About…
Rebekah, a Ceramic Sculptor, originally from the UK moved to New Zealand with her family in 2005 she now works from her home at: The Kauri Tree Studio, Picton, Aotearoa New Zealand.
She gained a Diploma in Ceramic Arts (Level 6) from Otago Polytechnic, via Auckland Studio Potters, in 2013 and undertook studies in Sculpture, Life drawing & Design at Hungry Creek Art School Puhoi, Auckland.
Rebekah is represented by a number of select galleries throughout New Zealand and has works in private collections World wide.
She is a member of The Suter Art Society, Nelson.
A finalist in the 2025 Small Sculpture Prize, Waiheke Art Gallery and had 3 pieces of work selected into The Suter Gallery Bi annual exhibition:
“Fire & Earth - Contemporary Ceramics from the Top of the South” in 2022 & 2024
Living near the coast encourages her to be a watcher of water, enjoying a slow pace of living and making, becoming part of its ebb & flow.
Rebekah will occasionally incorporate local wild dug clay & slip or river sand into her ceramic work, grounding the pieces in the land she now calls home.
Pieces are sculptural, often biomorphic in design to express her fascination with the skeletal forms of plants & animals. The works becoming a vehicle to capture movement, time, light & shadow.
Her most recent body of work sees her return to the human figure; reductive, roughly & quickly modelled resulting in an inherent vitality of movement. Inspired by myths & legends from around Aotearoa, in particular Te Wai Pounamu, the South Island, these figurative works take on an other worldly persona telling the unique stories of people, water & land.
These works encourage you to get close, touch, explore from different viewpoints, hopefully enabling the viewer to connect with her in a
shared story of place.
