Rachel Lowther

Rachel Lowther was invited by OHNO COOPERATION (Jan Lauwers & Maarten Seghers) as a resident in AIR Antwerpen for the OPEN AIR # 5 festival.

Rachel Lowther wants to stop hurtling towards death and make art for pure bloody pleasure, without having to consider war, corruption and child torture. She prefers not to think about, for example, the flame-like curve of bill hooks and other theoretically beautiful rural tools that may have been in use in Worcestershire, England in 1780, but instead create objects that are emissaries from another place that might be hard, shiny, cruel and brightly-colored or flimsy, ephemeral and pathetic, big, heavy, dead, rude, dumb, sexless, ridiculous, ugly, rampantly aggressive, slow and full of love. She has also been planning and testing sculptures that envelope, bury, and conceal her children – with their occasional assistance.
 She is one third of DEATHANDDADA (with Amalia Thoedorakopoulos and Fritz Welch), a Glasgow-based artist-run alternative space, which sometimes finds itself abroad, and has been collaborating on feminist artworks with Glasgow based artists, Anne-Marie Copestake, Kate Davis, Lorna MacIntyre, and curator Kitty Anderson.


She studied art at Chelsea College of Art, London, Staedelschule, Frankfurt aM. and Hunter College, NYC and has shown and curated shows internationally, including Participant Inc, NYC, Thread Waxing Space, NYC, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and Maschenmode, Berlin.