Rachel Lowe
Rachel Lowe is an artist whose work combines more traditional media such as drawing and painting, with video, super 8 film, photography and slide projections. She studied at Newcastle College of Arts and Technologies (1985-6) and Camberwell and Chelsea Colleges of Art (1987-90, and 1992-3). In 1997-8 she was the Wingate Artist in Residence at Southampton City Art Gallery and in 1999 she was joint winner of the Olay Vision Award for Women Artists. She exhibited in Becks Future 2002 and was the recipient of a Delfina Studio Award 2002-2004.
The Arrival of Louis-Philippe 1844
Having tried to pick one drawing, I chose three. Narrowing it down, I decided to try and combine two drawings which, despite sharing a subject matter, use very different means of depiction. One drawing is small, detailed and representational, the other more expansive and seems strangely contemporary, in that the marks make sense either way up.
By merging the two, the feeling of movement and fluidity of the original drawings becomes evident. In my finished drawing, I attempted to lose the boundaries; one flows into the other and the representational "vignette" appears to be floating in a sea of abstraction.