Statement
Wrack-line: A line of debris that is left on the shore by the receding tide.
My practice begins at the tideline, where I collect discarded material–some familiar, others strange and unplaceable–inviting us to look at the Earth with greater empathy.
As I collect, deconstruct, and weave these materials, my work explores how acts of transformation can mend our relationship to the environment and reframe what already exists. Each transformation becomes a small act of care that helps to quiet the anxiety of living in the Anthropocene.
Sustainability is embedded in both the materials I choose and the methods that I use. Walking the wrack-line becomes a visual journal, and weaving becomes my language. Each sculpture intertwines rope, fishing line, and other flotsam and jetsam into layered forms that hold traces of both beauty and consequence.
Bio
Rebecca McGee Tuck is a Massachusetts-based fiber artist, sculptor, and ocean activist. Her work transforms discarded materials collected from the shoreline into environmentally engaged sculptures that explore the relationship between humans and the natural world. Through weaving, coiling, and assemblage, Tuck creates visual narratives that highlight both the beauty and the consequence of what the ocean returns.
Her collaborative project with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Sculpture Monster: Creature from the Plasticine Era, was featured in Fiber Art Now magazine and received a Public Art Grant in 2024. Tuck’s work has been juried into exhibitions throughout the Northeast, including at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Fitchburg Art Museum, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Viridian Artists Gallery in New York City, and the St. Botolph Club in Boston.
She has been artist residencies at the New Bedford Whaling Historical National Park, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and the DNA Residency in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her ongoing series, Along the Wrack-Line, addresses the environmental impact of marine debris and plastic pollution along New England’s coastlines. Tuck is currently pursuing her MFA at Clark University.