Rachel Hemming
rachelhemming13@gmail.com
Born in 2003 in Birmingham. Currently studying & working in Bournemouth.
Education
2022 - Present - Fine Art BA (Hons), Arts University Bournemouth
2019-2021 - Fine Art A Level, Wymondham High School Sixth Form
Exhibitions
2024 - METAMORPHOSE, Bournemouth Natural Science Society (Forthcoming)
2023 - as above so below, Arts University Bournemouth (Group)
Publications
2020 - Pupil helps charity with drawing inspired by coronavirus symbol of hope, EDP, Online - https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/education/20756660.pupil-helps-charity-drawing-inspired-coronavirus-symbol-hope/
Experience
2024 - Set Designer for Film 'I am a Woman' Directed by Laryssa Menon
2023 - Costume Designer for Film 'Poncho' Directed by Benji Albert
2022 - Hair & Makeup Artist for Film 'About Last Night' Directed by Joe Collyer
2022 - Volunteer 'Pixie', Latitude Festival
2021-2022 - Yipiyap English Tutor, Online
2018 - Afterschool Art Assistant, Long Stratton High School
Skills
I am highly skilled in video editing, specifically Adobe Premiere Pro. I have gained experience using materials that require industrial equipment like metal, wood and printmaking studying at Arts University Bournemouth. During my time as an English Tutor, I gained confidence in communication and adaptation, alongside being fully DBS check qualified. I have a full UK driving license and am available across the country.
ABOUT ARTIST
Rachel Hemming is a multidisciplinary artist, working between film, performance & sculpture. They are currently based in Bournemouth, England.
Involved in activism and politics, her art interrogates the interconnected infrastructures built into the human experience such as classism, speciesism, & capitalism. She's fascinated by the divisions and inequality that are byproducts of power and how these manifest themselves within human-land connections. Criticism & activism is a motif that their work is grounded in and inspires creation. They are currently working on a performative, sculptural & site-specific piece at the Bournemouth Natural Science Society, exploring the colonial history of the venue's collection that they’re exhibiting amongst. This project also explores property law by contrasting it with UK legislation over land & nature, combining found natural materials into the sculpture’s form.
Their work explores and searches for meaning in the human condition, often commenting on consumption under capitalism and how this makes human ecology forever evolving. Rachel enjoys exploring the meanings that are communicated when combining waste & industrial materials, such as can tabs, hair & metal, into her making process. Through the incorporation of these materials, she seeks to confront viewers with the uncomfortable realities of factory farming, global climate disaster & war that we live amongst in complicity.
Rachel emphasises the need for their art to be experienced with touch and closeness in order for the artwork to connect with viewers. In 'Milk' (2023), they invite viewers to walk into the metal sculpture and be closed in, being put into the space of a dairy cow by the artist. Often feeling intrusive within art spaces, Rachel wants to break this imagined distance between the art and the viewer in her exhibitions. Having a sensory interaction with art encourages the viewer to feel involved and open dialogue surrounding often emotional themes conveyed in their artwork. Rachel believes that everyone should experience art and is thus putting these methods of interaction to make accessibility an intrinsic value in their artwork going forward.