Working internationally, Rachel is an interdisciplinary visual artist and theatre-maker whose work has been seen at venues including Tate Britain, de Young Museum, Lyric Hammersmith, Battersea Arts Centre, Woodruff Art Center, and Standpoint Gallery, as well as in public spaces such as train stations, community centers, homes for the elderly, in streets, schools and online.
Rachel’s social and conceptual practice researches how we exist in community with each other, where this “we” can be a person with themselves, specific groups of people, groups of ecologies, histories, or places. Her practice is rooted in deep listening and fostering dialogue, with the recognition that words are only one form of communication, and that conversation can and does happen across cultures, species, and time, in ways that we can engage and play with meaningfully and creatively.
Her collaborations regularly involve people from diverse sectors, including environmental activists, civic leaders, scientists, and negotiators. Having won 30 grants and awards for her work internationally, she has been an artist-in-residence at institutions including Duke University, Art on the Atlanta BeltLine, and Vlerick Business School in Belgium. She has recently finished a series of commissions from Flux Projects in which she created large-scale public artworks around Atlanta’s hidden waterways. Degrees include an MA in Practice-based Research from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and an MFA in Fine Art from California College of the Arts.
RACHEL PARISH 