Biography
Rachel McDonnell is a painter whose preoccupations include light, and our experiences of it, optical trickery, pattern and paying homage to the minutiae/neglected things of life through the medium of painting. Beyond that she has interests in philosophy and politics, feminism and the environment, amongst other things, all of which feed into her work. She tries to amalgamate thoughts and ideas about art and the world into something which draws the viewer in, and might lead them to appreciate the work as an object in itself, and also to think about both the work and its subject.
Her recent work is focused on the creation of a three dimensional space by means of only the simplest two dimensional shapes: circles and rectangles, resulting in op-art type paintings, which throw the eye and fuddle the brain.
