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REBECCA ELVES

Rebecca Elves is a visual artist using painting and ceramics to build fictional worlds. Using hand coiling to emphasise traces of touch, she invites clay to take on a life of its own. As vessels emerge, they become characters. Once fired, their innards become unreachable. A pressure builds: unknown things inside pushing against the pressure of the world beyond their ceramic walls. By painting directly from these vessels, the stories simmering inside them begin to spill.


Recent exhibitions include Slip, Oceans Apart Gallery (2026), Necrology, Haarlem Art Space (2025), VESSEL, OHSH Projects (2024), Multitasking, Lido Stores (2024), What I See I’ll Never Tell, Wilder Gallery (2021) and The Studio at 4am, Hastings Contemporary (2020). Rebecca has spoken about her practice at venues including Drawing Conversations 5, UCA (2024) & Drawing Room (2023). In 2023 she was commissioned to create site-specific ceramic listening vessels in Romney Marsh; in 2021, she was awarded a British Council Research Venice Research Fellowship. She completed her MA at the Royal College of Art in 2016, where she was awarded the Gordon Peter Pickard travel bursary. 

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MULTISTOREY: REBECCA ELVES

1 – 11 October 2026

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Education
2025-26 Turps Margate Mentoring Programme
2014-2016 MA Visual Communication | Royal College of Art
Awarded fees bursary & Gordon Peter Pickard Travel Bursary
2009-2012 BA (Hons) Illustration & Animation | Kingston School of Art
1:1 | Prize winner: Narrative design

Solo Exhibitions
2026 Multistorey, Maternity Series, Liminal Gallery, Margate
2023 In and Beyond Things, Limbo Arts, Margate
2022 The House Was Like Her, Daphne Oram Gallery, Canterbury

Group Exhibitions
2026 Slip, Oceans Apart Gallery, Salford
2026 Turps Margate Show, The Romantic, Margate
2026 Slip, Oceans Apart, Salford
2026 Feast of Fools, Limbo, Margate
2025 Necrology, Haarlem Art Space, Derbyshire
2025 Forces of Nature, Oare Gunpowder Works, Faversham (supported by Cement Fields)
2024 VESSEL, The Bottle Factory, London (curated by OHSH projects)
2024 Situational, Safehouse 2, Peckham
2024 Multitasking, Lido Stores, Margate
2023 Lido Open, Lido Stores, Margate
2023 A Siren’s Call, Art in Romney Marsh
2022 Lido Open, Lido Stores, Margate
2022 Duo Supple Octopus, The Tub, Hackney
2021 What I See I’ll Never Tell, Wilder Gallery, London
2020 Ghosts That Live Amongst Us, 155a Gallery, London
2020 The Studio at 4 a.m., Hastings Contemporary, Hastings

Selected Awards, Grants, Residencies & Fellowships
2023 Art in Romney Marsh Commission
2021 British Council Venice Research Fellowship
2020 Shortlisted, BEERS London Summer Marathon
2015 Gordon Peter Pickard Travel Bursary, Royal College of Art

Selected Lectures, Presentations & Workshops
2024 Presentation, Drawing Conversations, UCA Farnham
2023 ‘Sanctuary Vessels’, presentation and panel discussion, Drawing Research Forum, Drawing Room
2022 ‘The House Was Like Her’, presentation and panel discussion, Home Symposium, University of Gloucestershire

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