Rachel Page

Visible Songmaker/Photographic Artist

1956 Jackson Pollock dies, Art Tatum dies, Rachel Page born, Vancouver, Canada.

Rachel Page has been making songs for the past thirty years in Canada & Europe.

"Some people have said that my songs look like art, but having spent most of my creative life as a
singer songwriter I really know very little about visual art.
If songs are art, then art must be songs.

Biography

1956 Jackson Pollock dies, Art Tatum dies, Rachel Page born, Vancouver, Canada.
1959 London, England
1966 Present and survived Destruction in Art Symposium, London.
1967 Studied African drumming with Buster Bloodvessel (Ivor Cutler) Musical evenings with George Brecht and Robin on piano, vocals and beer, Leeds.
1968 Invited and attended Robin Page (father) performance Professor Protozoas Mini Majestic Bijou Road Show Yeah at
City of London Festival.
1969 Dishwasher-Daniel Spoerris Eat Art Restaurant, Dusseldorf, Germany. Met Robert Filliou.
1970 Lost balalaika in London, virginity in Paris.
1971 One-to-One master class with George Brecht, Cologne, Germany,
1973 Toronto, Canada.
1976 London, Ontario. Wrote first song.
1978 England.
Berlin
1979 London, Ontario.
Recorded first demo 1980 Performed opening sets for Ian Tamblyn, David Essig, Mae Moore, Willie P. Bennett.
Met guitarist extraordinaire Thomas Handy.
1982 Married someone else. A complex case of mistaken nonentity. University and local club performances
1985 Studied Music Production, Fanshawe College with Jack Richardson - straight As.
1987 Graduated College. Found well paying job as Flake Inspec...

Artspring “Best of 2011”, Salt Spring Island, B.C, Jan 1 - July 31, 2012
Salt Spring Gallery of Fine Art, "Visible Songs & Other Stories - solo- S.S. Island, B.C., Oct 14 - Oct 29, 2011
Artspring Gallery “Eclectic Visions II”, Salt Spring Island, B.C, June 24 - July 7, 2011
PhotoHaus Gallery “Eros” Vancouver, B.C., Feb 18 - Mar, 2011
Coast Collective Gallery “ Through The Lens II”, Colwood, B.C., Feb 17 - Mar 6, 2011
Artspring “The Elements”, Salt Spring Island, B.C., January 4 - 31st, 2011
Coast Collective Gallery “Abstractions”, Colwood, B.C., Sept 23 - Oct 10, 2010
Artspring Gallery “Eclectic Visions”, Salt Spring Island, B.C., May 2010
Mercer Performance Gallery “Visible Songs” - solo - S.S. Island, BC., May 2007