Biography:
Rachel Mortby is a British artist who lives and works in London. She studied Fashion (BA), at Middlesex University and is currently on the MA in Fine Art at City and Guilds London Art School, graduating in September 2026.
Artist Statement:
Working across drawing, painting, print making, applique, soft sculpture and collage, I explore figuration combined with abstraction.
An interest in metamorphosis, the fragility of our biology, and our connection to animals in the age of the anthropocene, forms the basis of my work.
Creative work develops as a response to a mythical or historical theme. Characters become part of a floating world of Carnivalesque imagery.
Poetry, song lyrics and everyday phraseology feed into the subjects and titles my work.
I like to play with how a painting connects to modern life and what is at the primal core of human evolution.
Contact:
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Exhibitions:
City & Guilds Art School Interim Show
March 2026
Together Through Art Mall Galleries London
February 2026
Marylebone Gallery
July 2025
City & Guilds Art School Interim Show
March 2025
Beep Painting Biennale 2024
Nov-Mar 2025 Elysium gallery
The Essential School of Painting
Group show July 2024
The Essential School of Painting
Group show July 2023
Artists Open House Dulwich
May 2023
Dulwich Art Group Artists Open House
May 2022
Great Bow Wharf Gallery
Langport Somerset
Aug 2021-Dec 2024
Jane Newbery Gallery
Nov 2021-Nov 2022