September 14 – October 12, 2024
Steve Turner is pleased to present Umbra, a solo exhibition featuring new ceramic sculpture by Glasgow-based Becky Tucker that are inspired by the history of Britain’s lost villages. Tucker relishes working with fired ceramic, the very material that survives for thousands of years. She uses white stoneware that is glazed several times as well as faux suede dyed with indigo to assemble the pieces of her larger works. The idea of lost artifacts is at the root of her practice and the objects she creates cannot be clearly placed in a specific time period. Her mix of source imagery–Chinese tomb guardians, fossils, motorcycle armor, medieval illuminated manuscripts and Indian theater costumes–complicates identifying the origin of the works. Tucker’s works imply that the past can be as shadowy as the future.
Becky Tucker (born 1993, Robin Hood’s Bay, England) graduated from Edinburgh College of Art (2017) before moving to Glasgow where she now lives. Her work was included in a group exhibition at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2023); Untitled Art Fair, Miami Beach (2023) and Art Brussels (2024). Umbra is Tucker’s debut solo exhibition in the United States.
Born 1993, Robin Hood’s Bay, England
Lives and works in Glasgow
Education
2017
MA, Fine Art, The University of Edinburgh
2015
Sculpture, Visual Culture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Umbra, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2023
Arca, Five Years Archway, London
2022
Gambrel, Saltspace Gallery, Glasgow
Group Exhibitions
2024
Dante’s Inferno, Unit London, London
The Golden Ratio, Soho Revue, London
Art Brussels (with Steve Turner)
Buried, OHSH Projects, London
I Want to Be An Insect, Pictorum Gallery, London
Creatures & Masks, Fabian Lang, Zurich
Peasants Revolt Now, Prayer Room, Birmingham
Untitled, Miami Beach (with Steve Turner)
The Queens of Aquitaine, curated by Marcelle Joseph, Pi Artworks, London
Neo Gothic, curated by Dale Adcock & Henry Hussey, OHSH Projects, London
Illuminations, curated by Natalia Gonzales Martin, Steve Turner
Ares, The Pavilion, Cromwell Place, London
Vulnerabilia, curated by Axel Gutapfel, Civic House, Glasgow
Two by Two, Morell House, London
2022
Interior Castles, curated by Naomi Workman & Melloney Harvey, Hartslane, London
Destructive Mollusc, Haze Projects, Staffordshire Street Studios, London
God of War, OHSH Projects, London
Malachite, Old Royal High School, Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh
Group Show, Liliya Gallery, London
Let Them Eat Fake, Bad Art Presents, The Bomb Factory, London
Cool, Fresh, Sweet Waters, The Tub, London
2021
Human Concern, curated by The Artists Contemporary (online)
Embassy, curated by TBA collective, St Mary’s Works, Norwich, UK
In Touch, Embassy Gallery, commissioned series, Edinburgh
Residencies and Awards
2023
Sanctuary Slimane residency, Morocco
GIRLPOWER residency, Aquitaine, France
2022
Hope Scott Trust, visual artist grant
VACMA, emerging artist bursary
