Visiting Artist Lecture: Rebecca Fortnum

About

Rebecca Fortnum is an artist, writer and academic and is Professor of Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. She has been Professor of Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, Middlesex University and The Glasgow School of Art, where she was Head of the School of Fine Art. She has had solo shows at the Freud Museum London, the V&A’s Museum of Childhood, and Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham. 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Fellow in Creative Arts at Merton College, Oxford, where she developed her painting project, A Mind Weighted with Unpublished Matterpublished as a book by Slimvolume in 2020.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) and A Companion to Contemporary Drawing (co-edited with Kelly Chorpening, Wiley Blackwell 2020).