Illustrations
Radix Textile designs 2024
Radix shows us root systems as a material and a bio fabric that the artist will continue to develop and manipulate as this research-led project continues. Rachel Rea is revealing the unseen world of full civilisations and organisms in the ground that we know so little about but inform our health and each stage of our lives.
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Creative Reactions Exploring the Human heart 2022
Heart Anatomy is a collaboration between the scientist Catrin Rutland and the artists Deborah Gardner, Jess Parry, Rachel Rea, 4 women of different routes, age, and backgrounds.
It was a Research commission that looked at an Os-cordis, which is a calcified bone that resides in the hearts of cows, sheep and now discovered in primates. Collaborating with Dr Catrin Rutland I wanted to find out exactly where the Os-cordis was in a heart and as such I wanted to create a piece that illustrated this. To do this I went and investigated a cows heart, viewer discretion is advised.
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Sensory Overload 2021
I wanted to address the symbiotic relationship between the dual paradigms of our online and offline lives. As society has evolved, so it has required increasingly open communication systems alongside freedom from conventional life, but at what cost?
As we look upon our companion devices, our constant technological sidekicks, we are transported to a realm of symbolism, advertisement, and peer pressure. Here, influencer culture is our lens.
Sensory Overload is designed to captivate the eye, drawing the viewer deeper into a vast ocean of cookies, data sharing, and most importantly a penetrating eye into an unseen trade.
Parts of the data protection law have been translated into a coding language and embedded into the holographic parts of the print.
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Leeds Piano Competition 2021
