Rebecca Chesney

Rebecca Chesney is a visual artist whose work is concerned with the relationship between humans and nature and how we perceive, romanticize, and translate the landscape. Her projects take the form of installations, interventions, drawings, maps, and walks. She has been commissioned by Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Bronte Parsonage Museum in North Yorkshire, Grizedale Arts in Cumbria, and Landlife in Liverpool and was awarded a Gasworks International Fellowship in 2013. She has attended residencies at the Nirox Foundation in South Africa, at Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts and the Wordsworth Trust in the Lake District National Park. Her work has been widely exhibited in the U.K. as well as in Japan, Germany, India, Spain, Ireland, and Italy. She is based in Preston, U.K.

Visions of resilience: Eighteen artists say or show something in response to the word “resilience”

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Visions of resilience: Eighteen artists say or show something in response to the word “resilience”

By David Maddox Patrick Lydon Juan Carlos Arroyo Katrine Claassens, and 14 more

[roundtable_menu] [contributor]Juan Carlos Arroyo, Bogotá [excerpt]What survives in the act of resistance to a hospital closure is an ideal of human care, a concept of health and selfless humanitarianism that