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Contemporary British Artist

Rachel Gadsden

Rachel Gadsden graduated with a BA Degree in Fine Art from Wimbledon School of Art in 1998. In 1999 Rachel studied for a diploma in Anatomy and Art at University College London Medical School and received an Arts and Humanities Research Board Award in 2000 to study for an MA in Fine Art at the City and Guilds of London Art School.

She has won a number of awards for her work including the Juliet Gomperts Memorial Scholarship and the William Brooking Research Scholarship. In 1999 a series of Rachel's drawings was exhibited in the Dostoyevsky Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, as part of the annual International Dostoyevsky Symposium. In 2003 Rachel's Wasteland painting (part of the Penallta Colliery series) was awarded the 'Most Popular Painting Prize' in the Hunting Art Prizes Competition, Asylum won the People's Choice Prize at the The Whittingham Riddell Shrewsbury Open Art Exhibition 2005, and Touching Angels (Iraq) won the People's Choice Prize at the Holton Lee International Disability Arts Competition 2007.

In December 2004 Rachel was awarded an Artsadmin Digital Media Bursary to develop her North Wales Hospital project.

Rachel received an Arts Council Grant for the Arts Award from Arts Council SE to develop her Poetics of Decay Project. ACE SE have also selected the Poetics of Decay project to be part of Inside Out. Commissioned by ACE SE, Inside Out has brought together a team of artists to make work responding to places and spaces in the south east. The work was launched on the 22nd June in Brighton during Architecture Week 2005 and on the web at:

www.art-architecture.co.uk/insideout

Awards

2007 People's Choice Prize for "Touching Angels"
Holton Lee International Disability Arts Competition, Faith Gallery, Dorset
2005 Dada Visual Artist Award 2005
2005 Winner of the People's Choice Prize Shrewsbury Open Exhibition 2005
2005 Finalist The Whittingham Riddell Shrewsbury Open Art Exhibition 2005
2005 Grant for the Arts Award Arts Council of England
2005 Inside Out Arts Council and Royal Institute of British Architects
2004 Artsadmin Digital Media Bursary
2003 Finalist “Shrewsbury Sotheby’s Open Competition”
2003 Hunting Art Prizes 2003 “Most Popular Painting Prize”
2002 London Arts “International Go” Grant to Colombia, South America.
2000 MA Arts and Humanities Research Board Bursary
1998 William Brooker Painting Scholarship to Spain
1996 Juliet Gomperts Memorial Scholarship to Italy

Touching Angels (Iraq) 2006
152cm x 122cm