Rachel Marchbank is a multi-disciplinary artist working with painting, installation, performance, video and photography. Her research is informed by socially engaged practice that addresses accessibility in contemporary art. Her recent work grounded in the desire to build genuine connections between herself, the viewer, and the communities that form around shared creative experiences.

Creating art allows her to share what she enjoys: the media she is consuming from popular culture, the ideas she is exploring, and the small obsessions that shape her days. In revealing these personal fascinations, she depicts a wide range of familiar, uncanny imagery and points of reference to the viewer, inviting them into her world with openness and honesty.

Marchbank explores hierarchy and the mutual importance of the viewer and the artist, by inviting audiences to participate and create their own work using similar materials and images. This relational approach encourages viewers to re-evaluate the value of art making by creating works that are small, mass-produced and free. She encourages people to take or add to the works to enhance their significance as keepsakes, linking people experiences to the objects.