England
lives between New York and Mexico
‘My art is a journey in the liminal space between scientific research and esoteric practice. Through this I have developed a symbolic language that intimately connects the internal with the cosmic and universal. My work is a multidisciplinary practice across painting, sculpture, video, performance, installation and holographic projection. The paintings are composed from natural substances, such as quartz, ash or rock powder pigment, that I have personally collected, hand ground, and applied to raw linen through a process of fine layering. They comprise a distinct language of geometric and symbolic forms that I have developed over many years that are both personal imaginaries and loose interpretations of propositions in quantum physics, such as M-theory and supersymmetry. Assimilating these theories with experiences I access through meditation informs their composition. My site-specific, ephemeral installations using nature as the medium, interweave these forms in relation to specific natural phenomena, their structure echoing the instability of form and the inevitability of change.’
Rachel Garrard was born in 1984 in Devon, England and currently lives between New York and Mexico. Garrard gained a BFA and MFA at Central Saint Martins, London. She has been awarded artist residencies at Casa Wabi, Oaxaca (2022), CCAndraxt, Mallorca (2022), the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, CT (2018) Yaddo, NY (2018) and Millay Colony, NY (2018), the Center for the Holographic Arts at Ohio State University (2012) and the Atacama Telescope Farm in Chile (2011). Her work has been exhibited at the Hammond Museum, NY (2019), Kraftwerk, Berlin (2017), Pioneer Works, NY (2016), the National Academy Museum, NY (2015), Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne, France (2015), Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City (2014), Eyebeam Art and Technology Center (2012), Participant Inc. (2010), Yota Space Digital Arts Festival, St Petersburg (2010), and ICA, London (2009).
