Rachel Lancaster

Rachel Lancaster

Rachel Lancaster's paintings take their subject from the world of Film and TV. She extracts cinematic moments from movies through the use of digital photography often taken directly from the screen, which are then taken by Lancaster and then copied into oil on canvas paintings. The images that Lancaster gravitates to are the commonplace unimportant moments of movies, a blurred image of a corridor from 'Teenwolf' or a car bonnet from 'The Sopranos'. The resulting paintings elevate the ordinary towards poignancy, whilst interrogating the cult status of the image, testing whether it holds up when reduced to its most insignificant and our questioning our desire to connect the work with a bigger story.


Biography

Born 1979, Hartlepool, UK
1998-2001 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Northumbria University
Lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Represented by Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK


Solo Exhibitions

Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK (Sept 2009)


Group Exhibitions

2009
Morphic Resonance, PSL, Leeds, UK
Day After Day, Star & Shadow Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Royal Academy Summer Show, London, UK

2008
Lost & Found, Workplace Gallery at Zoo Art Fair, London, UK
'All My Favourite Singers Couldn't Sing …', Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Sovereign Art Prize, Somerset House, London, UK
Harker Herald, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
TOMORROW THE FUTURE, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, UK

2007
BEACON OF HOPE, Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria UK
You're My Density, Star & Shadow Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne


Collections

Private Collections UK