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Rebecca Garrard is a Manchester-based artist, curator and director of 1838 Collective. She holds a First-Class BA in Philosophy and Italian from the University of Exeter and graduated with Distinction from an MA in Painting at Manchester School of Art. Working primarily with ink and charcoal on paper, her practice explores how contemporary drawing and painting communicate forms of knowledge that resist verbal or philosophical interpretation, including affective and traumatic memory, intergenerational experience and somatic knowledge.
For Garrard, art-making is not about assertion, but attunement - a way to witness inner states and resist conditioned habits of seeing. Her work invites slow looking and rewards presence over interpretation.
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