Racheal Causer

THATCH

11th May – 29th June 

Rachael Causer is an artist whose sculpture and drawing explores traces of touch, repeated activity and labour embodied in everyday objects.

The works in Thatch explore elements of domestic architecture, building methods and materials, focussing particularly on coverings – cladding, thatched roofs, upholstery, pipes and lagging.Playing with conventions of museological display, fragmented forms are seen ‘back to front or inside out’ and traces of familiar objects are rendered uncanny. Working with plaster and fabrics, Causer constructs moulds and casts their internal spaces, exploring negative space as a form of 3-dimensional printmaking, before peeling back layers to excavate the interior and to reveal new structures and surfaces. Soft blanketed forms reveal seams and brittle edges.

From an interest in how the spaces we reside in accumulate memories and become the repositories of emotional history, her works explore place and time - how surfaces embody history; the accruing of marks and layers revealing evidence of use and process, man-made and otherwise.

‘I make sculpture as a way of thinking about physical encounters with objects in the world and my work is about this relationship and material conversation. I enjoy operating in the slippery ground between knowing and not knowing what something is’.

Rachael Causer is a British artist living and working in London. She exhibits widely and her work is held in the Tavistock & Portman NHS Collection. She is an educator in museums, schools and colleges, the NHS and the community. She has an MA from Camberwell College of Art and was a member of MASS/TURPS Sculpture mentor programme from 2021-23. She is a founder member of Changeable Beast artist collective.

https://www.rachaelcauser.com/

Photographs by Anthony Coleman