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Rebecca Strain

On 2 April 2026 by

I was born on the day Bobby Sands died of hunger strike for civil rights in Northern Ireland. I
was brought up both in rural Donegal and in a council estate in Dublin city. I attended
Limavady College of Art a year after the Omagh bomb. I went on to study in England at
University of Huddersfield where I presented my degree show, shortly after the USA
declared a war on terror. After working in community and participatory arts in Yorkshire and
traveling to Estonia on regular artist residencies I moved to Dorset to complete an MA in
Fine Art.
I returned to Ireland when Derry was the City of Culture since then been making
performance art in public on a weekly basis with BBDB. I have made live art in Belfast,
Bergen, Berlin, Bournemouth, Derry, Donegal, Tallinn, Umea, and Yinchuan. My work is
deeply informed by a history woven with conflict, resilience, and the quiet strength found in
everyday survival.

Photo Above: Barriers As Support for Collapsable Humans [photo credit Anja Ibsch]

Photo below (left): Pull Back Military Green [photo credit Martha McCulloch]

Photo below (right): As Far As I Can See [photo credit Bronagh Lawson]