Rebecca Fortnum

Rebecca Fortnum (born 1963) is a British artist, writer, and academic.

Education and Biography

Fortnum studied English at Corpus Christi College in Oxford before gaining an MFA at Newcastle University. In 2009, she became Reader and Pathway Leader of Fine Art (Visual Art) at Camberwell College of Arts, one of London's leading art-education institutions. She was Professor of Fine Art at Middlesex University, London.[1] until 2016 and is currently Professor of Fine Art at the Royal College of Art in London and Founding Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Painting published by Intellect.

Fortnum was born in London in 1963. She currently lives and works in London as well. Fortnum, who primarily creates paintings,[2] has exhibited in England and internationally, and has received grants and travel awards[3] including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation; the British Council; the Arts Council of England; the British School in Rome and the Art and Humanities Research Council.

She has also conducted academic research and written extensively about artistic practice, especially the practice of contemporary women artists.[4] Her visual art practices include painting, drawing, printmaking, and curating.[5]

Research

The research that Fortnum conducts falls into three different categories that include documenting artists’ processes, a visual art practice, and fine art pedagogic research. In 2008 she was appointed to be the international lead artist for Trade in Ireland and began to write about the role of ‘not knowing’ within the creative process, publishing On Not Knowing; how artists think with Elizabeth Fisher in 2013. Her solo exhibition ''Self Contained was at the Freud Museum London in 2013 and was accompanied by a book published by RGAP. Fortnum has a specialized interest in women artists, which resulted in publishing a book called Contemporary British Women Artists in 2007. In this she interviewed artists for BBC Radio 4’s Woman's Hour.[5]

gollark: Oh, and if for some reason you're an *incredibly* self-confident person who thinks all acts they do are right, you'll turn out maximally non-evil.
gollark: Being vaguely aware of that sort of thing, and also that I live in a relatively comfortable position in what is among the richest societies ever, I feel bad about *not* doing more things, which would cause me to be more evil than someone who just ignores this issue forever, which is not, according to arbitrary moral intuitions I have™, something which an evilness measuring thing should say.
gollark: With any actual planning you can just give away as much as reasonably possible. It's just an issue of good management of stuff.
gollark: There are *not* that many people who actually go to the logical conclusion of that line of thinking and go "guess I'll donate all my excess income to charities".
gollark: It would be bad for you and you could argue that not doing so maximizes long-run donation, but you aren't actually maximizing that either.

References
  1. "Prof. Rebecca Fortnum". Middlesex University, Longon. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
  2. Gasworks Exhibition
  3. Debretts Entry
  4. Amazon page for 'Contemporary British Women Artists: In Their Own Words' by Rebecca Fortnum
  5. "Reader in Fine Art Biography". Camberwell. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2013.


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