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ABOUT :
Rebecca Harper's paintings are underpinned by intense drawing, demonstrating a mode of reconstructing visual appearances; events, beliefs, dreams, memory and mediated imagery, whereby seamless, sometimes fictional fragmentations are rearranged and presented as plausible happenings. The diasporic condition presents itself in her paintings as an unfolding allegoric commentary on its life-source. The works are a contemplation of transience, a theatre in which human instinct compassionately addresses ideas of settlement, (the fixed image) a reaction to one’s transient restlessness and displacement and a complex dispersion of un-at-homeness and groundlessness. Her often large scale works allow for ‘paintings' potential to play voyeur, allowing distance enough to play the narrator without a need for the images to be fixed, settled or stable. The motives of her works are intended to be contradictory, at once both particular and general, restrained and ornate, whole and fragmented, detectable and imperceptible, relatable and distant, reflecting the complex duality of the human condition...
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Rebecca Harper was born in London in 1989 where she still currently lives and works. She studied at UWE Bristol 2008-2011, The Royal Drawing School 2012-2014 and Turps Art School 2016-2018, since 2014 having taught through the Royal Drawing School at various institutions; The Saatchi Gallery, The V&A Museum of Childhood, Cass Arts, Drawing School Central/Selfridges, The Southbank centre, The National Gallery; She was awarded The Michael Moritz residency Tuscany and The Modi Institute of Fine Art, India 2014. Harper is represented in both public and private collections and has exhibited in numerous group shows including Christies London and New York and most recently been included in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018. She has also exhibited at ‘Artist of the Day’ at Flowers Gallery 2018, Supersimetrica Art Fair, The PieFactory/Turner Contemporary - Turner show in Margate and The Turps Gallery London. She is currently Artist in Residence for the Ryder Project at A.P.T in Deptford 2018-1 and recently won the ACS (Artists Collecting Society) Studio Prize 2018. Rebecca Harper is represented by Anima Mundi.
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Mabon’ is the first in an ongoing series of international mixed online exhibitions following this rhythm of the seasons, known as ‘the wheel of the year’. This ‘calendar’ provides a cue for the duration of each show, and inevitably flavours the selection of works presented…
Anima Mundi Charity Print Donations to Funding Neuro in Memory of Little Daisy Brooks and Ethan Cass
The donation has been made in the loving and lasting memory of Daisy Brooks from Bures, Essex and Ethan Cass from Pendeen in Cornwall who tragically lost their lives to DIPG…
Anima Mundi’s major online international mixed exhibition featuring the work of 40 international artists, is now available to view on our website alongside the online catalogue, images, texts and video…
Anima Mundi are pleased and proud to announce that Rebecca Harper’s ‘Between Two Worlds’ has been selected for the 2021 John Moores Painting Prize Exhibition currently taking place at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Anima Mundi are delighted to launch ‘Beyond Ourselves’ a major mixed online exhibition featuring 39 international artists.
We are delighted that Rebecca Harper has been selected for inclusion in the John Moores Painting Prize 2020 Exhibition at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Rebecca Harper is included in the exhibition ‘Goose Summer’, an outdoor show presented across Instagram from 28th Sept - 3rd Oct 2020. The exhibition is an inspired and thoughtful response to our present circumstances…
'Ode to a Nightingale' is now open online. It was curated in response to the extraordinary crisis moment of lockdown that we find ourselves in and is our most international exhibition to date.
Anima Mundi is delighted to present a selection of paintings by Rebecca Harper, on show at The Sands Hotel, Margate, held in conjunction with the 2019 Turner Prize
The 251st annual Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has opened its doors once again. This edition includes works from Tim Shaw, Sarah Ball, Rebecca Harper, Andrew Hardwick and Peter Randall-Page.
Rebecca Harper’s solo exhibition ‘Chameleon’ continues to be met with wide scale acclaim…
Rebecca Harper features in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries which returns to the South London Gallery for the first time since 1999
Works by Anima-Mundi artists Samuel Bassett, Rebecca Harper, Henry Hussey and Arthur Lanyon will be exhibited at The Saatchi Gallery as part of the exhibition event ‘Paper Cuts’
Anima Mundi are delighted to announce our representation of the contemporary figurative painter Rebecca Harper. Harper’s first solo exhibition will launch our 2019 exhibition schedule