Rachel Williams

I make bold, quirky and apparently playful works often carry a brooding gritty undertone. By employing an agglomeration of printmaking, painting, collage, stitching onto a variety of surfaces my work is a lively regurgitation of current obsessions. My most recent output follows on from works concerning the vulnerability of existence in the natural world to the “Museumification” of artefacts, relics and taxidermy where the loss of original context renders the pieces nebulous and solitary. I am heavily influenced by iconography and the primitive depiction of the cave paintings of Lascaux and Australia
For me making work is all about fear. It’s fear that draws me back to printing as a way of making marks and never more so than when I’m making mono prints. The sensation as I draw back the paper/cloth or whatever is thrilling and in that moment it is almost as if the work is made by someone else and I can see it clearly and where I am to go with it. It has pervaded all my work this “transference” from one surface to another.

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2022 – Winter Group Show – (Group) –Linden Hall Studio – Deal

2022 – Unnatural Selection – (Solo) – The Crown – Hastings

2022 – Man V Machine – (Group) – Bare Bone Gallery – Hastings

2022 – Etherworld – (Joint) – Twelve Hundred Postcards – Hastings

2022 – Shadowlands – (Group) – ESPS – St Leonards-on Sea

2021 – Tree Of Life (Group) – ESPS – St Leonards-on Sea

2021 – Imprint (Group) – Kellie Miller Arts– Brighton

2020 – Collage à Trois (Group) – The Dirty Old Gallery– Hastings

2020 - The Vault – Rye Bank Gallery - Rye

2019 – Solaris Summer show (Group) – Solaris Print – St Leonards on Sea

2018 - Repeat After Me (Curator/ exhibitor, Group) – ESPS – St Leonards-on Sea

2018 - Dreaming in Colour – (Group) Kellie Miller Gallery – Brighton

2017 - Beware of Dogs (solo)– Trevi, Italy

2017 - Rhythms – (Group) – Kellie Miller Gallery – Brighton

2016 - Transitare, Interpretare – (solo) Galleria Grefti - Umbertide – Italy

2016 Questo non Quello (solo)- The Temporary Gallery, Trevi, Italy

2016 - Arte Padova – Art Fair – Pavoda – Italy

2015 - Crocevia (solo)– The Temporary Gallery, Trevi, Italy