Rebecca Gould is a multi-disciplinary artist. She works with sculpture, video and text, her installations explore labour, often through non-braided narrative writing, quilting and other acts of obsessive care.
Gould critically examines the intersection of work, capital, and domesticity, particularly focusing on how these factors shape the UK’s fractured society, the collective effect this has on individuals, how to eradicate professionalism and to live as a collective.
She co-founded, STUDIO CYBI, an artist-led project that came from a desire to collaborate and create occasional manifestations, acting as both a nucleus of productivity and a social venture, which encompasses; exhibitions, events, public commissions and publications. They were awarded a Create grant, The Arts Council of Wales, to publish their manifesto, encapsulating their philosophy of shared autonomy and grassroots art, 2022. They were awarded The Artes Mundi Venice10 commission 2023.
Gould is currently working on her first novella (working title) The Southstack Fleawort, a tale of a middle aged breakdown.
She was selected for the ARCADECAMPFA Library Residency 2024
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Full CV available on request
Testun/with, a conversation between artists Kath Ashill and Rebecca Gould, July 2025, 1 hr 9 min
SELECTED CVEDUCATION & FELLOWSHIP HISTORY2020 – 2022 THE FREELANDS FOUNDATION Artist Support Programme, London
2020 – 2022 DEVOTION, Practice-based Writing Programme, online
2004 – 2005 MA Fine Art, CENTRAL SAINT MARTIN’S, London
1999 – 2002 (1st Class Hons) BA (Hons) Fine Art, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, Cardiff
1998 – 1999 Foundation Course in Art & Design (Distinction) COLEG MENAI, Bangor
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS2016 – present Studio Cybi, Founder, Fundraiser and Organiser in Collaboration with Iwan Lewis
AWARDS, COMMISSIONS & GRANTS2024 ARCADECAMPFA, Writer in Residence Grant recipient
2023 ARTES MUNDI, Venice 10 Production Grant (Studio Cybi)
2020 – 2022 FREELANDS FOUNDATION Artist Fellowship Grant
2022 THE ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES, CREATE Grant (Studio Cybi)
2020, 2021 THE ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES Cultural Response Small Grant
2020 FREELANDS FOUNDATION Emergency Grant recipient
2020 THE ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES, Emergency Grant (Studio Cybi)
2019 THE EATON FUND Grant Recipient
2017 Nominated for THE PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION Award for Artists
2015 WALES ARTS INTERNATIONAL Travel Award
2013 Commission, CONWY FEAST FESTIVAL, Public artwork
2012 Awarded DEPARTURE FOUNDATION Bursary Studio
2011 Invited and Shortlisted for GRANGE GARDENS Sculpture Commission
2008 Individual Artist Project Grant, THE ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES
2007 Commission, LOCWS INTERNATIONAL 3, Public artwork
STUDIO CYBI2025 THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE DIAL, Two audio pieces on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra.
2025 RADIOPHRENIA, Two audio works broadcast on radio festival based in Glasgow
2024 ARE THE STONES STILL STANDING STILL, Staffordshire St, Peckham, London, Studio Cybi
2024 LAPIWCH O A’I WERTHU YN OL I FI, STORIEL, NCAGW commission, Studio Cybi
2024 NO BOUNDS RADIO, Online one hour radio broadcast, Studio Cybi
2023 Plantlife Cymru and Ucheldre Centre artwork commission, WHO GETS TO LIVE IN PARADISE Studio Cybi; ARTES MUNDI, Venice 10 Production Grant, Studio Cybi
2022 THE ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES, CREATE Grant, Studio Cybi
2021 POWLTIS, group exhibition cur. Studio Cybi, Mynydd Twr, Holyhead, online; TWMPATH, Solstice Radio, Made in Roath, Cardiff, Radio broadcast; SUMP, Lauren de Sá Naylor, Studio Cybi, online video premiere; UFTAROT DIVINATION SOCIETY, live event Studio Cybi, online
2020 TWMPATH, Radio broadcast, Studio Cybi, MONTEZ PRESS RADIO, New York; THE ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES, Emergency Grant, Studio Cybi
2019 TYRANNICAL REGINA, Studio Cybi, Public artwork commission at Llawn Festival, Llandudno; FFYNNON GWENFAEN group exhibition cur. Studio Cybi, St. Gwenfaen’s Well, Ynys Cybi
2018 THINGS WE SAID, group exhibition cur. Studio Cybi, Caergybi
2017 STUDIO CYBI commissioned to design cocktail for a-n ASSEMBLE event in Liverpool; STUDIO CYBI featured a-n poster of 100 hot artist-led spaces in the UK
2016 CUL-DE-SAC, group exhibition cur. Studio Cybi, Emrys Williams The Studio, Llandudno; ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE, group exhibition cur. Studio Cybi, Caergybi
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS2022RADICAL LETHARGY, Duo with Iwan Lewis, SID MOTION GALLERY, London, DUO
2021 TONNAU O CARIAD, Duo with Iwan Lewis, BAYART, Cardiff, DUO
2015 GIRLS, Duo with Lindsey Mendick, PERICLO, Oriel Wrexham, DUO
2014 CLAIRE DANES, Gallery 6, MOSTYN, Llandudno, SOLO
2006 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, THE UCHELDRE CENTRE, SOLO
2003 DIXI TRIXI, Spotlight, MOSTYN, Llandudno, SOLO
2002 OPHELIA, Outside THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WALES, Cardiff, SOLO
SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS2026 The Future Present, limited edition artist book, Loophole Projects
2025 TESTUN TESTUN, podcast by Dylan Huw, Conversation with Kath Ashill, featuring a chapter from The Southstack Fleawort2025 Artist-led spaces Survey, bilingual publication & interview featuring Studio Cybi, published by Studio Made
2024 This Space Is For The Curious, interview featured in creative essay by Lucy Smith, published by ARCADECAMPFA
2024 ENGAGE JOURNAL 47, David Cleary, Interview and article featuring Studio Cybi
2023No Time To Plan An Ending, bilingual publication & interview, G39, THE FREELANDS FOUNDATION & THE ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES; Chwareli, tyllau a phosibiliadau, Dylan Huw, BARN, Tachwedd 2023
2022 Book publication featuring article on my work, How To Symbolise This Fuck You, by writer Rebecca May Johnson, Aggregate, FREELANDS FOUNDATION; Alone Together, bilingual manifesto, Studio Cybi, THE ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES
2021 THE EXCHANGE, Eastside Projects, CAMP, g39, Newbridge, Spike Island & Turf Projects; RESEARCHING AND IMAGINING SUPPORT FOR WELSH AND WALES BASED ARTISTS TO DEVELOP AND SUSTAIN INTERNATIONALLY CONNECTED PRACTICES, Adlewyrchu, Digital publication with interview, commissioned by Louise Hobson
2020 The Skies Will Rearrange Themselves, FREELANDS FOUNDATION, online symposium
2019ONANIA d r e a m s, cur. LAUREN DE SÁ NAYLOR, Todmorden
2017 MOUSSE Magazine, review WAGSTAFF’S, Mostyn; AQNB, review Stored in the Depths, ISTHISIT?
2015 GUARDIAN GUIDE, Pick of the week, A Bestiary; Book publication, Neru Phuyt Issue II, MRS PATTERSON’S PRESS
2014 Publication, Claire Danes, Gallery 6, MOSTYN, featuring images & interview between artist & Alfredo Cramerotti Director of Mostyn; CCQ, online, Review of Claire Danes2013 CCQ, Issue 1, Review of Exotic Crop by Neil McNally
2012 Book publication, It Was Never Going To Be Straightforward, G39; Catalogue, CAVE, Liverpool Art Fair
2011 BBC NEWS, London, Grange Gardens Shortlist, online news of public artwork
2008 ARTY, magazine, no 24, featuring images
2007 Catalogue, LOCWS International 3, featuring images and text written about public commissioned sculpture; GUARDIAN GUIDE, Pick of the week, review of O Dreamland; A-N MAGAZINE, LOCWS 3 – Art across the city review, May; ARTY, magazine, no 23, featuring images of work; tuchwith, magazine, cyfrol 27, featuring images of work; MARMALADE, Don’t Call Us, Call Them, New Talent, magazine, issue 13
2006 A-N MAGAZINE, Beauty and The Beast review; Catalogue, THE SHAMAN PROJECT II; Catalogue, THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2025 FIRST THE BLADE, THEN THE EAR, NAN MOORS, Todmorden; The Errant Collaborators (a play within a play) MIRROR, Plymouth; Stage II, LLE at BAYART, Cardiff; BEEP & Do Androids Dream?, ORIEL CROESOR
2023 Pebble/Shoe, LLE at KINGSGATE PROJECT SPACE, London
2022 Welcome to Sunny Prestatyn, LOOPHOLE PROJECTS, ArcadeCampfa, Cardiff; Welcome to Sunny Prestatyn, Loophole Projects, MOSTYN, Llandudno; Aggregate, FREELANDS FOUNDATION, London; 40 plus 1, STORIEL, Bangor
2021 PUBLIC ARTWORK, Work printed on billboards, Various locations Cardiff City Centre, Wales in collaboration with g39, Cardiff and Jack Arts, London; No Time To Plan An Ending, G39, Cardiff; Your Foot In My Face and Other Tectonic Strategies, KINGSGATE PROJECT SPACE, London
2020 Gron yn cyflwyno: Rebecca Gould a Iwan Lewis, CYFOES GOGLEDD CYMRU, Online; I’m thinking of you …, GWENT ARTS IN HEALTH, Online; Picture Palace, TRANSITION GALLERY, London; Sprung Spring, G39, Cardiff
2019 C.B Super King Size Bedspread, GALERI, Caernarfon
2018 John Street, LLAWN FESTIVAL, Llandudno; Nightswimming, LLE at Mission Gallery, Swansea; mam.mom.mum, CALL, Tedder House, Llandudno; Things We Said, STUDIO CYBI, Ynys Môn; Celf, CYFOES GOGLEDD CYMRU, Palace Street, Caernarfon
2017 SHELF, instagram residency, Online; The Offy, pop-up shop at THE ROYAL STANDARD, Liverpool; Stored in the Depths, Online, cur. Luke Nairn, ISTHISIT?; Wagstaff’s, MOSTYN, Llandudno
2016 CUL-DE-SAC, Studio Cybi, The Studio, Llandudno; Allegory of The Cave, STUDIO CYBI, Ynys Môn; Skin Deep, SEIZE @S.T.C.F.T.H.O.T.S, Leeds
2015 A Bestiary, TURF PROJECTS, London; Neru Phuyt Issue II, K.C. CONTINENTAL STORES, London; Best in Show, It’s All Tropical, SAME SHIT DIFFERENT DAY GALLERY, London; MOSTYN Open 19, MOSTYN, Llandudno
2014 Gwenan International, THE OLD HAIRDRESSERS, Glasgow;
2013 Exotic Crop, GOAT MAJOR PROJECTS, Cardiff; Box of Delights, cur. Bedwyr Williams, CONWY FEAST FESTIVAL, Conwy; Haus of Helfa, LLAWN01 FESTIVAL, Llandudno
2012 CAVE art fair, BALTIC CREATIVE CAMPUS, Liverpool; The Autobiography of A Super-Tramp, G39, Cardiff; Boeing Way to Gas Street, 22 GAS STREET, Birmingham; Microcosm, DEPARTURE FOUNDATION, Leeds; Screen from Barcelona, ESPACIO DE PROYECTOS SANT PERE, Barcelona; LOCWS International, Adain Avion, THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, Swansea
2011 Artist’s Disguised Procession, CECIL SHARP HOUSE, London; Big Deal Sexy 100!!!, WALL TO WALL, London; Grange Gardens Sculpture Commission, GALERIE8, London; Artemisia, ST DAVID’S HALL, Cardiff
2010 Outlander, GALERI, Caernarfon, SOLO; Prop, DEPARTURE GALLERY, London; The Middle Of Nowhere, DEPARTURE GALLERY, London
2009 Auxesis, TACTILE BOSCH, Cardiff; The Shaman Project III, PLAS GLYN Y WEDDW, Llanbedrog
2008 Forget Me, GRISTLE MOUNTAIN, Fort Brockhurst; Live Art, ROYAL CAMBRIAN ACADEMY, Conwy; If You Build It, They Will Come, G39, Cardiff
2007 The Suitcase Project, THE OLD LIBRARY, Cardiff; The Suitcase Project, BEAVER PROJECTS, Copenhagen, Denmark; Magical Thinking, ELEVATOR GALLERY, London; Old Age, GRISTLE MOUNTAIN, Gosport; O Dreamland, TRANSITION GALLERY, Greatstone, Kent; LOCWS INTERNATIONAL 3, Swansea; Feel Good Feel Bad Boys and Girls, LANGE GLASSE 28, Ausberg, Germany; Anglesey Arts Show, THE UCHELDRE CENTRE, Holyhead; Real Writers Residency Programme, G39, Cardiff; Gift, MUSEUM MAN, Liverpool
2006 Objects in Waiting, END GALLERY, Sheffield; The Shaman Project II, BILBAO, Spain; Summer Exhibition, CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS, London; Y Lle Celf, THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD OF WALES; Askew, MADAME LILLIES, London
2005 Travelling Without Moving, ORIEL WASHINGTON, Cardiff; Another Project, CORNERHOUSE, Manchester; New Works, ORIEL WASHINGTON, Cardiff; MA Show, CENTRAL SAINT MARTIN’S, Charing Cross, London
2004 On The Underbelly, THE GREEN, Clerkenwell, London; Leviathan, CANDID ARTS CENTRE, London; Young Wales 6, ROYAL CAMBRIAN ACADEMY, Conwy; Clean Slate II, BAYART, Cardiff
