Rachel has made work all of her life to translate aspects of experience escaping spoken language.

Her painting practice uses analogue and digital processes. She manipulates found imagery by hand and in Photoshop, to produce a foundational composition.

The images share a loose conceptual framework in which meaning can shift and emerge. Arbitrary contrasts trigger a process of reconciliation, while content divested of context at once liberates and disorientates.

The work is inherently political in its free disengagement with and re-invention of content. Composite images are transferred to canvas and warped within Classical conventions of painting, to reference changing value systems.

Rachel is interested in an image’s trajectory and legacy—through memory, hard drives or in transmission over the Internet. By re-presenting signs and symbols, she highlights ambiguous origins and recirculated shorthand for fictive and historical narratives.

Important among her influences are Jacques Rancière, Heidegger and Peggy Phelan, whose writings on negation and the phantom female body also resonate in Rachel’s curatorial practice.

Rachel exhibits regularly as a member of ArtCan, supporting artists through a ‘no-commission’ sales structure. In fall 2020, she joined a group of ArtCan artists exhibiting in Stockholm’s artist-run fair, SUPERMARKET, contributing a series of sound collages to their Fabrication of Self exhibition in October 2021 and to their Holy Fluff exhibition in May 2022.

Past commissions include a series of 10 paintings exploring British iconography for New Britannia, an exhibition in London’s Roast restaurant, 2015 to 2016.

Rachel’s work is held in private collections in Europe and North America.

Please contact her for prices or new commissions.

Images:

“Deer in Headlights”, 2019
oil on canvas
150 x 120 cm (59 x 47 in)

“No Junk Promise”, 2018
oil on canvas
60 x 60 cm (23.6 x 23.6 in)

“To Be Free”, 2018
oil on canvas
60 x 60 cm (23.6 x 23.6 in)

“Milk”, 2018
oil on canvas
60 x 60 cm (23.6 x 23.6 in)