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Contemporary British Artist

Dada Awards 2005

Rachel Wins the Dada Visual Artist Award 2005

Rachel receiving her award from Pam Wilshire, Head of Tourism Sector Development, The Mersey Partnership, sponsors of the Visual Artist Category Award

A million thanks to everyone who so generously voted and supported my shortlisting for the Dada Awards 2005. I was overwhelmed to receive the Award in Liverpool on the 1st December 2005 from the Mersey Partnership who generously sponsored the Visual Artist Category.

Rachel with Tim Hayton

Rachel with her parents Roy and Hilda Gadsden at the Dada Fest Awards Dinner Liverpool

Background Information

Rachel was recently been shortlisted for the Dada Awards 2005. These awards are given to artists and performers annually for achievement. The shortlist was selected by a panel of artists and Award sponsors and the final judging is open to a public vote.

Rachel is particularly pleased to have been shortlisted this year, the Cane Hill Asylum Hospital and the North Wales Asylum Hospital projects have enabled Rachel to develop multi layered narratives that consider our psychological ephemerallity. This work has been made possible by the generous support of Sarah Pickthall from Arts Council South East who had the vision to put the Poetics of Decay project forward for an Arts Council Grant for the Arts Award which funded the Cane Hill project, and Artsadmin who awarded Rachel an Artsadmin Digital Media Bursary for her North Wales Hospital project. Nikki Tomlinson of Artsadmin continues to encourage Rachel to explore her subject through digital video media and performance and film. Rachel is also indebted to the North Wales Hospital Historical Society who have shared their experience of working at the hospital and their stories about the hospital to enable her to develop her paintings, and finally Debbie Snow who curated the very successful Beyond the Asylum Exhibition at Denbigh Museum and Library.

It has been a very exciting year and Rachel is delighted that the panel of the Dada Awards have selected her for the final public vote for the Visual Artist category.

detail from Dancing with Angels