About

Rachel Worsley is an artist living in Sussex.

Graduated with a first, BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Northbrook MET, Worthing.

The mask for me is the symbol of the Pandemic and is a very divisive subject. In a hospital environment it is seen as pure and clean and a safety net to protect you from the virus but juxtaposed with a discarded mask on a pathway or car park and it is immediately seen as a disgusting and dirty throwaway object.

I have always been fascinated with collections of items, pattern and repetition, and like to use collected groupings of the items I am researching in my artwork. I am a multi-disciplinary artist and through my photography, collage, cyanotype and sculpture I have been collecting groups of found masks or using new masks and manipulating them in different ways, sometimes unidentifiable and unrecognisable or in its natural form which is very sculptural.

The mask is an under-valued object, saving many lives, we’ll never truly know how many. By changing their appearance I hope that you can see them as the valuable object that they are..

The mask is a phenomena that isn’t going away anytime soon, an item that we cannot be without, but so easily used and thrown away.

Recent Exhibitions/Experience

July 2021 Window display, 32 South Street, Worthing

June 2021 Antinomy Exhibition, Luna and the Lane, Worthing

June 2021 BA Fine Are Degree Show, Northbrook MET, Worthing

May 2021 21 Unlocked, Virtual Exhibition

April 2021 Corridor Gallery Exhibition, Northbrook MET, Worthing

Nov 2020 Photowork’s Biennale 2020, Denton Lounge, Worthing

2017- 2021 Various corridor exhibitions, Northbrook MET, Worthing

Publications

Jan 2020 Front Cover, Lindfield Life magazine January 2020 issue