.....exploring relationships between sex, gender, technology and systems of power. With a background in the tech indusry and cabninet making, Ara designs, fabricates and programmes the work herself an low budget.
"In terms of art, ideas, making and ambition, Ara is the real deal" V&A Curator. (Her work was recently aquired by the V&A Museum, London)
IMAGE L: Dissent Module Landing at Les Platons Radome 2023, part of show No Place Like Home, ArtHouse Jersey
RACHEL ARA (b. 1965 Jersey) 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 Triennial, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2018) . Solo presentations: “Dissent Module, 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), CCA Summer Show Winner (2022), TP Film Festival Winner (2022). 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.
2023/4
Edited Highlights
- Imaginary Real, CCA Galleries International, 26.04.24 - 17.05.24
- Serendipity, CCA Galleries International, 24.11.23 - 22.12.2023
- "No Place Like Home", Capitol House Gallery, Jersey, 15.09.2023 - 20.10.2023
- RA Summer Show, Royal Academy, London, 13.06.2023 - 20.08.2023
- Culture Tensions, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland, 23.11.2022
- Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, 02.11.2022 - 06.11.2022
- FiLiA Merch, Cardiff, 22.10.2022 - 24.10.2022
- ArtHouse Jersey R&D Residency, Jersey, 27.09.2022 - 30.02.2022
- Creative Conversations, St Helier Library, TALK, 12.09.2022
- CCA Summer Show, CCA Galleries, Jersey - WINNER, 17.06.2022 - 16.07.2022
- Thirteenth Parish Film Festival, Jersey - WINNER, 12.05.2022 - 15.05.2022
The Parable of the Leaf Blower, 2022 - Winner TPFF 2022 (Film Festival)
Seeking Comfort in an Uncomfortable Housing Market, 2022
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"This Much I'm Worth" UK - now on display in London till 2024
"This Much I'm Worth" (the self evaluating artwork) - UK Version is back on display at a London Gallery (Email for Location)
