Dr Rebecca Bell

Qualifications:

MA Hons, MPHil, PhD, PGCert, FHEA

Position:

Senior Lecturer - Visual Culture

Department:

Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education (ACE)

Telephone:

+441179656261

Email:

Rebecca4.Bell@uwe.ac.uk

About me

Dr Rebecca Bell is Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture across Art & Design. Rebecca holds a PhD in Czech craft and design under Socialism from the Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal College of Art (RCA). For over a decade, she worked in contemporary art commissioning in the public realm, with Andy Goldsworthy, DACS, and Art on the Underground. She has taught at a range of institutions, including Middlesex University, UMPRUM Prague, The School of Life, and the RCA. For 5 years Rebecca also led the Curating Contemporary Art and Design Summer School at the Royal College of Art.

Rebecca is currently carrying out research into post-pastoral materialities, embodiment, and the more-than-human. Her practices include writing, drawing, and teaching as methods of exploring eco-empathy, feminism and creative response. Recent examples include an artist residency with the Museum of Loss and Renewal in Orkney, Glimpsing Land exhibition with General Office Gallery Stourbridge, and leading the 'Making in a Time of Unmaking' Critical Collaboration strand with UWE MA students to explore related themes in an expanded classroom. She is also currently curating a slow collective project with 19 makers working across a range of disciplines entitled Embodied Daily Practice, which will result in an artist book produced in collaboration with the Centre for Print Research.

She is interim Co-Lead and ongoing Steering Group member of the Visual and Material Practices Research Group (VAMP), which is a group of cross-disciplinary art and design practitioners, historians and theorists interested in visuality and material culture. As part of this group, she is part of the editorial team for the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice and currently editing a special issue on Craft Methodologies.

Rebecca has published on art, craft and design for a variety of publications including the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, West 86th Journal, The Journal of Modern Craft, Artforum Magazine, Home Cultures Journal, the Central and Eastern European London Review, and has co-edited publications such as The Roundel: 100 Artists Remake a London Icon (2013). 

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