Rebecca Keyser
Changing Room
6 January to 6 February 2025

Open Studio Days: Wednesdays

Workshops on Fridays.

11am to 1pm - open to public Wednesdays & Fridays

2pm to 4pm workshops (book to reserve a place) Fridays

During this residency Rebecca will be using projectors, cameras and lighting to explore interactive image-making. She will experiment with shadows, colour and layered imagery to temporarily alter the space; and also use the silhouette as a way of generating images for paintings or drawings.

It is an opportunity for connection and expansion, both within her own art practice and as a way of sharing ideas and experiences with others.

Rebecca aims to use light as a means of immersive image generation. She will explore the possibilities of projectors and cameras as both image makers and drawing tools.

Rebecca’s work as a painter is primarily figurative, and recently she has been experimenting with paper-cut silhouettes for layering and painting into.  She would like to explore this using the shadow as a stencil, playing with scale, proportion and colour to make unexpected changes.

Rebecca intends to experiment more with the interplay between solid and transparent form ... a kind of thinning of the veil between seeing and sensing. She is also interested in the way that multiple images can be metaphors for strands of memory.

Visitors/participants will be able to try out some of the methods she'll be using in order to make their own work.  She looks forward to sharing my discoveries with others, and is interested to see how that collaboration expands these ideas.

Rebecca will be researching artists who use the figure, light and colour as tools for altering visual perception; and who also offer images as an alternative to everyday life; places for the viewer to dream in (Francesca Woodman)

I think of the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality - Olafur Eliasson

Rebecca is a multi-disciplinary artist, but primarily a painter.  She obtained a BA Hons in Visual Art in 2010 (Falmouth School of Art; Sherkin/DIT). She has worked as an Artist Facilitator in Ireland in a wide range of settings, since 1996 and for the Mental Health Service since 2001.  Rebecca has created art groups in the community across West Cork in conjunction with CMHCR/HSE over the last fifteen years.  This includes one at creative hub, No. 49 North St, Skibbereen.

This residency follows on from one at Uillinn in 2016 to research and consolidate Rebecca’s participatory/studio practice.  She has also undertaken two residencies at CoAction to collaborate and create artworks with service users.

Collaborations with other artists and writers have been made over the years as part of other award-based projects and initiatives funded by Uillinn, HSE and Cork County Arts Council.

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WCAC acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council and Cork County Council in making these residencies possible.