Rebecca Fortnum

Rebecca Fortnum is an artist, writer and academic, and is currently Head of the School of Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art. Her books include Contemporary British Women Artists, On Not Knowing: How Artists Think and A Companion to Contemporary Drawing. In 2019 she was elected Visiting Research Fellow in Creative Arts at Merton College, Oxford, where she developed her painting project, A Mind Weighted with Unpublished Matter. She is the 2021-22 Senior Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute working on Les Practiciennes, a project about the women sculptors in Rodin’s circle.