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Qualifications
Master of Fine Art with Distinction West Dean College of Art & Conservation
2026
Graduate Diploma Fine Art West Dean College of Art & Conservation
2024
Post Graduate Certificate in Education + Qualified Teacher Status University of Brighton
2008
BA Hons Social Anthropology with African & Asian Studies University of Sussex
2003
Work & Exhibitions
Upcoming…
Rekha is a proud member of The Madre Project, where she inhabits a shared studio as a ‘Resident Mother’.
Through workshops and events, The Madre Project holds space for creativity, conversation, and community in all its forms.
If would would like to visit Rekha in her studio, please email rekha@rekhagodbole.com or message on Instagram @rekhagodboleartist
To find our more about the project click the link below:
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24 - 25 Oct 2026
Neither Here Nor There
The Madre Project, 30 Teville Road, Worthing, BN11 1UG
Solo Exhibition and Open Studios
Light, film and sound installation, featuring poetry by Hannah Allies @hannahallieswriter and part of Weird Worthing Folk Fringe @weird.worthing.folk.fringe
28 Aug - 20 Sept 2026
Haarlem Artspace Gallery, The Red Lion, Market Place, Wirksworth. DE4 4ET
Graphite & Charcoal on Paper 900 × 1250mm
16 - 19 July 2026
WD Bloomsbury Summer Show
MFA Graduate Summer Show
Dilke House, 1 Malet Street, London, WC1E 7JN
Things Reappear (20260
3 - 10 July 2026
West Dean Summer Show
West Dean College of Art & Conservation The Sussex Barn, West Dean, Chichester PO18 0QZ
Installation Glass & Sound
MFA Graduate Summer Show. Co-curated and includes, Things Reappear, installation in glass & sound (2026)
Nominated for the West Dean Trustee’s Prize 2026
13 - 16 May 2026
Where Craft Lives
Group show
It Was All in Her Head, terracotta sculpture (2024)
London Craft Week 2026
West Dean Showcase Dilke House, 1 Malet Street, London, WC1E 7JN
16 - 20 July 2025
Soft Ground
Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London, SE15 3SN
MFA Interim group show featuring, I Thought I’d Know You in These Pages, animated film (2025)
4 - 11 July 2025
Soft Ground
West Dean College of Art & Conservation Summer Show, Chichester, PO18 0QZ
MFA Interim Summer Show
2 July 2025
Crafts, Camera, Culture Film Festival, Rajasthan International Centre, Jaipur, India.
Selected as part of the Centre of Integrative Studies Film Sessions at Michigan State University in December 2025
Documentary film project showcase, in collaboration with Michigan State University & The Indian Institute of Craft & Design
5 Feb 2025
The Old Dining Room at West Dean College of Art & Conservation, Chichester, PO18 0QZ
Animated film, projection and sound installation, based on the Edward James novel, The Gardener Who Saw God (1937), part of the MFA pop-up exhibition Fragments & Echoes
17 - 21 July 2024
Hot Border
Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London, SE15 3SN
Graduate Diploma Fine Art group show featuring, Ganga, Installation: sound, film, etched steel plate & copper ‘lota’ pots (2024)
3 - 5 July 2024
West Dean Summer Show
West Dean College of Art & Conservation, Chichester, PO18 0QZ
Graduate Diploma Fine Art group show
5 February 2024
The Glasshouse; Materials of the Artist
The Old Dairy, West Dean College of Art & Conservation, Chichester, PO18 0QZ
Co-curated group show for the Graduate Diploma pop-up exhibition, featuring Prohibeo Hominis (Ethelochoric: nonnative species) Cat. No: J338966-170140 (2024) Sculpture and light projection installation
Employment
Since 2008
Teacher
Fully qualified with QTS, Rekha has designed and delivered high quality curriculums and taught across EYFS, KS1, KS2 & KS3, in both state and independent schools. Engaging pupils with creative learning experiences, instilling curiosity, independence, resilience, compassion and a love of life-long learning, she achieved an ‘Outstanding’ OFSTED lesson grading and consistently maintains high professional standards.
She has led teams in coordinating and resourcing Music, Modern Foreign Languages and English curriculums across whole-school settings, conducted lesson observations and participated in assessment and moderation exercises. She is passionate about developing and sharing strategies for effective pedagogy.
Rekha has worked with vulnerable children, young people and adults in therapeutic settings, children with behavioural and emotional needs, those with neurodiversity and complex learning needs and holds up-to-date Safeguarding training and DBS check.
Since 2021
Community Project Worker & Volunteer
Rekha has worked as a volunteer and project worker in various community-based projects in her hometown. Working in a Community Arts Project, she assisted and facilitated art, music and drama groups for people with complex learning and health needs, enabling artistic expression and social engagement. In addition, she has worked as a voluntary art project facilitator for children and young people and their families experiencing bereavement and grief.
Other Qualifications & Accreditations
Yoga Alliance Accredited Yoga 200 Hours Teacher Training
Ongoing…
TES Safeguarding: Keeping Children Safe in Education Part. 1 & Annex B & TES Safeguarding: Child Protection Refresher
Sept 2025
Social Science Research as Documentary Filmmaking, Jaipur, India (Michigan State University & Indian Institute of Craft & Design)
July 2025
Certified Hypnotherapist: Rapid Transformational Therapy
July 2023
Counselling Skills Level 2, First Aid for Mental Health Levels 2 & 3
July 2022
British Gymnastics UKCC Level 1 Trampolining Coaching
Oct 2014