See Through | Rachel Duckhouse
23 September 2022 to 22 January 2023
An exhibition of drawings, etchings and screen prints exploring the complexity of perception and perspective.
Rachel Duckhouse is a visual artist working primarily in pen and ink drawing and etching. Through drawing she explores rhythms, patterns and structures found in different contexts including landscape, architecture and the flow of water. Her work sometimes derives from working with specialists such as water engineers or biologists, to seek out patterns and forms that can been visually investigated and developed through conversation, observation and sketchbook drawing. Many of the works in this exhibition were made during or after artist residencies, where she was able to physically experience a landscape and make drawings in response. That experience of the landscape might be walking through the isolated moorlands and machair of the Outer Hebrides or exploring the surface of an oyster shell with an electron microscope; there are connections at all scales.
Rachel Duckhouse studied at Leeds College of Art and Winchester School of Art before moving to Glasgow where she now lives and works. She's undertaken research based residencies in Canada, Australia, the Outer Hebrides, the University of Glasgow, and most recently, Newlyn in Cornwall. She has exhibited work in the UK, North America, New Zealand and Singapore. She's worked on several public art commissions, including the entrance gates to the redeveloped Edinburgh Printmakers. Her drawings, screenprints and etchings have been acquired by collections including The British Museum and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.
Image caption: Canberra VII by Rachel Duckhouse