Rebecca Salter | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts

Rebecca Salter RA

Rebecca Salter is a painter and printmaker.

She 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 she 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 practice in painting. 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 had a major retrospective into the light of things at Yale Center for British Art, 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 also undertaken several architectural commissions including 15 Sackville Street, London W1 and St George’s Hospital, Tooting.

In 2017, Salter was elected the Keeper of the Royal Academy. She lives and works in London.

Profile

Royal Academician

Printmaker

Nationality: British

Elected RA: 10 December 2014

Keeper from: 2017

Gender: Female

Preferred media: Printmaking, Woodblock prints, Wood engraving, and Painting

Works by Rebecca Salter in the RA Collection

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Rebecca Salter RA

Untitled AG48, 2014

Gouache and drawing (pyrography) on japanese paper

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

Gallery

Rebecca Salter RA, Untitled AD30, 2012.

Mixed media on Japanese paper on linen. 160 x 180 cm. © Rebecca Salter.

Rebecca Salter RA, Untitled AH27, 2015.

Mixed media on linen. 160 x 170 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

Rebecca Salter RA, Untitled AH47, 2015.

Mixed media on muslin on linen. 100 x 105 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

Rebecca Salter RA, Untitled AK3, 2017.

Mixed media on muslin on linen. 190 x 195 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

Rebecca Salter RA, Untitled AJ14, 2016.

Mixed media on Japanese paper. 92 x 98 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

Rebecca Salter RA, Untitled AK1, 2017.

Watercolour on Somerset paper. 98 x 92 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

Rebecca Salter RA, Grisaille series 1 and 2, 2016.

Editions of 14.

Japanese woodblock on kozo paper. 35.5 x 27 cm, 35.5 x 27 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

Rebecca Salter RA, Rasa, 2017.

Edition of 30.

Japanese woodblock on torinoko paper. 33 x 48 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

Selected CV
- 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
  Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA
- Selected publications
  
  Rebecca Salter, Japanese Woodblock Printing, 2001
  A&C Black/University of Hawaii
  
  Rebecca Salter, Japanese Popular Prints, 2006
  A&C Black/University of Hawaii
  
  ed. Gillian Forrester, Rebecca Salter: into the light of things, 2011
  Yale University Press