REBECCA TUCKER
Negative space and abstraction
Rebecca Tucker, b. 1973, is a Lancashire born/London based painter, with a BA in Fine Art from Reading University 1996 and is an alumni of the Turps Banana Art School on their Off Site Programme (2022-23).
Her paintings are the result of a visual ‘discussion’ between abstract and more representational methods of depicting subjects. Rebecca is keen to play with the viewers perception of subject and space in her paintings and then pull that preconceived idea back to the appreciation of what are essentially abstract marks on a two dimensional surface.
A current focus for Rebecca Tucker is looking at where organic and architectural forms meet, particularly in structures made of glass. Her study of negative space plays beautifully into depicting these light-filled spaces. The paintings exist between the seen and the remembered, the physical and the emotional, offering reflections on how place and memory intertwine through the act of seeing and making.
"My paintings form an aide memoire, exploring my response to places that hold personal significance, rooting my practice in the recording of place, time, and personal memory. I am drawn to the resonance of specific locations and the unseen histories embedded within them."
Recent notable successes include selection for the 2025 Jackson’s Art Prize Longlist, the 2024, 2022 and 2021 ING Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries in London, selection for the Royal Watercolour Society Open 2024 and 2023 at Bankside Gallery, being selected for the Royal West of England Academy Open, the Wales Contemporary and the Society of Women Artists Open at the Mall Galleries in 2023, selection for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022, being shortlisted for the Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize 2022 and being longlisted in the 2021 Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize.
