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ABOUT

Education

  • MA Fine Art, Distinction, also awarded the Owen Ridley Degree Show prize for top grade on the programme, University of Reading

  • BA Hons Fine Art, First Class, also awarded the Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence in the Visual and Performing Arts, University of Chichester

  • HE Diploma in Stitched Textiles, Distinction, East Berkshire College

  • C&G Level 4, Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector, Guildford College

  • City and Guilds, Part I & II Embroidery, Guildford College

Short Courses

  • CERAMICS, Intermediate Handbuilding, London Sculpture Workshop, Experimental Ceramics, City Lit, London, Colour in Ceramics Applications and Techniques, Richmond Adult Education Centre, Glaze Making Understanding Materials (Intermediate), Morley College, London

  • SCULPTURE, Casting and Sculpting in Jesmonite, Casting in Concrete and Plaster, Modelling and Sculpting in Wax, London Sculpture Workshop

  • PUPPETRY, Foundation and Ensemble, Little Angels Puppet Theatre, London

Exhibitions

  • Violent Bodies, Femanifesto, Ugly Duck, London, 2024

  • Soft Tissue: Feeling Through Precarious Times, Metroland Cultures, London, 2023

  • NewEver, Pheonix Centre, Brighton, 2023

  • Pigments of the Dark, Femanifesto, New River Studios, London, 2023

  • Interim MA Show, Openhands Openspace, Reading, 2023

  • Retrespect, Sweet 'Art, Art Bypass Gallery, London, 2022

  • Well, Well, Well, Leyden Gallery, London, 2022

  • The Absurd, Fubar Collective, The Crypt Gallery, London, 2021

  • The Playful Turn, Degrees of Freedom, Espacio Gallery, London, 2021

  • Key of Keys, The Wendy House Gallery, Online, 2021

  • States of Existence, Well Space, Hackney, London, 2019

  • Creature (Dis)comforts, Leyden Gallery, London, 2019

  • Touchy, Limehouse Town Hall, Poplar, London, 2019

  • Metamorphosis–Paramorphosis, Art Number 23, Caraffa Prison Gallery, Prešov and Koniaren Gallery, Trebišov, Slovakia, 2019

  • Crossing the Line, Adult Company, Ovalhouse Theatre, 2019

  • Rosina Godwin - Knitted Sculptures, Art House, Southampton,  2018

  • The Great Divide, OVADA Gallery, Oxford, 2018

  • Stuffed, K6 Gallery, Southampton, 2018

  • Take the Floor #6 - Monday Club, Chelsea Theatre, London, 2018

  • Anarchist Feminist Party, Ugly Duck, London, 2018

  • Nasty Women Liverpool, Constellations, Liverpool, 2018

  • Deep Trash Romance, Cuntemporary, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, London, 2018

  • Platform 16, Leyden Gallery, London, 2017

  • Liminal Boundaries, This is Not Art,  Brookmill Pub, Deptford, London, 2017

  • Nasty Women UK, Stour Space, London, 2017

  • Femfair, Sweet 'Art, Ugly Duck, London, 2017

Public Displays

  • DISPLAY, Colour is Life, Reading Station, Reading, 2023

  • COMMISSION, IQL Knitted Orchard, Endeavour Square, Stratford, London, 2022

Workshops

  • Experimental Knitting Workshop Series:- Material Adventures in Knitting, Felted Knitting, Knitted Sculpture, Knitting the Rainbow, Neon Knits, Knitting Imaginary Creatures, Sustainable Knitting, Decaying Structures in Knitting and Knitting in Narrative, Online, 2020 - present

  • Intestinal Knitting, Metroland Cultures, London, 2023

  • Knitting the Uncanny, Antiuniversity, Online, 2022

  • Feminist Knitting, Greenbelt Festival, Kettering, 2022

  • Darn for Yarn, Great Get Together, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, 2022

  • Experimental Knitting, Atlantic Institute, Online, 2022

  • Knitting Small Creatures, Get Living, East Village, Stratford, London, 2022

  • Knitting the Uncanny, Leyden Gallery, London, 2021

  • Intestinal Knitting, Antiuniversity, Online, 2021

  • Emotional Repair: The Art of Patching and Darning, The Salon, Untamed Artists, Online, 2021

  • Sustainable Knitting, Harrow Arts Centre, #HACFromHome series, 2020

  • Anti-Capitalist Knitting, Antiuniversity, Online, 2020

  • Project X: Experimental Knitting, King's College London, London, 2019

  • Messy Knitting, Making from the Mess  Conference (Technē), London, 2019

  • Feminist Knitting, Greenbelt Festival, Kettering, 2019

  • Sustainable Knits, Supernormal Festival, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, 2019

  • Creature (Dis)comforts,  Leyden Gallery, London, 2019

  • Touchy Textiles, Antiuniversity, Limehouse Town Hall, 2019

  • Experimental Knitting, Theatre Deli, London, 2018- 19

  • Sit-Stitch-Stuffed, Mutrend Lab, Southampton, 2018

  • Neon Knits, Let's Ride, Southampton, 2018

  • Body Bits Knits, Leyden Gallery, London, 2018

  • Creative Knitting Workshops,  Leyden Gallery, London, 2017-18

Conferences & Talks

  • TALK, Tree Jumpers and Textile Turds, Reading University Student Sustainability Summit, 2023

  • TALK, Material Adventures in Knitting, Online, De Beauvoir Women's Institute, 2020

  • CONFERENCE, Slits, Tits and Phallic Knits, Medium, London School of Mosaic, 2020 

  • CONFERENCE, Freudian Knits and Body Bits, In the Loop at 10,Winchester School of Art, 2018

  • TALK, The Unfinished Things Festival, The CentrE17 Theatre, Walthamstow, London, 2017 

Residencies

  • ArtHouse Jersey, Virtual Retreat, 2020

  • Threads Micro Residency, Ideas Test, Sittingbourne, Kent, 2018

  • Block_Chain>The Power of Two, online residency run by Chapel Arts Studio,  2018

Publications

  • Soft Core, Rebecca Orr, Self Publication, 2022

  • 105 Artists' Hands, Cally Trench, Peculiarity Press, 2021

  • Block _Chain>The Power of Two, Chapel Artists Studio, 2019

 

Blogs and Magazines

  • Knitting the Uncanny, Fleece to Fashion Blog, University of Glasgow, 2022

  • The Absurd, Mass, Online, 2021

  • Bodies, Itchy Spagetti Zine, 2020

  • Church Times Guide to Greenbelt, p21, 2019

  • Everyone’s Asking If I Am Okay, Icing Room publication, 2018

  • All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go blog, 2018

  • Day 82, 100 Days 100 Women blog, Henry Martin, 2018

  • Emboss Magazine, Women Artists, p26-29, 2017

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