Rebecca Hinton

Rebecca Hinton’s work has always had nature at its heart, exploring environmental and ecological concerns, with the intention of creating awareness and the preservation of the earth. This began with conceptual methods of representing nature and developed into producing multi-media installations that highlights different aspects of the planet’s current environmental crisis; dubbed the Anthropocene - the proposed name for our current era, where human’s impact on the earth has become the single force which drives change on the earth.

Her influences stems from the media or environmentally site-specific locations. This influence usually leads to research within the context of environmentalism; to then demonstrate that topic in the best media, often involving an element of chance and ephemerality in homage to nature. Working in a variety of mediums enables a diversity in her practise to occur, echoing natures diversity and it enables her to best demonstrate her desired message. Her artistic aim is to highlight our current environmental issue while hopefully causing the viewers to think and possibly change their habits for the better for their own health and for the health of the planet.

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Rebecca’s piece “Seeing the Details” (2020) is a body of work that began with experimentation into an immersive synthetic colour, light, and plastic installation, requiring public interaction and participation. However, since the outbreak of Covid-19 this installation has morphed into plans and models of what it would have been like. This body of work has influences from the climate change crisis, landscape photography, colour and light artists like Olafur Eliasson and Bruce Neuman’s Green Light corridor (1970) piece, colour theory, time and temporality, and abstract film/video art.