca Chesney Practising Place book 01
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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Rebecca Chesney Snapshot 01
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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Rebecca Chesney CCQ Magazine
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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Rebecca Chesney Ecovention 01
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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Rebecca Chesney Uniformannual 01
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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Rebecca Chesney Compton Verney Book 01
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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Rebecca Chesney Weatherlands Book
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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Rebecca Chesney Uniformagazine 01
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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Rebecca Chesney Uniformagazine 02
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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Rebecca Chesney Meadows 02
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 book 01
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