The 1970s - Faces and Spaces - Our Generation

Becky’s work evokes nostalgia for the glory and sadness of being young and that remembering being young matters.

She is a witness to the experiences of her generation and her work empowers older women.

She married at 18yrs in 1975 and had her first child when she was twenty.

Her work references the domestic standards expected from young mothers in 1970s while trying to maintain connected to a creative and visible life.

She has exhibited at The Royal Academy, South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, New York, Sheffield, Hereford, Brick Lane, Hackney, Teddington, Derbyshire and in the South West of England.

WRITING: VISITING ARTISTS: I am today’s visitor and we do not speak of childish things. He has become a resident writer in another orbit and I have become his caller; although welcome, the space shifts and shapes around the presence of more preferred visitors; patrons, lodgers and paying guests; the bill payer, the emissary, the trigger, the executor……….

POETRY:

..In our youth

We two lingered

in moonbeams,

gods in miniature,

sending out signals,

like satellites, radiating

in the diesel fumes and

wimpy burger fragrance,

mingling with his

dad’s Old Spice

and my mum’s Miss Dior.

He too, like me,

has smudged black kohl

along his eyes,

a little rebel act

on a school day night

and he was the braver,

being gay in 1973….

from Spaceflight- Nick’s Gift

‘Becky’s work is a bittersweet anthem to the Seventies, glam, rock music, religious dogma, and being female amongst the artists’ (Nick’s Gift)

‘Becky sees the world and everyday life, but she also sees the stars, the cosmos, the heavens’ (Robert Garnham)

‘Razor -sharp contemporary satire and humour in various shades of black’ (Paul A Green)

© Becky Nuttall