Rachel Busby
Paintings 2022
Paintings 2021
Reverse Paintings
Pilfer Paintings
Prescience Paintings
Vessel Paintings
Memory Paintings
Memory Paintings
Virgin, 2013
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 41 cm, 14 x 16 in
Window, 2013
Acrylic on canvas
51 x 72 cm, 20 x 28 in
Sunday afternoon, Anna described the film “Carrie” in such detail I never had to watch it
- we were learning to roller stake at the time, 2014
Acrylic on canvas
35.5 x 41 cm, 14 x 16 in
Menir’s Sister witnessed the strangest thing, 2013
Acrylic on canvas,
35.5 x 40.5 cm, 14 x 16 in
Uber Wheels, 2014
Acrylic on canvas
31 x 31 cm, 12 x 12 in
Every day is a different day (II), 2014
Acrylic on canvas
25.5 x 25.5 cm, 10 x 10 in
Reaching Out, 2013
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 41 cm, 14 x 16 in
Ship arriving too late, 2014
Acrylic on canvas,
31 x 36 cm, 12 x 14 in
Every day is a different day (III), 2014
Acrylic on canvas
51 x 41 cm, 20 x 16 in
Norwegian Wood, 2014
Acrylic on canvas
25.5 x 41 cm, 10 x 16 in
Dancer looked up at the stars, 2014
Acrylic on canvas
31 x 36 cm, 12 x14 in
She's busy, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
31 x 36 cm, 12 x 14 in
Under the sea role play crab, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
31 x 36 cm, 12 x 14 in
Strength of two horses, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
41 x 51 cm, 16 x 20 in
The Globe, Tools I, 2013
both Acrylic on canvas
36 x 31 cm, 14 x 12 in
Pool Table, 2013
Acrylic on canvas
27 x 31 cm, 10 x 12 in
Sunday Radio, 2014
Acrylic on canvas
31 x 41 cm, 12 x 16 in
Black Stallion, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
51 x 41 cm, 20 x 16 in
Sunday Radio, 2014
Acrylic on canvas
31 x 41 cm, 12 x 16 in
Being watched at the museum, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 32 cm, 14 x 12 in
I'll call you tomorrow, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
51 x 41 cm, 20 x 16 in
Tree of life V, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 32 cm, 14 x 12 in
Tree of life IV, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
51 x 41 cm, 20 x 16 in
About the works
Drawing from personal references, I question how time effects our perception of a memory. How our memories are triggered and if at all, how affecting are they. I piece together a painting with this in mind. I remember notable phases, certain locations, people and curious moments. Like a sliding scale, time affects the outcome. A different history in the making.
These works are work grounded in memory, nostalgia and a sense of place; each in their own way, appearing to weave a tentative path that fluctuates between representation and abstraction.
Drawing references from rich personal histories and the powerful agency of particular objects, locations and narratives. Rather than coalesce into tangible landscapes, interiors or still life imagery however, these allusions are fragmented, mapped out and reworked to capture an essence within their subject’s origin - as opposed a direct representation in paint. Alternative vocabularies are built through recurrent motifs, compositional structures and a layering of gesture, form, colour and surface.