Rachel is a printmaker and visual artist based in Limerick, Ireland, working with cyanotype to reveal the hidden world beneath familiar coastlines.
Growing up in Sligo on the west coast of Ireland, she spent years looking out at the Atlantic, a landscape many people know intimately from the shore but rarely explore beneath the surface. Her work brings those two worlds together, placing the underwater alongside the landscape above to ask what lies just out of sight of the places we think we know.
She recently graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design, where she studied Print Contemporary Practice. Her practice combines cyanotype with photography and printmaking, drawing on her own underwater photography to create imagery that is immersive and meditative. The cyanotype process is essential to this work, its deep, saturated blues and its sensitivity to light carry the quality of water itself.