I work part-time as a janitor and in the night make my artwork and films. This means I have total creative freedom - unfortunately when you're work is pretty bonkers and/or feminist political - it doesn't pay the bills but I'm happy!
For the last decade, I've been working on large sculptures and digital artworks - all handbuild and programmed myself from my eclectic background in programming and cabinet making and had my fair share of success in the art world. During Covid, I lost my studio so I don't have the space to build large stuff anymore. I'm now rediscovering animation - projects that I can make on my kitchen table!
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Rachel graduated with a Fine Art BA from Goldsmiths College, London, where she won the prestigious Burston award. In 2016 she won the International Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 for “This Much I’m Worth”, the self-evaluating artwork. Her work is nonconformist with a socio-political edge that often incorporates humour and irony with feminist & queer concerns.
RACHEL ARA (b. 1965 London, UK) studied BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths (1994–97); . Selected groups exhibitions include: Vertiginous Data, MMCA (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Seoul, S.Korea (2019); London Design Festival, V&A, London (2019); Vienna Biennale, The MAK, Vienna (2019); London Open 2018 Triannual, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2018) . Solo presentations: “Dissent Module (Escape from Semiramis)”, UCL / Slade, London, UK (2020); “Transubstantiation of Knowledge”, V&A, London, UK (2018); *“American Beauty (A Trump L'Oeil)”, Barbican Centre, London, UK (2018); . Recent prizes include: International Aesthetica Art Prize, First Prize (2016), the coLAB “Women Make Sculpture commission” (2019) and Awards from the Arts Council (2019 / 2020). Recent Publications: 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow, Thames & Hudson (2019), 50 Women Sculptors, Aurora, (2020), She lives and works in London / Jersey.
College
Goldsmiths
BA Fine Art
19941997
Birth Date
August 29
Birth City
Jersey, Channel Islands
Current City
London
Ethnicity
Spanish / Jersey
I work part-time as a janitor and in the night make my artwork and films. This means I have total creative freedom - unfortunately when you're work is pretty bonkers and/or feminist political - it doesn't pay the bills but I'm happy!
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