Rebecca Bergese
Email: rebeccabergese@yahoo.co.uk
Seeing is Believing
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there”, L.P.Hartley, ‘The Go-Between’, (1953)
Moment by moment we engage with the world around us, looking through the prism of our accumulated experience. The past is not discreet and finished but exists in our present, shaping, colouring and forming our encounters.
Through the process of painting, layering, erasing or eradicating to create marks and spaces, my work explores the fluctuations of meaning that we find at the threshold between one object and another, or the cusp between one self and another.
1980 BA Psychology, University of Warwick
1982 Post-Grad. Diploma Theatre Design, Croyden College of Art
1995 MA Psychoanalytic Observational Studies, University of East London
1999 M Psych.Psych. University of East London/Tavistock Centre
2005 Foundation course, Chelsea College of Art and Design, UAL
2009 BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, UAL
Professional experience
1982 – 1986
Rebecca Bergese worked as a Costume Designer and assistant designer for a number of contemporary dance, theatre and TV companies including the National Theatre, the BBC and Michael Clarke, Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane.
1998 – 2003
As a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Rebecca Bergese has worked in the London boroughs of Redbridge, Hackney and Camden, combining clinical work with an interest in research and training.
2004 – to present
Alongside her own continuous art practice, Rebecca Bergese works as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Centre in London.
Exhibitions
Group shows
- Costume designs for contemporary dance, Edinburgh Festival
- ‘Something to Say’, Lauderdale House, London
- ‘Paperworks’, RK Burt Gallery, London
- ‘Primary’, Cathedral School, London SE1
- Waterloo Gallery, London
- ‘ Playing and Reality’ Tavistock Centre, London
Publications
2006 Essay on ‘Hidden Stories and Untold Truths’, the work of John Crossley and Derek Marks at the Bluthner Gallery, London
2008 “Understanding your 10 to 11 year old”, Jessica Kingsley, London
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