Rebecca Key

Dr Rebecca Key (now Sumnall) exhibited internationally, and worked as an art director in the film and television industry. Now retired, she used object placement and mise-en-scène techniques, referred to as drawing with objects, to examine the relationship between artist and gallery space, and mythologies that surround the creative process within the institution, and other specific sites.

"This kind of trickery isn't just one-note high jinks,
it's tough love. Once we're familiar with a place,
we almost always tune it out. Key jolts us awake by making the familiar strange. For a moment, at least, we're aware of what surrounds us."
The Washington Post

Education
2019 PhD, The Arts & Humanities Research Centre, Coventry University, Coventry (study sponsored by The BBC Grace Wyndham Goldie Trust)

2008 M.Res (Art and Design History) Liverpool John Moores University

2006 PGCE (Post Compulsory) University of Central Lancashire

2001 MFA (Sculpture) Edinburgh College Of Art

1999 B.A. HONS (Drawing and Painting) Edinburgh College of Art

Solo:
2018 Research, Lanchester Research Gallery, Coventry University, Coventry

2017 Object Drawings: The Thief and her Lover, Sala Giudice, Vittoria, Italy

2016 SHE, Vernon Museum & Archives, British Columbia, Canada

2014 Patronage, U-Hang at Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furnace, Cumbria

2010 Counterfeit, SIM, Korpúlfsstaðir, Iceland

2010 Archetype, Transformer Gallery, Washington DC, USA

2009 Rebecca Key: apexart Residency Blog New York, Cornerhouse
Projects,Manchester

2008 Changeover, Site/ 68 Hope Street Liverpool John Moores University
Gallery, Liverpool

2007 In Residence, Liverpool Community College, Liverpool

2006 Bankley Studios Gallery, Bankley Gallery Studios, Manchester

2005 Administration, Arena Gallery, Arena House, Liverpool

2001 In Memoriam, The Mounted Gallery, Edinburgh


Group:

2017 Lexicon of Artists Gestures, Documenta14, Athens

2017 Concurrent#3, Tate

2017 Oblivion, L'Associazione culturale MPGArt, Teatro Naselli di Comiso, Comiso

2017 Oblivion, L'Associazione culturale MPGArt, Sala Mazzone, Vittoria

2016 SIXTY, Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes Centre for Contemporary Curation, London

2016 Utopia:Dystopia, Walcot Chapel, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath

2016 Tiny Library, Boom Festival, Idanha-a-Nova, Portuga...