Rachel has made work all of her life to translate aspects of experience escaping spoken language. Employing analogue and digital processes, she manipulates imagery to produce a foundational collage, a loose conceptual framework in which meaning can shift and emerge. Arbitrary collisions and content divested of context both liberate and disorientate. The collage is transferred to canvas and warped within Classical conventions of painting to reflect changing value systems. Rachel is interested in an image’s journey through time and space, in memory, hard drives or transmission over the Internet. Re-presenting signs and symbols, she highlights ambiguous origins and recirculated shorthand for fictive and historical narratives. Particularly important among her wide-ranging influences have been the writings of Agnes Martin, Adrian Piper, Hilton Als and Peggy Phelan, whose focus on the phantom female body also resonates in Rachel’s writing and curatorial practice.

Rachel exhibited with a group of ArtCan artists in Stockholm’s artist-run fair, SUPERMARKET, contributing a series of sound collages to the exhibitions Fabrication of Self and Holy Fluff in 2021 and 2022.

Past commissions have included New Britannia, a series of 10 paintings exploring British iconography, for 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.

Photos: Isabelle Young