Rachel Mcgurk
Rachel is a South West England photographer and a recent photography graduate of the University of the West of England. Using photographic storytelling to create narrative based imagery she often involves landscape or community, addressing our relationship with it whilst experimenting with mixed media and alternative photographic processes.
Within her work she uses the landscape as an instrument to explore and address her own or others' relationship with it. She has often found that through her research of place and landscape she can better understand her connections to it and relay this through her creative output.
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Rachels recent work explores themes of mythology and legends as it challenges her perspective and viewpoint on an environment. She introduces multifaceted themes and emotions of her own and those in folklore in an abstract and conceptual manner.
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Within Rachel's practice, she is experimental with the different approaches to making visual imagery, such as alternative practices as the cyanotype, which allows her to involve natural materials into her practice.
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Her work is also aimed towards questioning the audience and their understanding of the landscape they inhabit.
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Her ongoing project Knot does just this. Drawing from Bristol folklore she explores themes of symbolism within the natural world, often making references to life, death and the power of the landscape.
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