About Rachel

Rachel Reid is an artist with a background in human rights and journalism, who is passionate about the potential for social change through art and creative practice.

She has an MA (distinction) in Art and Politics from Goldsmiths (2020) and previously studied at the Art Students League of New York from 2012-16.

In the UK she has worked on issues relating to slavery (see “Royal Slavery”), housing and homelessness (see “Celebrate Social Housing,” “Street Heritage” and “25 towards Ilford”). She has worked on environmental issues, including plastic pollution (see “Resonance” exhibition).

She was commissioned in 2018 to create a sculpture for the gardens of the Walter Lippmann House, the Nieman Foundation’s offices at Harvard University, to commemorate the photographer Anya Niedringhaus, who was killed in Afghanistan.

Her work "After", inspired by her experience as a human rights investigator in Afghanistan, won the popular vote in the Social Art Awards in 2017, and was selected for inclusion in a book on Social Art in 2017.

She works with activists all over the world on creative activism, as a consultant and a volunteer. Voluntary work includes working as a Europe mentor for the “Free the Vaccine for Covid 19” campaign, a global movement to ensure publicly-funded diagnostic tools, treatment, and vaccines will be sustainably priced, available to all and free at the point of delivery (see “Creative Activism”)

Rachel was Artist in Residence at Antony Gormley’s High House in Norfolk in September-October 2019 (for a work still in progress), Takt in Berlin in 2017 (resulting in a Berlin exhibition), and an artist in residence at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in 2016 and 2017. She is a member of the South London Women Artists and Brixton Women’s Creative Network.

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