Rups Cregeen Surrey, United Kingdom

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Rups Cregeen's work is concerned with coastal geography: tides, sea states and weather and often focuses on immersion and exposure to water and the elements. The work explores human place in the world and is often site-specific work or performative. Outcomes are often three-dimensional, with great interest in the composition and curation of multiple situations or experiences in time and weather.

Predominantly a painter, searching for a balance between control and gesture. Rups's work centres on painting, but also explores three dimensional work, site specific work, performative work. She looks at human place in the world as a point of reference.

Rups has graduated from UCA, Farnham with a FIRST in a BA Hons in Fine Art. She has been awarded a scholarship to study an MA at UCA, Farnham. She is mentored by artist, Danny Rolph, through his Sedici programme of 16 selected artists. She has exhibited often in London, Jersey, Middlesborough, Ireland and Surrey.