Rebekah McVitie is an artist whose work is rooted in history, transformation, and sustainability.

Based along a coastline once dominated by heavy industry, she collects discarded glass remnants from local beaches - fragments of the past left behind by factories, shipyards, and domestic life. These pieces, often overlooked as waste, are given a new life through the process of lampworking, a meticulous method of shaping molten glass into delicate, expressive beads.

Each bead holds a story - of material, of place, of reuse. The industrial past of the region is preserved and reimagined in every piece, connecting contemporary craft with a layered, often forgotten history. By reusing what is essentially rubbish, Rebekah challenges ideas of value and permanence, creating beauty from what was abandoned.