Working internationally, Rachel is an interdisciplinary artist whose visual and performance art 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.
Proud to call Atlanta her home, she is currently Lead Artist and Curator for “The City is a Circle” with Art on the Atlanta BeltLine, a series of public events and a book of visual reflections and performance scores interrogating the relationship between wildness and urban development. Maintaining an international scope of work, she is also the Inaugural Artist in Residence with Vlerick Business School in Belgium, where she is using collaborative papermaking, textiles and public drawing processes to work with the research community to develop fluency with multi-sensory listening practices.
Following on from a recent public art commission from Flux Projects to create Emergence, a series of public monuments marking the headwaters of waterways that flow underneath the heart of Atlanta’s downtown area, Rachel is currently developing a new project entitled Atlanta to the Atlantic, in collaboration with Sarah Cameron Sunde, exploring the South River, one of the nation’s most endangered waterways. She was also recently Spillways Fellow at Antenna in New Orleans where she is conducting research for “No Man’s Land,” a series of performance, sculptural and text based public artworks exploring the intersection of women, liberation and land through the lens of four of her female ancestors.
RACHEL PARISH 