Visual Artist who lives and works in Glasgow
Lecturer in Sculpture and Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art.
b. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 1985
Rachel Adams has exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Damp, (2022), domobaal, London Home Grown (2021), Yoshimi Arts, Osaka, Noon, David Dale Galleries and Studio, Glasgow, Lowlight, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, Right Twice a Day, Jerwood Project Space, (all 2018), How to Live in a Flat, The Tetley, Leeds (2014); Spacecraft, Tramway, Glasgow (2013).
In 2015-6 Adams was the Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture at the British School at Rome and in 2023 she was a recipient of a Henry Moore Artist Award. She has created permanent commission for Colletive, Edinburgh and the V&A Dundee restaurant. Her work is also held in private collections as well as the Scottish National, Saatchi, David Roberts Collections and the Hedge House Bonnefanten and AkzoNobel Art Foundation.
Rachel Adams studied at Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh, the MFA at Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford and was an AHRC funded Doctoral Researcher University of Edinburgh and Dundee Contemporary Art Print Studio between 2017 and 2023.
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Shoe Horn with Hilda Kortei, PipelineXSlugown, London
2023
High on the Summit Ridge,Gabecare (collaboration with Tessa Lynch) at Travelling Gallery, various locations across Scotland
2022
Damp, domobaal, London
2021
Home Grown, Yoshimi Arts, Osaka
2019
Hothouse, Hospitalfield, Arbroath
2018
Noon, David Dale Gallery & Studios, Glasgow
Lowlight, Bloc Projects, Sheffield.
2017
Right Twice a Day, Jerwood Project Space, Jerwood Visual Arts, London
2015
Open Studio, Yoshimi Arts, Osaka
2014
Long Reach,domobaal, London
How to Live in a Flat, The Tetley, Leeds,
2013
Suburban Mystic,The Lombard Method, Birmingham
Space-Craft,Tramway, Glasgow
2012
Posturing, as part of ‘The Sculpture Show’, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Refurnished, Galerie De Expeditie Amsterdam, Holland
2011
Cut From Whole Cloth, domobaal, London
Marble Mouthed, the duchy, Glasgow
The Compleat Lounger, The Shop, Cambridge
2010
Blind Alchemy, collaborative exhibition with Ian Giles, Royal Standard, Liverpool and Studio Warehouse, Glasgow.
2009
Golden Years, New Work Scotland Programme, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
“_”, Alt gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Group Exhibitions
2017
Insight 2018, Yoshimi Arts, Osaka, Japan
2016
March Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
June Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
Material Form in a Digital Age II, Yoshimi Arts, Osaka, Japan
2015
December Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
2014
£1 Fish, S1 Art Space, Sheffield
Vivariam, Model, Liverpool
Material Form in a Digital Age, Yoshimi Arts, Osaka, Japan
Mood is Made/Temperature is Taken, Glasgow Sculpture Studio, Glasgow
New Work, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh
2013
blipblipblip, Leeds
Game Changer, Off-site group exhibition at Meadowbank Stadium, curated by the Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Commissioned Artist, The Collection, Lincoln
Paper, Saatchi Gallery, London
Costume: Written Clothing, Tramway, Glasgow
Jesmonite on Paper, Malgras/Naudet, Manchester
2012
Last Chance, Studio Warehouse, Glasgow
Artlicks Pavilion, ICA, London
Pavilion, David Dale Gallery & Studios, Glasgow
Arrives in Starting, The Lighthouse, curated by The Duchy, Glasgow International
Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Galerie De Expeditie, Amsterdam, Holland
2011
LABF, Whitechapel Gallery, London, domobaal
Look with all your eyes, Look, Frith Street Gallery, London
Outpost Summer Fayre: Am Nuden Da, Embassy, Grand Union, OUTPOST, Permanent, Norwich, UK
2010
LABF, Whitechapel Gallery, London, domobaal
Be The Hammer or The Anvil, Generator Projects, Dundee, UK
Bold Tendencies IV, Hannah Barry Gallery, Peckham multistory car park, London
Nothing New Under the Sun, The Duchy, Glasgow
Ekkert Nytt Undir Solinni/Nothing New Under the Sun, Skaftfell Centre for Visual Art, Seydisfjordur, Iceland and The Duchy, Glasgow
2009
Time is a Sausage (A Show of Shows), domobaal, London
4 New Sensations, A Foundation, London
Neapolitan, Intermedia Degree Show, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
Awards and Residencies
2015-16
Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture, British School of Rome, Rome, Italy
2014
Creative Scotland Artist Bursary
Micro-Residency, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh
Henry Moore Foundation Project Funding
2013
Art Angel Open 100
Artist in Residence, The Lombard Method, Birmingham
Arts Trust Scotland Award
2012
Standpoint Futures Residency, Standpoint, London
Visual Arts & Crafts Award, Edinburgh City Council
2010
Birgir Andressen Residency, Skaftfell Centre for Visual Art, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2009
Visual Art Creative and Professional Development Grant, Scottish Arts Council.
2009
Visual Arts & Crafts Award, Edinburgh City Council
Andrew Grant Award, Edinburgh College of Art
Talks and Discussions
2017
Art History Research Lecture Series, University of St Andrews, St Andrews
2015
Extra-Curricular Activity: Undermining Histories of Art, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
2014
Artist Talk, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Artist Talk, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh.
2013
Artist Talk, The Lombard Method, Birmingham
In Conversation with Claire Jackson, Tramway, Glasgow
NWSP: discussion panel, Collective Gallery in collaboration with Tramway, Glasgow
2012
Five Hats, discussion panel, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh.
It’s Hard To Find a Good Lamp, a group exhibition curated by Rachel Adams at Rhubaba, Edinburgh.
2011
Contemporary Art and its relationship with Feminism, Panel discussion at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
ArtLicks ‘The Introduction’ Rachel Adams interviewed by Ian Giles, Issue 5 Winter 2011.
2009
Fear of Photography, Addiction to Surveillance, Reading group project initiated at Stills Gallery Edinburgh.
Teaching & other positions
Lecturer, Glasgow School of Art
Visiting Lecturer, Edinburgh College of Art
Visiting Lecturer, The Art Academy, London
Selector, Satellites Programme, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Visiting Lecturer, Leeds College of Art, Leeds
Visiting Artist, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
Rhubaba Gallery & Studio Trustee 2012-5
Rhubaba Gallery & Studio co-founder and co-director 2009-12
2011-12: Digital Media Graduate Assistant, Edinburgh College of Art
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