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.

Her guerilla installation, “Royal Slavery” was featured in Apollo Magazine in January 2023, as well as being featured in Robert Bevan’s book, “Monumental Lies” and the Guardian online. An aspect of the work was exhibited in the Jamestown-Yorktown museum in Virginia, as well as a Westminster exhibition on Royal Slavery that she co-curated in 2022.

She has an ongoing series of work, "After", which is inspired by her experience as a human rights investigator in Afghanistan. “After” (Mother/Child) won the popular vote in the Social Art Awards in 2017, and was selected for inclusion in a book on Social Art in 2017. (More coming soon on this!)

She has a series of work on housing and homelessness (see “Celebrate Social Housing,” “Street Heritage” and “25 towards Ilford”). She has worked on environmental issues, including plastic pollution.

She was commissioned in 2018 to create a sculpture for a garden at Harvard University, the Walter Lippmann House of the Nieman Foundation. It commemorates the photographer Anya Niedringhaus, who was killed in Afghanistan (“Anyas’s Birds”).

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.

Rachel was Artist in Residence at Antony Gormley’s High House in Norfolk in September-October 2019 (where she worked on the “After” series), 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 has been a member of the South London Women Artists and Brixton Women’s Creative Network.

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