Rachel North: Anthology of memory
Rachel North
an anthology of memory / lingering / in the forgetting. 2024 (DETAIL).
Natural and naturally dyed wool and silk with Gotland Fleece, wild tussah silk and red eri silk thread.
22 Feb 2025 — 13 Apr 2025
Rachel North
an anthology of memory / lingering / in the forgetting. 2024 (DETAIL).
Natural and naturally dyed wool and silk with Gotland Fleece, wild tussah silk and red eri silk thread.
| Dates | Saturday 22 February to Sunday 13 April |
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| Times | Open 10am — 5pm daily |
| Cost | FREE |
| Booking | No bookings are required to visit the exhibition. Opening event: Saturday 1 March 2025, 5:30-7:30pm (rsvp's open soon) |
| Age | All ages welcome |
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 artwork. This exhibition continues the artist’s exploration of connections between the landscape and memory and how the colours and textures of a place can hold, heal, or hinder memory.
This exhibition consists of a large-scale installation of naturally dyed wool, silk thread and beeswax alongside ceramic vessels. The work communicates lived experiences of a child within a landscape marred by trauma. In both bodies of work varied surfaces emphasise the contrasting temporality of certain memories, some inseparable from the landscape in which they were formed.
artist portrait, photographed by Jo Hammond.
Rachel North
Rachel’s work delves into representations of landscapes, exploring the imprints left by human activity and the connections we form with these spaces. Working primarily in ceramics and textile-based installations, she is deeply conscious of how landscapes shape, preserve, and obscure memory, a theme central to her multidisciplinary practice.
Through a historiographical approach to form, Rachel drives her conceptual development, manipulating materials to highlight the fleeting nature of memory and its interaction with the landscapes where it originates. Her work also examines the impact of human behaviour on how memories are shaped and held.
Rachel has exhibited in group and solo shows across Townsville, Brisbane, and Ipswich. Her talent has been recognised through awards, finalist selections, and the recipient of grants and bursaries.