The disruption of the ordinary and the encouragement of absurdity is where Rebecca lays, tucked in with the blanket of light hearted humour on her bed of work. Through performance, sculpture, text work and printmaking, Rebecca Rae thrives on audience interaction with the push of absurdity within life. Recycling routines, creating something with no purpose other than to just be, she draws inspiration from the everyday and uses this familiarity to create an uncanniness within her practice in a way that is often puzzling and comedic. 

 

With her HNC qualification in Art from West Lothian College (2019) and her BA (Hons) in Contemporary Art Practice from Gray’s School of Art (2022), Rebecca has been awarded the James Rust Prize (2022) and the Scottish Sculpture Workshop Fiona Bushe Award (2022) for her degree show work. 

 

Recently, Rebecca has been interested in Albert Camus’ writings in “The Myth of Sisyphus”, focusing on the story of Sisyphus rolling his boulder up a hill for all of eternity, watching it fall back to the bottom each time. Making light of the repetitive punishment, she approaches the old tale with one question – “What if I was Sisyphus?”.