Rachel Howard

Rachel Howard is a British painter, whose works are held in public collections worldwide including, Arts Council Collection, London, UK, Auckland Art Museum, USA, Imperial War, Museum, London, UK, Jerwood Collection, UK, Pallant House, UK, Pio Monte Della Misericordia, Naples, IT, amongst others . Solo Museum displays include, MASSMoCA, Massachusetts, USA, Newport Street Gallery, London, UK, MACRO Testaccio, Rome, Italy, Hastings Contemporary, UK, Museo MADRE, Naples, Ital and Bohen Foundation, NYC, USA.

Howard was born in 1969, in County Durham, England, and graduated from Goldsmith's College in 1991 with a degree in Fine Art and Critical Theory. Howard plays with the tensions between control and chaos, order and entropy, making and unmaking, beauty and destruction. She revels in the sheer joy of her material. The intense physicality of her process grapples with notions of uncertainty, fragility, beauty and horror. Religion, repetition, mortality, madness and violence are recurring themes in the work.

Howard is also the founder and editor of the independent publishing house, Doris Press.

Doris Press

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