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 University of the Arts London, where she is currently Central St Martin’s Associate Dean of Research. She has had numerous solo shows including the Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, the Freud Museum London and the V&A’s 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Fellow in Creative Arts at Merton College, Oxford, where she developed her painting project, A Mind Weighted with Unpublished Matter published as a book by Slimvolume in 2020.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 the 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 the women sculptors of the Paris 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’.
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