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Rachel Thomson is a London-based visual artist working with analogue photographic and printing techniques predominantly photogram. Her work is playful and surreal exploiting the optical tricks of light, shadow and translucence to create ambiguous one off apotropaic images out of found objects, such as horseshoe crab carapaces, plastic bags and broken electric fans. The results both real and imaginary acknowledge chance, mutability and inevitably the current environmental challenges we pose to the natural world. She studied photography & print media at Central St Martins (University of the Arts), London and exhibits with Bildhalle Gallery, Zurich/Amsterdam. Qualifications BA Hons Fine Art specializing in Photography & Print Media The London Institute Central St Martins College of Art and Design BA Hons English Literature, Queen Mary College, University of London Public Projects 2024 Tottenham Medusae Public Art Commission by Made By Tottenham with support of Haringey Council & The Mayor of London. The Beehive Grant to Individual Artist by Arts Council of England Haccamoirai Grant to Individual Artist by Arts Council of England Imbroglio Photolita Grant to Individual Artist by Arts Council of England Exhibitions 2026 Dream/Reality with FREM collective Flatwhite London W1F 0PT 2023/24 Coming to Light Bildhalle Gallery Stauffacherquai 56, Zurich Royal Society of Marine Artists Mall Galleries London Porous Light Espacio Gallery London 2022 Ocean Bildhalle Gallery Willemsparkweg 134H, Amsterdam Light Beguile Arkstar Gallery Holloway London 2021 Matérie et Lumiére Bodega Gallery, Hackney, London E5 Lost-Wax for Lost-Species The Worshipful Company of Founders of the City of London, Founder’s Hall, London 2020 Panoptica Milkbar, Bateman Street Soho, London E5 Collective Clapton Hart, London E5 2019 Wishlist Andelli Art Gallery, Wells, Somerset Athens Photo Festival Benaki Museum, Pireos 138 Athens The Universal Sea Gallery Old Arcade Chinatown Los Angeles 2018 SacreBleu! solo show for East London Photomonth, The Engine House, Walthamstow Wetlands, London ROUT a solo show for Womens History Month, The Old Baths, Hackney Wick, London Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition Mall Galleries, London The Universal Sea Grand Opening Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland The Universal Sea Touring Festival Budapest, Hungary hosted by Hybrid Art Management Berlin, Germany hosted by Entrepreneurship Summit Venice Italy, hosted by UNESCO, Palazzo Zorzi Barcelona, Spain, hosted by CCCB Amsterdam, Netherlands, hosted by We Make The City Festival Helsinki, Finland hosted by Demos Helsinki and Aalto University Pristina, Kosovo hosted by DOKU:TECH 2017 A Letter in Mind Gallery Oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, London Two of Us Placing it Out The Beehive Project, Swiss Cottage Library, London 2016 Surface and Light The Archive Gallery, The Mill Co Project, London Of the Sea The Historic Dockyard Chatham, Kent. UK Jellyfish Bloom commissioned installation for Nottingham City Council Light Night celebrations, UK 2015 Market Sundries Gardners 149 Commercial St, London Only Artists Love Junk Beedell Coram, 86 Commercial St, London 2014 Artcore International Art Festival Hotel Elephant Gallery, London Photogram Open Urmson & Burnett Gallery, Salisbury & Silverprint Gallery London Photogram Open Bristol Festival of Photography, UK 2013 Jellyfishsmack COS Artwalk, Hackney, London Ludlow Open The Harley Centre, Ludlow, UK Politi Showcase of Independent Bookbinders & Artists, Meanwhile Space, Stoke Newington, London 2012 Heliacal St Augustines Tower, Hackney London Darkroom Magic DoubleNegative, Hackney London Dol One Church Street Gallery, Gt Missenden Herts, UK Lightworks Wellspring Healthy Living Centre, Bristol, UK Analogue East The Dentist, Hackney London 2011 Print and Design Now Bearspace, Deptford, London PrintNow SW1 Gallery, London In Abundance Kestle Barton, Cornwall UK Photosensitive One Church Street Gallery, Gt Missenden, Bucks UK Quay Arts Open Exhibition The West Gallery, Isle of Wight UK 2010 The New English Art Club The Mall Galleries, London Ludlow Contemporary Art Summer Exhibition Ludlow College UK Photolita Five Hundred Dollars, Vyner St, London R & A Beedell Coram, Commercial St, London River Politi Arts Manor Rd, London 2009 Kungsgog Five Hundred Dollars, Vyner st, London Cyanotype Impressions Springfield Park, Hackney London Art and Insects Cube 3 Gallery University of Plymouth, UK Dogs n Frogs Chats Palace Hackney, London |