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Rachel Magdeburg

Wolverhampton/Manchester
Visual artist and Lecturer in Painting

Rachel Magdeburg is a visual artist, writer and academic researcher based in Wolverhampton and Manchester. Her paintings explore the natural world, flora and fauna, making processes, painting's contested and problematic Western art history, and ideas and iconography from everyday life and popular culture. 

 

 

 

Sprezzatura (exhibition installation)

Recent work (installation view)

Recent work (installation view)

Cryptic Painting (installation images)

Installation view of Yellow Bellies

Yellow Bellies (Installation images)

Buoyed up

Citron

Double Rough

Brine

Bristles

Yellow Bellies (berry horizon)

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