Public Arts Consultancy.
Rachel is currently working as a freelance Associate for New Public, having acted as Project Manager for Artscape Management Ltd, specialising in public arts commissioning and creating strategic overarching perspectives for cultural and place-making programmes. Clients included: Greater London Authority, HS2, Wandsworth Borough Council and Cambridge City Council.
Fourth Plinth 2020: Heather Phillipson's 'THE END'
Image © Sara Heywood & Jane Watt, 'REFLECTIONS ON HOME'
Image © Sara Heywood & Jane Watt, 'REFLECTIONS ON HOME'
Image © Sara Heywood & Jane Watt, 'REFLECTIONS ON HOME'
Image © Patricia Mackinnon-Day, 'The Calling Sheds'
Design vision for Old Oak Common
Selected Projects.
2020 Fourth Plinth: The End, London
HS2 Public Art Advisory, Phase One route, UK
Tate Exchange Liverpool Residency: The Calling Sheds multi-media installation and public programme of events
Old Oak Common: Arts and Culture Strategy, London
Darwin Green, Cambridge: Gateways and Mapping series of monumental sculptures
Alton Estate Regeneration, London: Reflections on Home Soundscape; Cultural Strategy
Rachel has acted as a curator and project manager of ambitious artist residencies, temporary installations and permanent monumental sculptures in the public realm. For examples: she played a key role in commissioning the artist Jessica Lloyd Jones for a series of landmark sculptures in Cambridge’s Darwin Green development; successfully proposed and secured funding for The Calling Sheds, a Tate Exchange Liverpool Residency tracing the lived experiences of four women shepherds in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales through audiovisual media linking the cosmopolitan museum to rural farm contexts; and managed the Alton Estate Reflections on Home Soundscape of interactive sculpture, performance and a digital app.
As in her curatorial practice, Rachel focusses on providing a platform for unheard voices and unseen perspectives reflecting the sights, sounds and textures of a community or place.