Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery

Rebecca’s work is based on careful observational drawing as a way of seeing, recording investigation and analyzing. During her time at the Royal College of Art she worked mainly in watercolour, drawing bird skins at the Natural History Museum and ethnographic artefacts made from feathers at the British Museum.  Her interest in feather artefacts stems from a year spent living in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (in 1982) and subsequently studying social anthropology at Cambridge University.

Rebecca is currently Artist in Residence at the British Museum, Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas. From 2005-2010 she was part of a research group at the museum working on the relatively little-known Melanesian collections.  She now continues her research in that area, working mainly with the collections at the British Museum ethnography stores in Shoreditch.

Rebecca’s work is about exploring the shared histories between the people that made these artefacts, the explorers, anthropologists and travelers that obtained them and the museum that now houses them. In storage the object is numbered, labeled, catalogued, photographed and measured; yet its aesthetic qualities can still be appreciated.

Click here to view artist's website – www.rebeccajewell.co.uk

Click here to view artist's website – www.rebeccajewell.co.uk