About

Rebecca Massey is an Australian-born Irish artist based in the West of Ireland. She graduated with a BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art from Sligo I.T. (now ATU) and an MSc in Film Making from Staffordshire University & Filmbase in Dublin. After working as an In-House Artist for a well known Arts and Graphics Supplies establishment, freelancing as an Art Director on short and feature films and working as a Festival Artist and Programme assistant with the Irish Film Institutes Education Department, Rebecca returned to Sligo in 2017 where she now lives and works in Sligo town. Rebecca has worked across a broad range of media, from drawing and film production to installation and music, and has exhibited her work in group shows around Ireland and the UK.

Artist Statement

I love drawing. Working with digital and traditional drawing techniques, I try to create figurative images that have a playful introspection to them, narratives that suggest notions of being with the viewer, immersive emotional atmospheres, or small truths that can be shared visually. I get a lot of satisfaction from putting pencil to paper, pen to tablet or arranging objects to create lines that move and can tell a tale. I get lost and found again in the making and remaking of things, the merging of ideas and different patterns. I find it fascinating seeing how all the different parts, the broken shards of things, fit together again into something slightly altered from what they were before because my hand has been there. Drawing for me, is like discovering something extraordinary within the ordinary, the beginning lines of a story you didn't realise exsisted that slowly emerge into a narrative all of thier own, something you hadn't imagined before you began.