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BIG BAD WOLF
An exhibition by Rachel Howard
Below the Caledonian Railway Bridge, Glasgow
28th September 2024
‘BIG BAD WOLF’ offers a rare and intimate opportunity to experience Rachel Howard’s art in an entirely new format. This exhibition is an exercise in image collection, distillation and re-presentation.
In one painting a man holds a gun as he reaches the cusp of a hill, in another light emanates from beneath a curtain, a further painting depicts two dusty figures walking in what appears to be a war zone. The entire back wall leads us through a pastoral scene out through the gallery door, of which of course we cannot pass. There’s also a high flying bird and some pretty patterns, all for us to mull over. These tiny paintings are executed by flipping from photograph to painting back to photograph then finally painted once again - not everything is as it seems here.
Rachel Howard is a British painter who was exhibited nationally and internationally for the past three decades. She was born in 1969 in County Durham, England, and graduated from Goldsmith’s College in 1991 with a degree in Fine Art and Critical Theory. She plays with the tensions between control and chaos, order and entropy, making and unmaking, beauty and destruction.
She revels in the sheer joy of her material. The intense physicality of her process grapples with notions of uncertainty, fragility, beauty and horror.