Exhibition

Rebecca Riess: Lossless

14 March - 7 June 2026
Tue, Wed and Sun: 10:00am – 5:00pm Thu, Fri and Sat: 10:00am – 10:00pm Mon: Closed
Free to all

Rebecca Riess invites you to explore this question through a bold and immersive series of otherworldly large-scale sculptures

Rebecca’s work reflects our emotional responses to the world around us – from the overload of digital life and technological waste, the growing ecological crisis, abuse of power, and the physical and emotional ways we experience these pressures internally.

Discover a series of paintings, installations, and abstract sculptures that hang, lean, and stretch across the gallery, inviting moments of curiosity and unease.

Explore sculptures made from fabrics, used plastics, chains, ropes, threads, safety pins, and cable ties.

Some sculptures hint at human or animal forms, often twisted or stretched in strange, contorted ways, while others evoke damaged and discarded objects, encouraging you to pay attention to how the art makes you feel, as much as what it makes you think.

Rebecca describes her paintings as “fictional spaces overlapping with reality and transient timelines”.

A highlight in the exhibition is the large-scale sculpture ‘The Cloud’ from Rebecca’s ‘Shapeshifter’ series.

The artwork responds to the online world, commenting on unseen waste generated by cloud data, transmission signals, and the ever-present electrical systems supporting our digital lives.

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