Rebecca Spencer Fine Art

Artist’s Statement


My work is rooted in the intense feelings of anxiety felt when contemplating my own mortality. Existing outside within the green has enabled me to find stillness and calm. I work in the non-refusing landscape where I perform and communicate to the camera. I transform my performative documentation into the darkroom, creating photographs that aim to convey silent expressions of existentialism. I work intuitively and freely. The darkroom is an extension of the conversation between me, Earth and camera, as I find that the performative routine continues throughout. These steps provide me with a moment for meditation. 'Doing' is integral to my practise. I let my body lead the direction. I follow my subconscious for this process, demanding surrender from my active thoughts.

I find joy in the challenge of looking, looking to find the threads that connect my photographs together. Recently touch, movement, and texture are blossoming recurrences throughout my negatives. Quiet, deadly, soft, volatile. Like a fog she lingers in the corners of every room.

Get in touch with me via rebecca.rspencer@gmail.com to discuss rates, scheduling and available prints.

Old stone plate to the right, large patch of long wild grass next to it on the right.
Several rocks found naturally, shadows on the face.
Pine trees with only one side dark and wet from side rain fall.

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puddle of water on a rock face.
hand and upper back of female body.
stones placed diagonally in the frame, two feet stood on a rock in the top right
two footprints made in the sand of a river bed.
two arms pulling a rock from the river
stones placed in squares along the frame in grass, one large rock sits in the first left square.
dark silhouette of tree top
someone holding a rock to their face in the landscape.
hair among rocks and grass

Manchester School of Art Final show, exhibited (2021)

Contemporary Six 'Habitat', exhibited (2022)

Inch Arts Gallery 'Together', exhibited (2022)

Sola Journal 'The Land From Which We Come', work published (2022)

colour image of hands and arms laying on the up side of a rock formation
colour image of a mossy rock emerging from wild grass and fern.

Contact me via rebecca.rspencer@gmail.com for enquiries.

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