Rebecca Hossack Gallery

Rebecca Hossack was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1955. She came to England in the early 1980's to study for the bar in Lincoln’s Inn but abandoned the law for a career in Art. Having studied at Christie's and worked at the Guggenheim in Venice, she set up her own gallery – in Windmill Street, Fitzrovia – in March 1988. (She signed the lease on the premises in October 1987, only three days before the great stock-market crash on ‘Black Monday’). The gallery, despite the economic climate, not only survived but thrived. It has gained a reputation both for championing Aboriginal and non-Western art and for exhibiting contemporary ‘Western’ artists of rare individual vision. Hers was the first art gallery in Europe to exhibit Australian aboriginal painting, and it continues to promote such work through its regular Songlines seasons. The gallery’s ongoing success is a vindication of Hossack’s boldness, eye, energy and commitment. Hossack opened a second space in 1991 and a sculpture garden at St James’s, Piccadilly the following year. She is has moved the main gallery to a new three-storey building at 2a Conway Street, off Fitzroy Square, while keeping a second space at 28 Charlotte Street. The Gallery regularly collaborates with - and sells to - public galleries and institutions. It has worked on exhibitions with the British Museum, the Bristol City Art Gallery, the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate, the Horniman Museum, London, Leicester City Gallery, and the De Young Museum, San Francisco.