Her practice includes photography, casting, printmaking and sound work. She explores unnoticed aspects of our environment - initially through the practice of urban walking, bringing the everyday and overlooked to the gallery. During Lockdown she broadened this investigation through cold water swimming, and in doing so she captures instances of the multi-sensory experience of being in the sea and in nature to explore and map our external and internal journeys and consider how this impacts overall wellbeing.
Born in Watford 1965. Rachel graduated with a BA Hons in Fine Art Textiles from Moray School of Art in 2020 and was awarded the Grampian Hospital Arts Trust (GHAT) Degree Show Exhibition Prize (2021) and was selected for the Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries ( RSA NC) exhibition, Feb 2022.