Becky Haughton
My practice is driven by interests in drawing, printmaking and the experience of landscape and memory. With collected drawing, images and snapshots as my subject matter I use repetitive mark making; composites; digital tools and the distinctive qualities of printmaking to make distilled or embellished versions of landscape. Software expands my range of mark making and etching and screen-print are processes with which I can easily integrate the digital and hand-made. I aim to allude to the fleeting visual moments experienced during journeys and holidays and how they might be recomposed by memory into something more remarkable or dreamlike.
Qualifications and training
2001 - BA (Hons) Fine Art (Drawing & Printmaking), University College Falmouth, Cornwall
Solo exhibitions
2023 - The Picture Room, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
2016 - The Picture Room, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
2014 - Memory Process, International Print Biennale, The Port of Tyne Gallery at The Customs House, Tyneside
Selected Group exhibitions
2023 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Woolwich Works, London
2023 - Project Babel, Ratamo Gallery, Finland
2022 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Woolwich Works, London
2022 - Imagine Falmouth, Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall
2021 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Woolwich Works, London
2021 - Awagami Factory International Miniature Print Exhibition, Tokushima, Japan
2019 - Imagine Falmouth, Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall
2019 - Solar Impressions, Southampton Arts Center, New York
2019 - 4th International Mini-Print Exhibition, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York
2018 - Found, Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall
2017 - Print Exhibition, Artmill Gallery, Plymouth
2016 - Press Gang (The Art of Printmaking), Penwith Gallery, St.Ives
2016 - Press Gang, Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall
2016 - Observations, Falmouth University Project Space, Cornwall
2015 - Manhattan Graphics Center, MiniaturePrint Exhibition, New York
2015 - National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2014 - Spring Exhibition, Penwith Gallery, St.Ives
2013 - Multiple Choice: Contemporary Prints and Editions from Private Collections in the North, Granary Gallery, Berwick
2012 - 8th British International Mini-Print, UK touring exhibition
2012 - Ascenders-Five Approaches to Printmaking, Back Lane West, Redruth
2011 - A4 Printmakers, Marc Gravers Gallery (touring to Exchange, Penzance in April 2011), Wharepuke, New Zealand
2011 - International Print Biennale, Northern Print, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2011 - Print!, The Exchange, Penzance
2011 - 7th International Mini-Print Exhibition (UK Touring Exhibition 2009-2011), Kirkby Gallery, Knowsley, Liverpool
2011 - This Impossibly Conjured World, Glove Box, Bristol
2010 - Prints-John Howard's Studio, Bedales Arts, Petersfield
2009 - Impress 09, Gloucestershire Printmaking Co-operative, Stroud
2009 - RWA Print Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Competitions, prizes and awards
2011 - shortlisted for Print Awards, International Print Biennale, NewcastleUpon Tyne
2010 - Special Prize - A4 Printmakers, Touring Exhibition, Penryn, Wharepuke, Penzance
2006 - shortlisted for Falmouth University Midas Projects Award