Rachel Lumsden

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Rachel Lumsden (* 1968 in Newcastle upon Tyne ) is a British artist. Her main medium is large format painting. She has lived and worked in St. Gallen (Switzerland) and London since 2002 .

Life

After receiving a BA in Fine Arts from Trent University of Nottingham , Lumsden completed her postgraduate MA in painting at the Royal Academy of Arts Schools in London in 1998 . In parallel to her artistic work, she has been teaching at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences since 2007. The city of St.Gallen honored her curatorial work for the nextex project space with the sponsorship award in 2009.

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Until 2005, Lumsden's painting, organized in cycles, often chose apparently secondary objects such as teapot warmers ( Arclight series ) in order to come to existential findings on current affairs by means of their representation in an unusual perspective, size or color. In Lumsden's works from 2006 onwards, this pars pro toto image strategy changes into a more panoramic representation of the tension between civilization and nature (e.g. Bird Wars series of works ). Lumsden's style of painting "differentiates ... not clearly between figuration and abstraction, in the conviction that painting can move freely between materiality and the creation of illusion, between surface and imaginary dimension". The painter herself sees the painting process as a work of mediation between the material character of the color and the motif, in which lucky coincidence could also play a role. Her photo and video works trace unusual situations found in an urban context.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1999 Foreign Body , Rivington Gallery London, GB
  • 2001 Arc-light , The Spitz Gallery London, GB
  • 2006 Dashboard Talisman , Galerie Christian Röllin CH
  • 2006 Silent Inhabitants , Kunsthalle Arbon (with Max Mosscrop), CH
  • 2008 Bird Wars , Katharinen St. Gallen, CH
  • 2009 Man & Beast , Engländerbau art space, Vaduz, FL
  • 2013 What's the Time, Mr. Wolf ?, Galerie Schönenberger, CH
  • 2013 “Drunk in Charge of a Bicycle”, Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, CH
  • 2013 Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Kunstraum Akku, Emmen / Luzern, CH
  • 2015 “The Other Island” solo exhibition Galerie Bernard Jordan, Zurich CH
  • 2015 «Straight Flush» Gallery Adrian Bleisch CH
  • 2017 Rachel Lumsden, Paintings, Fondation Fernet-Branca F
  • 2017 Rachel Lumsden, Paintings, Kunsthaus d'art CentrePasquart CH
  • 2018 Solo Exhibition, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, FR
  • 2018 Rachel Lumsden, Return of the Huntress, Kunst (Zeug) haus Rapperswil-Jona CH
  • 2018 Rachel Lumsden, In from the blue, Kunstverein Konstanz, City of Konstanz D.

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2009 AIR 2 Artists in Residence: Substitute, Room for Contemporary Art, Berlin DE
  • 2009-10 home game, St. Gallen Art Museum
  • 2010 Let the Yangzte Flow, Hubei Institute of Fine Art, Wuhan, China
  • 2010 arthur # 5 Kunsthalle Toggenburg, Switzerland
  • 2010 Saatchi Gallery London: the art of giving
  • 2011 Survival: Art (stuff) Haus Rapperswil, CH || Feb 2011 The Open West Cheltenham, GB
  • 2012 Central Booking in Berlin, K-Salon, Berlin DE
  • 2012 La Suisse est une ville, Salles d'exposition de la Cité international des arts, Paris FR
  • 2015 Between object and abstraction, Galerie am Lindenplatz. Vaduz FL
  • 2016 Excellent! Museumbickel, Walenstadt CH
  • 2016 Intoxicated - between soaring and falling, Art Museum Thurgau CH
  • 2017 London meets Altdorf, House for Art Uri CH
  • 2018 Twelve Positions of Contemporary Painting, MK2 Uster CH
  • 2019 City, Mountain, River, Singen Art Museum, DE

Awards

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Galler Nachrichten, January 24, 2008: "Lumsden may go to Berlin"
  2. ^ Lucerne University of Applied Sciences , accessed on May 2, 2011.
  3. ↑ City of St.Gallen ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 2, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadt.sg.ch
  4. ↑ sponsorship.credit-suisse  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / sponsorship.credit-suisse.com  
  5. ↑ Rachel Lumsden: Paintings 1998-2008. Essay Felicity Lunn, p. 118
  6. ↑ The entire quote is in English: “Painting is a speculative business. Like a gambler you come to the table with your set of 'chips' - your ideas and concepts. The game involves risk-taking and the active provocation of chance; Images are eventually brokered through the painting process and the substance of paint, with all its unpredictable characteristics. You could say that a painting only really lives by lucky chance. " Retrieved on May 2, 2011
  7. ↑ kuenstlerarchiv  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.6 MB) accessed on May 2, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kuenstlerarchiv.ch  
  8. ↑ Opening speech by Uwe Wieczorek , accessed on May 2, 2011.
  9. ↑ presse.vorarlberg accessed on May 2, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Lumsden, Rachel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle upon Tyne