BIO
Rachel Rimell is a photographic artist based in North Yorkshire. Her practice spans documentary and conceptual genres exploring themes of identity, transitions and liminal spaces alongside the transient nature of human experience and place in the landscape. She trained as a photojournalist in 1997 under the National Council for Training Journalist at Sradbroke College in Sheffield, following graduation from Hull University with a 2.1 in History and History of Art in 1996. She had a long career as a journalist, editor and in government press and communications as a chief press officer, deputy head of marketing and communications and head of internal communications before returning to a photography and art practice in 2013. She graduated with distinction in an MA in Photography from Falmouth University in 2023.
Her work has been nationally and internationally exhibited and has received a number of accolades.
Her work was recently exhibited at the RPS Summer show in 2023 as well as being shortlisted for the RPS IPE165. Other recent exhibition highlights include her solo show The Handworkers at Ryedale Folk Museum Gallery in 2023; Lies a Calm Along The Deep, a multi-media solo show installation at Dalby Forest 2022; Format 23 as part of Performing the Photobook group show with her sculptural phonebook Fragments; Transmutation at Margate School 2023; Motherhood & Identity solo show at Platform for Sydenham Arts 2019; and at Shutterhub group exhibitions Everyday Delights (nationwide) 2020, Postcards from Great Britain (Europe-wide) 2021, Your Body Belongs to You (France) 2022, and the current To The Sea (France) 2023-24.
She was a winner of Portrait of Britain 2020 and her work was shown in the national exhibition of the same name and published in the accompanying book. Her artists’ book Ebb|Flow was shortlisted for the Belfast Photo Festival 2022; Lies a Calm Along The Deep was shortlisted for Photo North Emerging Artist 2023; and she was a finalist in The Guardian’s Women Behind the Lens in 2019. Her work has been published in Portrait of Britain Vol 3 and Rankin’s This is Britain book and is included in the upcoming publication Stir The Pot by Overlapse Publishing, as well as being featured in Source Magazine,The Guardian, Vogue Italia, FujiLove, Motherdom and the BBC.