Rachel Ara

Rachel Ara is a conceptual and data artist who explores the relationships between sex, gender, technology and systems of power. She graduated with a Fine Art degree from Goldsmiths College, London, where she won the prestigious Burston award. As a multi-disciplinary artist, she has a diverse skill set acquired from working 25 years in the tech industry to being a trained cabinet maker and combines them to make unique and often surprising installations and sculptures. The works are nonconformist with a socio-political edge that often incorporates humour and irony with feminist & queer concerns.

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Ara has exhibited work at prestigious galleries across the UK, such as the V&A, Whitechapel Gallery and the Barbican Centre. She is also an award winning artist and is the recipient of the International Aesthetica Art Prize, the coLAB “Women Make Sculpture commission”, shortlisted for the Lumen Prize and received Awards from the Arts Council.