Rachel Howard
British artist Rachel Howard (b. 1969, Easington, County Durham UK) 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. Over the past 25 years, religion, repetition, mortality, madness and violence have been recurring themes in the work. A student of both Fine Art and Art History, the art of the past is as essential as the use of the endless portal of the internet, as a fresh source of constant inspiration and dialogue with the world around.
I have been her kind
Part of Enitharmon's print and poem series of co-publications with Jealous Gallery. Howard's print is accompanied by Anne Sexton's poem 'Her Kind' from To Bedlam and Part Way Back (first published 1960)© Linda Gray Sexton The print and poem are presented in a screen-printed bound portfolio.
Six-colour screenprint on Somerset Velvet Antique 280 gsm
35 x 28.5 cm, torn edges
Poem is a one-colour print on an accompanying Somerset Velvet Antique 280 gsm sheet.
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)
Anne Sexton
Her Kind
I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light...
Screenprint£350.00