Rachael Clewlow
Through painting and printmaking Clewlow has created a visual language that reflects an obsessive desire to map out and document her own experiences of the world. Her work follows a tradition of reductive abstract painting, informed by the aesthetics of cartographic design but shaped by her love of colour.
In an ongoing series of diaries begun in 2003, she makes rigorous and detailed recordings of her every day movements, minute by minute, measuring time and space. This living archive provides a rich source of data from which Clewlow creates her work. This habitual process is punctuated by performative journeys Clewlow undertakes, often on foot, to explore and respond to the geological heritage of particular locations and landscapes.
Clewlow was born in Middlesbrough in 1984 and lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. She received a First Class BA Hons from Newcastle University in 2007. Group shows include, Jubilee, Vane Gallery, Newcastle, 2022, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: Painting In The North East Now, NCA, Newcastle, 2022, Gesture to Geometry, Platform A, Misddlesbrough, 2022, LEGACY – 50 Years of Painting in The Tees Valley, The Auxillary, Curle, The Revelator, Glasgow, 2021, Middlesbrough,2019, Bis Repetita Placent, Espace de l'Art Concret, Mouans Sartoux, 2019, A Foreign Encounter, Galerie Foe, Munich, 2015, :Xenotopia, Gibberd Gallery, Harlow, 2015, Chance Finds Us, MIMA, Middlesbrough, 2014, Tip of the Iceberg, Contemporary Art Society, London, 2013, Walk On, NGCA, Sunderland, touring to various UK galleries, 2013, National Print Biennale, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007.
She was a Prize Winner in the Nationwide Mercury Art Competition, Hospital Gallery, London, 2007. Her work is included in both private and public collections, including The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and Rochdale Arts and Heritage Collection. Forthcoming solo shows include My Paths Are My Ideas of Imagination, Touchstones, Rochdale and Explorer, Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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