RACHEL GARRARD

Rachel Garrard’s work is a journey in the liminal space between scientific research and esoteric practice. Through this she has developed a symbolic language that intimately connects the internal with the cosmic and universal. Garrard’s work is a multidisciplinary practice across painting, sculpture, video, performance, installation and holographic projection. The paintings are composed from natural substances, such as quartz, ash or rock powder pigment, that she personally collects and applies to raw linen through a process of fine layering. They comprise a distinct language of geometric and symbolic forms that she has developed over many years that are both personal imaginaries and loose interpretations of propositions in quantum physics, such as M-theory and supersymmetry. Assimilating these theories with experiences I access through meditation informs their composition. Her site-specific, ephemeral installations using nature as the medium, interweave these forms in relation to specific natural phenomena, their structure echoing the instability of form and the inevitability of change.