Art
My art practice involves storytelling via pastel and graphite drawings as well as working with audio. My work tells playful stories about my own background as well as collective cultural experiences through extensive research and process. I'm influenced by the unpredictability, temporal and allegorical nature of life and how personal history can help anchor us in time and space.

Storytelling in sound
Act as if the house is on fire
A piece for Future Cities, I cut up many parts of the original supplied track and processed them several times to create what started to sound like a very formidable battle march. I kept processing layer upon layer through various software and filters. The title is based on a quote from Greta Thunberg and also refers back to the anti-smoking march of the original piece.
The theme is London... why?
A commissioned sound piece for Sabrina Fuller's Love, Dinner, Flowers, Dances (Money, Work, Deadlines, Power) exhibition at Newington Gallery. I collaborated with Rivelino Lopes, we took a recorded conversation between us and created a sound exquisite corpse, each processing a version and handing back to the other over and over until we reached a point where we both felt the piece was complete.
Ratchet-faced old hag with a moustache
Accidental feminist statement whilst experimenting with MAXMSP and facial recognition. I was experimenting with Open Face and how I might change the volume of or trigger sound with proximity. I sampled some Carry On film snippets and triggered the sound when a face is close to the computer camera. I intend to experiment with this further.

Storytelling in pastel, graphite and ink
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Baba Yaga returns home - pastel and water on paper ©Rebekah Ford -
Ming dynasty figurine sketches at V&A - graphite sketch ©Rebekah Ford -
Life drawing - pastel and water on paper ©Rebekah Ford -
Raphael cartoon study - graphite sketch ©Rebekah Ford -
Eda Scheurer had one eye and smoked a pipe ©Rebekah Ford -
Life drawing using negative space - pencil on paper ©Rebekah Ford -
Shift MS vs MS commission - pencil on paper ©Rebekah Ford -
Life drawing - charcoal and pencil on paper ©Rebekah Ford -
Baba Yaga offers - pastel and water on paper ©Rebekah Ford -
Sketch at the hairdressers' window automaton of a barber hare - pencil on paper ©Rebekah Ford