Rebecca Ackroyd
Rebecca Ackroyd's work toys with the discipline of sculpture, as processes are dissected to their bare bones in a diverse language of making that questions relationships between drawing, abstraction and figuration. Larger than life sculptures of legs, crudely made from chicken wire and plaster bandage, confront the viewer with their stark rawness. With crotches at head height they exude an air of confidence, emulating catwalk stances. The overtly feminine collides with an abstract architecture as a way of bouncing the viewer between places. It hints an interaction or performative encounter whilst exploring a confusion of narratives that encourages clashes to occur between the works.
A solo exhibition of Ackroyd's work, Mirror Stage, will take place as a collateral event of the 60th Biennale Arte, Venice, in 2024.
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Rebecca Ackroyd (over)Thinker, 2023
About
Rebecca Ackroyd (b. 1987 in Cheltenham, UK) lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Education
She graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Byam Shaw School of Art, London, in 2010 and a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 2015.
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions include Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2023); Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon (2023); Peres Projects, Seoul (2022); Peres Projects, Berlin (2021); Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger (2020); and Zabludowicz Collection, London (2017).
Ackroyd's work has been included in group exhibitions at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry (2023); CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (2023); Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (2022); Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (2021); 15th Lyon Biennale, Lyon (2019); BRAUNSFELDER, Cologne (2018); and Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015).
Press
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Rebecca Ackroyd Period Drama
Kestner Gesellschaft
November 4, 2023 – February 18, 2024
Rebecca Ackroyd 100mph
Peres Projects
January 22 – March 5, 2021
Rebecca Ackroyd
La Biennale de Lyon
September 18, 2019 – January 5, 2020
Rebecca Ackroyd
Invites at Zabludowicz Collection
September 28 – November 5, 2017
