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Rachel is a multi disciplinary artist

Rachel puts questions to the environments she encounters (mainly spaces in London but sometimes in the North East of England when train fares are low) and creates narratives that exist in the form of performance, intervention, text and writing.

Rachel is interested in the power play between written language, voice, tone and body gesture. They operate together and move into a natural hierarchy, like a separate living being evolving and shapeshifting as one pushes the other out of focus.

Her work develops often into stage directions, instructions, absurdist script writing and captioning. She is interested in speech acts and starter pack sentences; apologies; greetings cards; compliments; functions of language; the point where language dismantles itself and bites. She enjoys watching and pandering to the rules of theatre.

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Rachel is Programme Coordinator at hARTslane Gallery, and co-founder of GRAVEL (2022-23), an ongoing series of performance events. She is co-founder of HA! (2024), an alternative Fine Art MA Programme. She has performed in abandoned buildings, converted churches, roof tops, nightclubs and court rooms.

Rachel is co-founder of Conch Collective, a group of eight artists who experiment with live performance


Education

2017-2020
Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London
BA Fine Art: Painting

2015-2016
Cleveland College of Art and Design, Middlesbrough
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

2013-2015
SRC Bede Sixth Form
Advanced Level Studies





Exhibitions/events


2024
St Elmo's (hell) Fire, Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London, UK

LEG ROOM, The Art House, 30-36 Pritchards Road, London, UK
Thunder Falls, The Photobook Cafe, London, UK


2023
The Banquet, The Amersham Arms, London, UK
The Band Quit, hARTslane Gallery, London, UK
Molasses Vases, hARTslane Gallery, London, UK

Pit of the Water's Tongue, hARTslane Gallery, London, UK
G Spot 0 Zone, The Ivy House, London, UK
Cornerstones, hARTslane Gallery, London, UK

2022
If it was my trolley, hARTslane Gallery, London, UK

Reflections, Islington Arts Factory, London, UK
Psych Forms, The Glove That Fits, London, UK
Floor tat, hARTslane Gallery, London, UK

Bills, drills and thrills, hARTslane Gallery, UK
No, I don't want no scrub, hARTslane Gallery, London, UK



2021
I'm the cat, you're the fish. It's about the patriarchy. hARTslane Gallery, London, UK
Taking Shape, Espacio Gallery, London, UK
There's water in the brickwork, Marcel. Deptford X festival, London, UK
Movingharts, hARTslane Gallery, London, UK

Good Press: The Paper, April edition
1:4 Virtual Exhibition, Wetdovetail gallery
Visiting lecturer, Camberwell College of Arts, broadcast from Teesside, UK

2020
I WAS HOPING THIS WOULD HAPPEN, broadcast from London UK
Run off the mill, instagram live, broadcast from London UK
PENULTIMATUM, Copeland Gallery, London, UK
BAD PAINTING, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK
Corridor, Wimbledon College of Arts, London, UK

2019 
BURN THE WITCH, Safehouse 1, Peckham, London, UK
Angela Willament has Six Toes, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK
Terra Incognita, The Amersham Arms, London UK
Late At Chelsea, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
She Grrrowls, The Poetry Cafe, London, UK
Afterbath, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK
The Mystery Toothbrush Jamboree, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK


2018
The Root Vegetable Petting Zoo, The Poetry Cafe, London, UK
Traces, Central St Martins SU Project Space, London, UK
Stock Up On Air, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
Under The Sheets, Deptford Does Art, London, UK

 
 

Contact


rachel-lonsdale@hotmail.co.uk
 





 

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