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Rebecca Birch is Lecturer (Teaching) in Creative Arts and Humanities Moving Image Practice at UCL and is an artist, film maker and researcher. Prior to joining UCL she was Visiting Scholar at Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, University of Oslo and Lecturer in Fine Art at Lancaster University.
Rebecca makes films, installations and narrative performance in physical and online spaces. She employs these approaches to tell the stories of place-based encounters between people and ecosystems, and the corresponding entanglements of human and environmental timescales. Her recent project, Undermine focused upon a community of women protesting against fracking in Lancashire, UK, and was developed with the cooperation of the local protectors, many of them older women, who were engaging in political action for the first time in their lives. Project outputs included a feature-length documentary, and associated installations and performances.
Rebecca is the is the co-founder with Jen Southern (Lancaster University) and Sarah Casey (Lancaster University) of the Rocky Climates practice as research network and was previously co-director with Rob Smith of Field Broadcast, the ground-breaking artists’ live broadcast platform. She has had solo exhibitions at venues including Waino Aaltonen Museum, Finland (2019), and The Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK (2018), ICA London (2005). Her work has been supported by Arts Council England, Kulturrådet (Arts Council of Norway), Outset, Film London Artists Moving Image, and OCA (Norway).
Teaching
Rebecca is module convenor for BASC0062 Making Moving Images I: Introduction to Practice
