Becca May Collins

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• School

  School of Communication

  Programme

  MA Visual Communication

  Specialism

  Visual Communication: Illustration

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  • @beccamaycollins
  • http://www.beccamaycollins.co.uk

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• Becca May Collins is an image-maker whose work explores the development of sentimentality towards a site. Concerned with highlighting emotional relationships with home and place in an increasingly globalised world, she works with specific sites over a prolonged period of time to create collections of imagery. Using the act of drawing on location to gain knowledge and understanding, she then reconstructs these scenes from memory in the studio; the images giving the viewer an insight into the intangible. Her images are warm and considerate, containing personal perspectives and gentle narratives, which are evidence of her extensive academic research into the relationship between the act of drawing and a ‘sense of place’.
  

   

  Becca has work in public and private collections, including the Royal Collection and is a New Contemporaries Artist for 2019. 

• Previous degrees

• The Drawing Year, Royal Drawing School, London, 2017; BA (Hons) Illustration, Plymouth University, 2015

• Experiences

• Visiting Lecturer, Kingston School of Art, London, 2019; Young Associates Faculty, Royal Drawing School, London, 2017–2019; Me Here to You There Across RCA Workshop Co-Lead (with Daisy Buckle), Royal College of Art, London, 2018; The Hafod Trust Residency, Wales, 2018; Dumfries House Residency, Scotland, 2018; Featured Artist at Brockwell Park, London, 2018

• Exhibitions

• Me Here to You There with Across RCA, Hockney Gallery, London, 2018; RDP with the Royal College of Art, Peckham Liberal Club, London, 2018; The Drawing Year End-of-Year Exhibition, Royal Drawing School, London, 2018; Best of the Drawing Year, Christies King Street, London, 2017; The Drawing Year Open Studios, Space Studios, London, 2017; SKETCH OPEN 2017 with Rabley Drawing Centre, 2017; SIX, Devonport Guildhall, Plymouth, 2016; Crickhowell Open, Crickhowell Art Gallery, Wales, 2016; On Paper, Mercer-Chance Gallery, London, 2016; Cold Kisses, Bruton Art Factory, Somerset, 2015; Hot '15 Degree Show, Plymouth University, Plymouth, 2015; Reportager Award, UWE, Bristol, 2015

• Awards

• New Contemporaries, 2019; The Plymouth Drawing Award, 2015

• Sponsors

• The Hafod Trust; The Royal Drawing School