Rebecca Whittemore is a visual photomedia artist whose practice centres on what is discarded, overlooked and forgotten. Working with everyday waste, she transforms organic remnants into images that draw attention to cycles of consumption, value and neglect. Originally from the United States, she now lives and works in Adelaide, Australia.
Whittemore holds a Master of Fine Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2026, she won the Julia Mannix Photography Prize and has been a finalist for the Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize for four consecutive years (2023–2026), as well as the Advertiser Contemporary Art Prize (SALA 2025). She has been shortlisted for the 2026 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize, with her work to be exhibited at Manly Art Gallery & Museum.
Her recent solo exhibition What the Kitchen Forgets at Gallery M was featured in InReview in June 2025, where writer Sarah Herrmann observed: “In a clever take on still life portraiture, artist Rebecca Whittemore magnifies the beauty of imperfection and age by transforming food waste into fine art at Gallery M.”