Rachel Wickremer

Shield - geometric abstract mixed media: polycarbonate, acrylic shield and gloss

2015

Born in Buckinghamshire in 1976, Rachel Wickremer is a Canterbury based painter known for her colourful work. Exploring the relationship between the ...

Born in Buckinghamshire in 1976, Rachel Wickremer is a Canterbury based painter known for her colourful work. Exploring the relationship between the m...

Rachel Wickremer is a Canterbury based painter known for her colourful work exploring the relationship between the maker and the prefabricated, she is...

This recent body of work is informed by my continuing research into the physical and metaphorical nature of archaeological artefacts and votive objects, allied to the referencing of the symbolic forms and materiality of alchemy. Central to this practical investigation has been the use of ‘gold’, and the qualities that the material, with its obvious chromatic and symbolic values, seems to possess. This has driven both the conceptual and pragmatic concerns within the evolution of this work. Gold is an alluring and complex symbol of many, often conflicting meanings, avarice, greed, wealth but also of purity and celebration, and has been used as the adornment of spiritual and religious iconography as a devotional act for millennia. The titles refer to connections I have made with the forms themselves, often when making a painting a word will emerge which acts as a form of poetic catalyst. ‘Parsival’ or Percivale/Peredur was the knight questing for the holy grail...

This recent body of work is informed by my continuing research into the physical and metaphorical nature of archaeological artefacts and votive objects, allied to the referencing of the symbolic forms and materiality of alchemy. Central to this practical investigation has been the use of ‘gold’, and the qualities that the material, with its obvious chromatic and symbolic values, seems to possess. This has driven both the conceptual and pragmatic concerns within the evolution of this work. Gold is an alluring and complex symbol of many, often conflicting meanings, avarice, greed, wealth but also of purity and celebration, and has been used as the adornment of spiritual and religious iconography as a devotional act for millennia. The titles refer to connections I have made with the forms themselves, often when making a painting a word will emerge which acts as a form of poetic catalyst. ‘Parsival’ or Percivale/Peredur was the knight questing for the holy grail...

Colourful work exploring the relationship between the maker and the prefabricated, she is interested in lines, pattern and the space in-between. Her process involves injecting manuf...

Titled: Chants. Hand signed and dated. Sonja Kuhfahl (1928-) is a German born woman artist. She began her art career studying fashion design in Europe,...

"Rift Valley, Sonde 15" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with gestural...

"Rift Valley, Sonde 15" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with gestural...

"At Sea between Fossils and Satellites 9" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with art deco aestheti...

"Rift Valley, Sonde 9" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...

"Rift Valley, Sonde 1" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...