Animal Feeding project, A contemporary Bestiary

From 2022-2024 Rebecca was Public Engagement Artist on the Animal Feeding Project, run by Exeter University and funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Artworks in the Natural History Museum Collection

In 2024 the Natural History Museum acquired 17 of Rebecca’s artworks, in addition to a number of drawings and prints which they had already acquired in 2004 and 2014.

Artwork in the Queen's house, National Maritime Museum

Artworks in the British Museum Permanent Collection

In 2006 the British Museum purchased an etching by Rebecca entitled ‘The Return.’ In 2010 Rebecca donated four drawings, relating to her Art Residency on the Melanesia Project (2005-2010). In 2020 the Museum selected forty artworks relating to the Oceania collection and spanning over twenty years (1999-2019) of Rebecca’s career as an artist working with, and inspired by, the British Museum collection. You can see images of the work here.

Drawings and Paintings

Nature studies, as well as watercolour paintings and drawings, charcoal drawings and sketches of museum specimens and artefacts.

Nature Prints and Drawings

From 2021-2023 Rebecca was Artist in Residence at Cambridge Conservation Initiative and she developed a series of work around seaweed biodiversity. She also made a number of drawings and nature prints - printing directly from pressed seaweed and ferns.

Artworks in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Permanent Collection

In 2024 The Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology acquired 30 of Rebecca’s artworks which relate to items in the Museum Collection. In 2014 the Museum commissioned and acquired the collage Bird man of Salonika,

Feather Collages

Hand-printed feathers using the paper-litho method, collaged onto archival mountboard. The paper image is inked-up and the feather placed on top and run through the etching press. Each feather is individually printed, flattened and dried and then they are arranged into designs and stuck down using archival adhesive. All of the feathers are sourced from either Rebecca’s own doves (she collects the moulted feathers) or she uses white goose, turkey and duck feathers acquired from suppliers to the millinery trade

Others

Sculptures, installations, vintage-framed printed feathers, feather brooches, quill pens and pots, feather tiaras, artist’s books, wallpaper, silk scarves, exotic feather and nature specimen collection. The ‘vintage’ frames are mid-century photo frames from Denmark, with antique convex glass.

Prints

Etchings and Monoprints. Etchings are made using copper or zinc plates - the drawing is etched with acid and tones are created using aquatint and chine collé (application of coloured tissue). The plate is inked-up and editioned using an etching press. Monoprints are one-off prints made by drawing straight onto the plate with ink, or placing inked-up feathers onto a plate, and this is run through the press and printed onto paper. Only one of each image is produced.