Rebecca Salter PRA
Rebecca Salter PRA
Rebecca Salter studied at Bristol Polytechnic and then at Kyoto City University of the Arts in Japan, where she lived for six years. While living in Kyoto, Salter studied traditional Japanese woodblock printing with Professor Kurosaki Akira and has since written two books on the subject. Her interest in printmaking is combined with her main practice in painting. Until 2016 she was Associate Lecturer on the MA Printmaking Course at Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts, London.
Salter exhibits regularly in London and internationally, and in 2011 she had a major retrospective into the light of things at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut. A monograph was published to coincide with the show. An accompanying exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery explored links between Western artists and Japan. She has also been artist in residence twice (2003 and 2011) at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Connecticut. Salter has undertaken several architectural commissions including 15 Sackville Street, London W1, St George’s Hospital, Tooting and NGS Macmillan Cancer Unit, Chesterfield Royal Hospital. She has work in many private and public collections including Tate, British Museum, Yale Center for British Art and Yale University Art Gallery.
Salter was elected as a Royal Academician to the category of Printmaker in December 2014 and, in June 2017, was elected as the Keeper of the Royal Academy. On 10th December 2019 she was elected the 27th President of the Royal Academy of Arts and became the first female President since the Academy was founded in 1768.
Profile
Printmaker
Nationality: British
Elected RA: 10 December 2014
President from: 2019
Keeper from: 2017 - 2019
Gender: Female
Preferred media: Printmaking, Woodblock prints, Wood engraving, and Painting
Works by Rebecca Salter in the RA Collection
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Works associated with Rebecca Salter in the RA Collection
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The act of drawing is at the heart of everything I do. It is the most intimate of processes, encouraging you to explore and take risks and at its best reveals both the hand and mind of the artist to the viewer.
Rebecca Salter RA
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Gallery
Rebecca Salter RA, Untitled AD30, 2012.
Rebecca Salter RA, Untitled AH27, 2015.
Rebecca Salter RA, Untitled AH47, 2015.
Rebecca Salter RA, Untitled AK3, 2017.
Rebecca Salter RA, Untitled AJ14, 2016.
Rebecca Salter RA, Untitled AK1, 2017.
Rebecca Salter RA, Grisaille series 1 and 2, 2016.
Rebecca Salter RA, Rasa, 2017.
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'Picture the Light' by Rebecca Salter PRA and Max de Wardener
Picture the Light was born from a conversation between Rebecca Salter PRA and composer Max de Wardener about traditional Japanese musical instruments and inspired by the films of New Zealand’s experimental artist Len Lye.
It explores the medium of drawing with music composed by de Wardener. The resulting collaboration is a soundtrack with both eastern and western influences and a film about drawing that is almost painterly, featuring Salter seemingly drawing with time itself.
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Selected CV
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Recent solo exhibitions
2016 Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Beardsmore Gallery, London
2015 First Light, Howard Scott Gallery, New York
Along These Lines, Beardsmore Gallery, London
2013 Beyond, Beardsmore Gallery, London
2011 into the light of things: Rebecca Salter 1981-2011, Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut
Solo exhibition, Howard Scott Gallery, New York
Drawn, Beardsmore Gallery, London
2009 Pale Remembered, Beardsmore Gallery, London
2007 The Unquiet Gaze, Howard Scott Gallery, New York
2006 Bliss of Solitude, Beardsmore Gallery, London
2004 Inner Eye, Howard Scott Gallery, New York -
Selected collections
Tate
The British Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
The British Council
Government Art Collection
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
Frechen Kunstverein, Germany
Graphotek, Stadtbucherei, Stuttgart, Germany
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA
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Selected publications
Rebecca Salter, Japanese Woodblock Printing, 2001
A&C Black/University of HawaiiRebecca Salter, Japanese Popular Prints, 2006
A&C Black/University of Hawaiied. Gillian Forrester, Rebecca Salter: into the light of things, 2011
Yale University Press
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