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Rainforest Shower, acrylic on canvas, 75 × 50 cm, 2024

Becca Sebire

Art and Psychology

Large-scale, colourful paintings are at the centre of my practice. I have explored themes of migration, external and internal environments as well as the liminal intersections between them through painting on wood, canvas and walls in bright layers of acrylic. Incorporating domestic design from around the world I constructed life-size window frames and painted landscapes from around Europe within them. My final mural is a visualisation of migration between Latin America and the USA, using birds who are originally from Central/South America but have migrated into sections of Florida/California to symbolise people who have Latinx identity and the fundamental right of movement for both animals and people. This connection between human and bird migration was inspired by the work of Adham Faramawy and their film Proposal for a Parakeets Garden. I chose to do a mural because of the extensive history of muralism within Latin American history, particularly in the work of Diego Rivera, Orozco and even more contemporary artists such as Andrea Gómez.

Rainforest Shower (detail)
Lady from the Sea, set model, acrylic on wood, 100 × 40 × 40cm, 2024
Migration Windows, acrylic on wood, 122cm × 60cm, 2025
Migration Windows, acrylic on wood, 122cm × 60cm, 2025

Reading School of Art