REBECCA HOSSACK GALLERY
Rebecca Hossack Gallery was founded in March 1988 in Windmill Street, London by Australian born Rebecca Hossack. Rebecca Hossack was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1955 and came to England in the early 1980s and, following a degrees in Law and in History of Art, Hossack studied at Christie's and at The Guggenheim in Venice, before she set up her own gallery. In 2007 she moved the main London gallery to a three-storey building in 2a Conway Street, off Fitzroy Square, while keeping a second space at nearby 28 Charlotte Street. Rebecca Hossack has been a champion of Non-Western artistic traditions and was the first art gallery in Europe to exhibit Australian aboriginal painting, and it continues to promote such work through its regular Songlines seasons. Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery also exhibits across the broad spectrum of Western Contemporary Art, while moving against some of the dominant currents of the modern art scene. Through the work of painters such as Dutch born Carla Kranendonk (1961-), David Malcolm Whitaker (1939-2007) and Spanish artist Mersuka Dopazo. The gallery celebrates and promotes inclusiveness, individuality, spirit, innovation, technical accomplishment, and beauty. It has worked on exhibitions with the British Museum, the Bristol City Art Gallery, the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate, the Horniman Museum, London, Leicester City Gallery, and the De Young Museum, San Francisco. Suffolk artists who have exhibited at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery include Jamie Boyd and Helen Napper.