Rachel Wright creates multi-layered imagery which explores themes of ecology, reciprocity and interconnectedness. She works primarily with photography. However, her interests and techniques range broadly, encompassing analogue and camera-less techniques, digital photography, moving image and live projection.
Interplay between humans and nature
As a visual artist Rachel has a particular interest in the interplay between humans and nature, and the complex and tangled webs of connection that make up our world.
“Ultimately I aim to foster through my work a sense of connection between people and the world around us. For me it is important to position us humans as a part of nature, not apart from it.”
Exploring sustainable photography processes
Following on from many other residency projects, Rachel Wright has been a GroundWork artist in residence during the Ground Up theme year, 2024. Subsequently, with the support of a Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) grant from Arts Council England, Rachel Wright has spent 2024-25 exploring sustainable and environmentally friendly analogue photography processes. These have included plant-based film developing, botanical cyanotype toning and anthotypes. Such methods have enabled her to bring in an additional layer of connection between subject and image through the materiality of place.
Workshop practice
Alongside, and very much informed by, her personal creative practice, Rachel works as a socially engaged arts facilitator She runs courses and workshops, often photography based, but always with a focus on creative expression, wellbeing and nature connection. Rachel holds an MA in Arts & Ecology with Distinction from Dartington Arts School, University of Plymouth. She has exhibited her work widely throughout the UK and overseas.
