Rebecca Chesney
Rebecca Chesney’s work is concerned with the politics of landscape: economics and wealth, social issues and justice, and the effects these have on natural ecologies and people.
She uses many methods to gather information: visiting archives, utilising open source data, talking to community members and documenting flora and fauna through drawing, video and sound with the results taking the form of installations, interventions, maps, and creating large scale living sculptures in the landscape..
Artist and Researcher
Recent works include commissions for the Harewood Craft Biennial (2024) in collaboration with the British Textile Biennial (2023); Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset (2023); HOME, Manchester (2023); Super Slow Way, east Lancashire (2022); and TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien, Austria (2021). She was Visiting Artist at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2021) and awarded a Lucas Artist Fellowship to Montalvo in California, USA (2016-18). She is a recipient of a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award 2025 and is currently Art and Horticulture artist in residence at Hospitalfield in Scotland.