Rachel North

Rachel North is an Ipswich based artist and educator, working across textiles and
ceramics. Growing up and living in predominantly rural and regional areas, her
connection to landscape is an inherent component of her artworks. She has exhibited
in group and solo shows in Townsville, Brisbane and Ipswich, and been a finalist and
won awards for her artworks. She has also been the recipient of grants and bursaries.
Rachel explores representations of landscapes in her works, examining the depth of
tread on places traversed and connectivity to these spaces. Communicating
predominantly in ceramics and textile-based installation works, the artist’s
consciousness about the impact of human activity and how the landscape shapes,
holds and hinders memory in central to her multi-disciplinary approach. With a
historiographical approach to forms to drive conceptual development, North
manipulates materials to emphasise the temporality of memory within the landscapes
of their formation and the impact of human behaviour on memory.