Statement

Rebecca McCardle is a visual artist whose practice interrogates themes of being, cognition, and perception. Working across 2D and 3D forms, she employs both analogue and digital processes to examine and reconfigure the material conditions of object, space, and place, foregrounding the sensory and temporal dimensions of experience.

Central to her methodology is a deliberate deceleration. Attempting resistance to the accelerated logics of contemporary culture, characterised by perpetual motion, consumption, and immediacy. Through this enacted pause, her work invites sustained attention and embodied engagement, challenging habitual modes of viewing.

Her practice includes a series of Polaroid works that appropriate the visual language of the 1970s family album. These materially situated, softly abstracted images articulate a tension between analogue memory as tactile, indexical trace and the immaterial, backlit, and digitally encoded nature of contemporary image cultures.

McCardle holds a PGCE and a BA in Fine Art from the University of Brighton. Alongside her artistic practice, she is a Digital Innovation Lead at Chichester College Group, where her work operates at the intersection of creative practice, pedagogy, and emergent technologies.

Exhibitions

• 2026 – Saga Odyssey, The Gallery, Saga Spirit of Adventure and Discovery.
• 2026 – Odyssey, Hastings Contemporary.
• 2025 – Everywhere, Group exhibition, Skyway Gallery, Shoreham-by-Sea.
• 2023 – Orchis, University of Brighton, Group Show, Edward Street.
• 2022 – The Luminous and the Grey, Group exhibition, Colonnade House.
• 2020 – By the Sea, West Buildings, Worthing.
• 2019 – Lemniscate, Worthing Light Festival.
• 2019 – Out of Hours, GBMC, Brighton.
• 2019 – EBS at Coast, WAOH, Worthing.
• 2019 – (M)Other, Group exhibition, Colonnade House.
• 2018 – Rorschach, Open 18, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery.
• 2018 – CAST, at Cast45 EBS, Brighton PhotoFringe.
• 2018 – Clustering, installation Worthing Light Festival.
• 2018 – Cluster, solo show, Colonnade House, Worthing.
• 2017 – Barred, Worthing Artists Open Houses, Connaught Theatre.
• 2015 – Free Range Graduate Show, Truman Brewery, London.
• 2015 – Graduate Show, Northbrook College, Worthing.
• 2015 – Vessel, solo exhibition, St Paul’s, Worthing.
• 2015 – Cloth and Clothing, group exhibition, Northbrook College, Worthing.
• 2015 – Worthing Art Trail, group exhibition, East Beach Studios, Worthing.
• 2015 – https://worthingart.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/under-the-spotlight-rebecca-mccardle/
• 2014 – Worthing Art Trail, East Beach Studios, Worthing.
• 2014 – Transition, group exhibition, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester.
• 2014 – Art on the Pier, group exhibition, Worthing Pier.
• 2013 – Dress, Open 13, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery.
• 2012 – Foundation Graduate Show, Northbrook College.