Rachel Ara Explained

Rachel Ara
Birth Date:	1965
Birth Place:	Jersey, Channel Islands^[1]
Education:	Goldsmiths, University of London
Known For:	Conceptual art, Data art, Digital art, Contemporary art
Notable Works:	This Much I'm Worth^[2] ^[3]
Awards:	Burston award;^[4] Lumen Prize artist;^[5] Aesthetica Art Prize (2016)^[6]
Website:	www.2ra.co

Rachel Ara (born 1965, Jersey) is a London-based contemporary British conceptual and data artist.^[7]

Overview

Ara was originally a computer programmer. She then studied for a Fine Art BA degree at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Ara is an elected Academician of the Royal West of England Academy.^[8] She is also a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors.^[9]

Rachel Ara has exhibited in the Barbican Centre, Whitechapel Gallery, Mall Galleries, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK.^[1] Internationally, her works have been exhibited at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea, and the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. She has an interest in data protection with respect to her works.^[10] In a 2019 interview with Vanessa Murrell from DATEAGLE ART, Ara quoted “you can’t make subtle artwork and survive”.^[11] She gives talks on her work,^{[12] [13]} including at the London Design Festival.^[14]

Education

Ara studied BA(Hons) Fine Art at Goldsmiths where she won the Neville Burston Award for the most outstanding student.^[15]

Selected exhibitions

• Vertiginous Data, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, South Korea (23 March – 28 July 2019)^[16]
• Uncanny Values – Artificial Intelligence and You, Vienna Biennale 2019, The Mak, Vienna, Austria (29 May – 6 October 2019)
• Event Two, Royal College of Art, London, UK (12–17 July 2019)
• London Design Week, V&A, London, UK (14–22 October 2019)^[17]

Works in collections

Ara's work has featured at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, including mixed reality nuns as a V&A VARI Artist in Residence.^{[18] [19]}

External links

• • • • Rachel Ara on LinkedIn

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rachel Ara – Cementing conceptual and physical layers into her practice . Dateagle Art . dateagle.art .
2. News: James . Pickford . 17 June 2018 . Artist Rachel Ara poses unsettling questions for the art world . FT Wealth . .
3. Web site: Rachel Ara . Anise Gallery . anise.gallery .
4. Web site: Rachel Ara . Second Floor Studios & Arts . UK . www.secondfloor.co.uk . 2018 .
5. Web site: The Art of Brexit . Carla . Rapoport . 29 January 2019 . .
6. Web site: Rachel Ara: Reactive Systems . Aesthetica Magazine . 15 August 2018 .
7. Book: Rachel . Ara . Tula . Giannini . Tula Giannini . Chapter 20: A Conceptual Artists Programming for Social Change . . 399–414 . 2019 . Tula . Giannini . Jonathan P. . Bowen . Jonathan Bowen . . Series on Cultural Computing . 10.1007/978-3-319-97457-6_20 . 978-3-319-97456-9 . 159042560 . 2195-9064 .
8. Web site: Rachel Ara – Academician RAW MRBS . . UK .
9. Web site: Our Sculptors – Rachel Ara MRSS . . UK .
10. Web site: As Museums Across Europe Grapple With New Data Protection Regulations, One Artist Is Pushing Them to Think Differently – The V&A's artist-in-residence, Rachel Ara, has a digital sculpture at the Whitechapel that is watching visitors' every move . Javier . Pes . 5 July 2018 . . Art World .
11. Web site: Murrell . Vanessa . 2019-03-25 . Cementing conceptual and physical layers into her practice. . 2023-01-06 . DATEAGLE ART . en-GB.
12. Web site: Thames-Side Studios Talks: Rachel Ara . 7 November 2018 . Thames-Side Studios . www.thames-sidestudios.co.uk . UK .
13. Book: Ara, Rachel . 10.14236/ewic/eva2017.67 . The Making of a Digital (Master)Piece . . . EVA London 2017 Conference Proceedings . J.P. . Bowen . Jonathan Bowen . G. . Diprose . N. . Lambert . 2017 . 327–334 . 978-1-78017-399-3 . 1477-9358 .
14. Web site: The Transubstantiation of Knowledge: Behind the work with Rachel Ara . 2019 . . www.londondesignfestival.com .
15. Web site: The Neville Burston Award for Painting. 2020-12-30. Goldsmiths, University of London. en.
16. Book: Chun, Wendy Hui Kyoung . Big Data as Drama . 88–145. Vertiginous Data . 2019 . . .
17. Web site: V&A · This Much I'm Worth. Victoria and Albert Museum. en. 2019-12-09.
18. Web site: Rachel . Feldman . 15 August 2018 . VARI Artist Rachel Ara introduces mixed reality nuns to the V&A . . VARI . UK .
19. Web site: Artist in Residence: Rachel Ara . . Victoria and Albert Museum . Victoria and Albert Museum . 15 April 2019 .