Reba Maybury (born 1990),[1] is a British-Pakistani artist sometimes working under the name Mistress Rebecca. Her work explores the tension between her perceived strength as a figure of fantasy and how through the reality of sex work and gender she turns this power into something tangible. [2][3]

Reba Maybury
Born
Oxford, England
Education
Occupation
  • Artist
Years active2015–present
Websiterebamaybury.com

Maybury describes men as her medium and much of her art practice is physically created by her submissive’s through her direction, as a way to further the complicated imbalances of labour under sex work. Themes of capital, labour, power, sexuality, female perversion, bureaucracy as torture and humiliation are essential themes to her practice, where the medium of the work ranges from installation, painting, photogrpahy, writing and drawing.

Early life and education

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Maybury was born in Oxford in 1990[4] to a Pakistani mother and a Welsh father and has a younger sister.[5] She graduated in Fashion History and Theory in 2013 at the faculty of arts and design Central Saint Martins in London.[6]

Exhibitions

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Solo/duo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • SexKino Roland, NEXPO, Zürich, 2022
  • In the Company of, Eden Eden Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, 2022
  • The Puppet Show, Centre d’art Contemporain, Geneva, 2022
  • Isabella, Associazione Barriera, Turin, 2022
  • The Baroness, Mimosa House, London, 2022
  • sub/dominium curated by SoiL Thornton, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, 2021
  • Put A Sock In It!, Sophie Tappinier, Vienna, 2021
  • Exhibition For Your Apartment, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw, 2021
  • In Excess, 3hD, Power Play, Berlin, 2021
  • Witchhunt, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2020
  • The Monstrous Bouquet, Omstand, Arnhem, 2020
  • Do You Love Me?, P.P.O.W, New York, 2019
  • Paint, Also Known as Blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2019
  • I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker, ICA, London, 2019
  • Putting Out, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, 2018
  • Prick Up Your Ears!, Karma International, Los Angeles, 2018 [4]
  • Hardcore, Sadie Coles HQ, London, 2023

Bibliography

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  • Faster than an erection, with a poem by Cassandra Troyan. Wet Satin Press and MACRO, 2021.
  • BINTS! A Conversation Between Mistress Rebecca and the Elysium Harvester, Wet Satin Press, 2019
  • Dining with Humpty Dumpty, Wet Satin Press, 2017 and Arcadia Missa, 2019
  • The Goddess and the Worm, Wet Satin Press, 2015

References

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  1. ^ "A Basic HTML5 Template".
  2. ^ Jones, Jonathan (1 May 2019). "Kathy Acker review – a voyage to hell with the pirates of desire". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  3. ^ Toro, Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, Nick Scholl, David. "Dining with Reba Maybury". DIS Magazine. Retrieved 17 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ a b http://arcadiamissa.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/REBA-MAYBURY-CV.pdf Archived 20 September 2020 at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]
  5. ^ Nylander, Lynette (9 May 2017). "jess and reba maybury are fashion's favourite twisted sisters".
  6. ^ "Reba Maybury CV" (PDF). Arcadia Missa. Retrieved 25 February 2021.