"Mainly working on paper, I like to explore and reflect our screen based culture in a playful and instinctive way.
Often contrasting the slickness of those online spaces with the roughness of unpredictable monotype printing and torn up collage; I’m interested in the pressures, the voyeuristic pleasures, and the isolation that often come along with the contemporary world. The aspirational images that bombard us and that we ourselves create. 
Watching a pool party that we aren’t invited to, therapy confessions, messy reality television relationships playing out as we watch on.

In my most recent series I have combined water- based ink monotypes with direct ink drawing. The pigment seeps out. It pools and drips.

In these works, odd couples inhabit artificial tableaux-like scenes. 
Bathers, self-conscious in the spotlight; posturing and preening. Oddly disconnected. Caught in a performative, relationship dance."

 

Rae is a self taught artist living and working in London.

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Selected Exhibitions

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Upcoming

July 2026, Hogarth Art Prize Exhibition, Hogarth House

July 2026, Sidney Nolan Trust Open: Group Exhibition, Herefordshire

November 2026, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, 'Intimations: An Invitation', Group Exhibition

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​2026

Ripped, Solo Show, Finch Gallery, London Fields

London Art Fair, 155a Gallery

Lido Stores, Margate, 'Memento Amoris', Group Show

Irving Gallery Open, Oxford

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​2025

155a Gallery, In Half-Lit Rooms, Solo Show

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Gallery 155a, London Art Fair

Irving Gallery Open, Oxford

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2024

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2024, London

Solo Show: Small Screen Lovers, 155a Gallery, London

Lido Stores Open 2024, Margate

Hampstead Art Society Open, Mayfair, London

Drop It, Finch Cafe, London

Drop It II, BCMA, Berlin

Fierce Scandal, Lido Stores, Margate

Mischief, Safehouse Peckham, London

New English Art Club Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

 

2023

Solo Show, London Fields Lido, London

Life Stories, IAF Gallery, London

End of the Day Parts I & II, Finch, London

Lido Stores Open 2023, Margate

Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix

Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London

ING Drawing Bursary Shortlist, London

Sugar Cube, Lido Stores, Margate

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2022

Women Celebrating Surrealism, IAF Gallery, London

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, London

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London

ING Drawing Bursary Shortlist, London

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Prizes

New English Art Club Scholarship, 2023/24

Artichoke Print Prize, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, 2023/24

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