Rebecca Ackroyd trained at Byam Shaw School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, both in London.
The Royal Academy has said of Ackroyd’s practice that it utilises ‘a diverse language of making that questions relationships between drawing, abstraction and figuration’.
In a 2016 interview with Vogue, Ackroyd discussed the role of drawing in her work, stating:
“The drawings began as a way to open up new spaces for narrative in my practice, as a method for working through ideas and freeing up my imagination beyond the physicality of a material process. Although my work might sprawl across different languages of making it feels very much within its own space and so I suppose it comes naturally and isn’t something I try to force.”
Ackroyd has received solo exhibitions in Germany (Berlin), Norway (Stavanger) and the United Kingdom (London). She has participated in international group exhibitions including those staged in France (Lyon) and Italy (Rome).