Rebecca Fortnum

Rebecca Fortnum is an artist, writer and academic. She has been Professor of Fine Art at Middlesex University, the Royal College of Art, The Glasgow School of Art and at the University of the Arts London, where she is currently Acting Dean of C School at Central Saint Martins. She has had numerous solo shows, including Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, Freud Museum London and the V&A Museum of Childhood and published monographs, Contra Diction, Third Person, Solipsist, and Self Contained. In 2019, she was elected Visiting Research Fellow in Creative Arts at Merton College, Oxford, where she developed her painting project, A Mind Weighted with Unpublished Matter published as a book by Slimvolume in 2020. In 2021–22, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute, culminating in ‘Les Praticiennes’, a solo exhibition at the HMI that explored the lives and work of women sculptors of the Parisian Belle Époque. She is author of In their own words; Contemporary British Women Artists (Bloomsbury, 2007), and editor of On Not Knowing: How Artists think (co-edited with Elizabeth Fisher, Black Dog 2013) which included her essay ‘Creative Accounting’, and with Magnus Quaife, co-convened the conference ‘On Not Knowing: How Artists Teach’ at Glasgow School of Art. A Companion to Contemporary Drawing (co-edited with Kelly Chorpening, Wiley Blackwell 2020), which included her essay, ‘A Dirty Double Mirror, Drawing, Autobiography and Feminism’ and her paper, ‘Baggage Reclaim: Some thoughts on Feminism and Painting’ was published in the Journal of Contemporary Painting in 2017.

• Of Collaboration and Contention
• Experimental Feminisms: Correspondence, Fabulation, Reenactment

List of Collaborators