Rebecca Chesney is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is concerned with the politics of landscape, looking at economics and wealth, social issues and justice, and the impact these have on natural ecologies and people. She uses many methods to gather information: visiting archives, utilising open source data, talking to community members and documenting flora and fauna through sound, video and drawing, with the results taking the form of installations, interventions, maps, and creating large scale living sculptures in the landscape.

Recent commissions include Hospitalfield, Scotland (2025); Harewood Biennial (2024), in collaboration with the British Textile Biennial (2023); Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset (2023); HOME, Manchester (2023); Super Slow Way, east Lancashire (2022); and TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien, Austria (2021). She was Visiting Artist at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2021). Her awards include a Lucas Artist Fellowship at Montalvo, California, USA (2016-18); a Henry Moore Foundation Award (2025); and her work was recently acquired for the UK Government Art Collection.

Gavin Renshaw is a visual artist based in Preston, UK. He creates large-scale mural works that engage directly with local histories, urban landscapes and socio-industrial narratives. His practice is part research-driven, part invention- incorporating archival materials and a foundation of preparatory drawings, which inform his long-term projects and thematic collections.

Renshaw's work has been commissioned by organisations such as Super Slow Way (2024), London Mural Festival (2024), Multistories Festival (Southampton, 2024), UPFest Bristol (2022), The Courtauld Institute (2022), Shetland Arts (2021) and the Ribble Steam Museum (2021). In 2024, he completed a residency at Quinta Dos Canais in Portugal. His work was also recently acquired for the permanent collection of the Harris Museum and Art Gallery (2025).

The artist-in-residence stay of Rebecca Chesney and Gavin Renshaw in Krems is taking place in cooperation with TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien and curator Georg Weckwerth.

Citizenship: United Kingdom
Residence: Session 1 (12.01.-15.02.2026)