Qualifications
EAVE (European Audio Visual Entrepreneurs) Graduate
MA Design & Digital Media/Media Arts
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Solo Exhibitions
• Today. Tomorrow & Somewhere In-Between, Exhibition, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, 2021
Selected Group Exhibitions
• Society of Scottish Artists 125th Annual Exhibition, MacLauren Galleries, Ayr, November 2023
• How Places Feel: Riley Square, as part of Digital Spaces Presents exhibition. The Space, Arts Council England, BFI, 2022
• Zersetzung: a Quantum Poem for Generation Z, Video installation by Georgiou & Tolley. Commissioned for Coventry, UK City of Culture 2021. Shown as part of HYPER-POSSIBLE, Coventry Biennial 2021
• Twin Stranger: Entangled State Duratran LightBox, Two Channel Audio/Visual Installation, Site Specific Sound by Georgiou & Tolley. Shown as part of Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art,'The Twin', 2019
• Magician: Walking Back the Cat Photo-artworks/Sound/AV. Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) as part of the Entity of Spatial Existence exhibition, Gilman Barracks, Singapore, 2018
• Green Note (C 527.35 hz) Colour, Sound, Frequency. Exhibited as part of Green Design Project group show, Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, 2018
• Magician Walks into the Laboratory Sound/Image Installation by Georgiou & Tolley. Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2017
• Culture Shifts: Local Exhibition. Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. Photo-artworks/AV. (Oct 5-Dec 22), 2017
• MEME/ME22 Photo artworks, Video installation, by Georgiou & Tolley. Part of Creative Challenge group exhibition, Bonsang Cultural Centre, Daegu, South Korea, 2017
• Relic reactive sound/moving image installation/performance (Rebekah Tolley, Martin Adam, Leith Slater), Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2005
• Spirit of the Staithes exhibition in collaboration with artist, Simon Packard. Large-scale photo-artworks, 18-metre digital collage. Opened by HRH Princess Royal, Blyth 2003
Collections
Rebekah's solo work is held in private collections in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, India and France
Residencies
• Digital Spaces - Artist in Residence How Places Feel: Riley Square. In association with Coventry Libraries, supported by The Space, with funding from Arts Council England and the BFI, 2022
• Bit.Bio (Cambridge) Artist in Residence/Art Curation, 2021
• Hugo Burge Foundation and Borders Art Fair Artist in Residence, Marchmont House, 2021
• Stryx Peep Residency (Arts Council England), 2020
• Culture Shifts: Local: collaboratively produced photography from eight socially engaged photography projects across Liverpool. Her residency was in collaboration with residents of Granby Four Streets (site of the Turner prize-winning Assemble project), culminating in The World Lived Here, commissioned by Open Eye Gallery Liverpool, 2016-18
Selected Awards & Commissions
• Winner of the 'Past Presidents Award 2023' for 'SottoVoce', mixed-media artwork made in collaboration with artist, Gill Walton. Exhibited at the Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, 2023
• Digital Spaces - How Places Feel: Riley Square, nominated for Digital Culture Network's, Digital Content Award, 2023
• Hinterland: Renegotiating the Archive: Sound & Picture Poems (ongoing Text / Image / Audiovisual artworks) for Slanguages, commissioned as part of the Creative Multilingualism Project led by Professor Rajinder Dudrah, Birmingham City University, AHRC project hosted by University of Oxford, 2020
• Okhwan's Mission Impossible (UK/Slovakia 2016) Feature Documentary. Director: Marek Makovic. Creative Producer: Rebekah Tolley. Executive Producer: Kevin MacDonald. Winner of Best Feature Film and Festival Audience Award, Rueda Film Festival, Barcelona, 2017
• We Went to War (UK/IRL 2012) Feature documentary. Creative Producer/Co-author, Rebekah Tolley. Director/Co-author, Michael Grigsby. Commissioned by Channel 4 for Film4. Nominated for the Sheffield DocFest Innovation Award, 2012 and Best World Documentary at several international festivals. Special screenings at the Museum of Modern Art, (MoMA New York), ICA, London, and BAFTA Cymru. A Sunday Times and BFI Sight & Sound International, Film of the Week.
Other
• Curator for SSA THREADS exhibition at Old Gala House, Scotland, 2024
• Society of Scottish Artists (SSA), Satellite Co-ordinator (Scottish Borders)
• Member of the (Society of Scottish Artists) SSA 125th Annual Exhibition Hanging & Arranging Committee 2023
• Member of CEDIA (Centre for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts) Steering Group, Birmingham City University (2021-2023)
• Jury member/awards presenter for the Learning on Screen Awards for the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) 2018-present