Rachel Adams
I was always interested in the hierarchy of materials.
Rachel Adams via youngartistsinconversation.co.uk, 2014
Rachel Adams’ (1985, United Kingdom) work is drawing, but not quite as we know it. Using paper draped over wooden armatures to create large sculptural forms in bleached-out, faded pastel tones, Adams extrapolates one of drawing’s traditional functions – to define spatial relationships on a plane – into three dimensions. Her work occupies the space of the gallery much as a bronze sculpture would, but with none of its mass and spatial aggression.
