ABOUT

Through sculpture and drawing I explore physical encounters with objects, memory and landscape. I enjoy negotiating the slippery ground between ‘knowing and not knowing’ what something is. Through the construction of one – off moulds, I play with negative space and the unpredictability of working with fluid materials like plaster, as a means of exploring abstracted forms, familiarity and perception. I’m excited by the convergence of materials, often lining the moulds with fabrics, fibres, dust and other materials to explore intriguing contrasts of surface, imprint and internal structures. Through the additive and reductive processes of constructing and peeling back, filling and sanding, hiding and revealing, I create surfaces that embody their processes of making. My work explores time, material remains and the evidence of human thinking and activity.

 I grew up in rural 1970’s Somerset.  A landscape of arable farmland where the physical evidence of coal mining left wooded slag heaps, batches, unstable spoil piles of leftovers and fragmented remnants of that industry. The scars of canals and railways still trace around the area. Early childhood experiences informed a way of thinking about landscape - surface and interior, chance and intention, layers and time that has underpinned my art practice.

Rachael Causer ( b.UK) lives and works in London

Please get in contact: rachaelcauser@gmail.com

Instagram : @rachael.causer