Rebekah Kosonen Bide

Rebekah Kosonen Bide (b. Boorloo/Perth) is an artist working across sculpture, wearable forms, material research, and systems-based practice.

Her material research investigates how metal, casting, and sculptural process can record the trace of bodies, environments, and the forces that act on a material before, during, and after it has been formed. Her sculptural syntax combines lost-wax casting, electroforming, life-casting, traditional metalsmithing, CAD modelling, and vibrational deformation. Her interest lies in the cast object as a form of partial transmission, and in sculpture that both corrupts and holds what has passed without claiming to preserve it.

Her conceptual and research interests lie in new materialist and posthuman thought, feminist technoscience, situated knowledges, chronopolitics, and the relationships between material history, embodied systems, and forms of transmission. Across the work, she is interested in how bodies and materials register pressure, how inherited techniques carry memory, and how objects, tools, and systems become vessels for what is held, used, and transmitted.

Within her systems-based work, Kosonen Bide develops interfaces, infrastructures, and tools that treat unseen conditions as materials in their own right. These projects investigate how time, attention, capacity, ecology, and social life are structured, carried, and made legible through designed systems. Where the sculptural work treats metal as a material capable of recording the forces that act on it, the systems work extends this inquiry into temporal and organisational forms: making vessels for abstract conditions so they can be looked at, worked with, and inhabited otherwise.

Sculptural works have circulated through NADA Paris, SSENSE, Café Forgot, Basel Social Club, and Gucci Vault. Wearable work has been worn by Lady Gaga, Charli XCX, and Caroline Polachek, and developed in collaboration with Masha Popova and Dilara Fındıkoğlu. Press includes Vanity Fair, Vogue US, Vogue Australia, Vogue Singapore, Vogue Runway, Dazed, AnOther Magazine, The Face, i-D, Perfect, Re-Edition, Cultured, Russh, Document Journal, and 1 Granary.

Born in Boorloo/Perth, on the unceded land of the Wadjuk people of the Noongar Nation, Kosonen Bide studied Fine Art and History of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, graduating with First Class Honours, following a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Central Saint Martins. She lives and works between London and Australia.