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Rebecca Niblett was born in 1978 near Toronto, Ontario. Growing up in the City of Kawartha Lakes, art was an important part of her life from early childhood. Working as an environmental educator, art remained a hobby until recently. She currently lives in Haliburton, Ontario where she is pursuing a Visual and Creative Arts Diploma at the Haliburton School of the Arts.  

 

Rebecca’s current project is a series of works using white glue and water colour or other materials to create marbled or fluid patterns that change and grow as the glue dries. Text and glue image transfers are layered into various pieces to obscure, alter, and sometimes reveal meaning. 

 

Her work addresses the interconnections between humans and our natural environments. The actions and behaviour of humans now have a profound impact globally, not just on other humans but on our planet as a whole. Our behaviours do not occur in a vacuum; they occur in the context of structures of social, cultural, historical and ideological systems. Her current glue project aims to crack the hegemonic forces formed by these systems, allowing the viewer space to create their own understandings of the world. 

 

 

"The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable."

Robert Henri 
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