Professor Rebecca Fortnum

Biography

Rebecca Fortnum is an artist, writer and academic. She is currently Associate Dean of Research at Central St Martins, University of the Arts. She has been Professor of Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art, the Royal College of Art and Middlesex University as well as Visiting Research Fellow in Creative Arts at Merton College, Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute. Her books include Contemporary British Women Artists: In Their Own Words (2007), On Not Knowing: How Artists Think (2013) and A Companion to Contemporary Drawing (2020). She has exhibited paintings at Freud Museum, the Young V&A’s Museum, London and Compton Verney. Her solo show, Les Praticiennes exploring work by the women sculptors of the Paris Belle Epoque took place at the Henry Moore Institute in 2023.