22/08/2026
Rebecca Salter PRA is a British painter and printmaker and the current President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London—the first woman to hold the position in the institution’s history. Her practice has been profoundly shaped by the six years she spent living and working in Japan, where she studied traditional Japanese woodblock printing.
Paper occupies a central place in Salter’s work, not simply as a support but as a material in its own right. Working with ink, gouache and mixed media, she builds her compositions through delicate layers, repeated marks, punctures and subtle shifts between opacity and transparency. Pigment is often absorbed into the fibres of the paper rather than remaining on its surface, allowing image and material to become almost inseparable.
Characterised by restrained tonalities and an intricate dialogue between marked and unmarked space, Salter’s works hover between drawing, painting and printmaking. Their apparent simplicity reveals an exceptionally considered and tactile process: surfaces emerge gradually through repetition, layering and erasure, inviting a slower, more attentive way of looking. The influence of Japanese aesthetics is present not as quotation, but in her sensitivity to material, space, rhythm and the expressive potential of what is left untouched.
📍 **Currently on view in Salzburg**
Discover works by **Rebecca Salter PRA** in our current pop-up exhibition **WOMEN’S LINE**, presented by **Galerie Sturm & Schober** in Salzburg.
✦ **WOMEN’S LINE**
📅 On view through **29 August 2026**
📍 **Dompfarrsaal**
Kapitelplatz 7, 5020 Salzburg
We look forward to welcoming you in Salzburg!
1. 1800,2020 mixed media on paper, 26x22 cm
2. 1799, 2020, mixed media on paper, 26x22 cm
3. 1810, 2020, mixed media on paper, 17x16 cm
4. 1447, 2013, mixed media on paper, 20x25 cm
