Rachel Mortlock

Rachel Mortlock is a London-based artist exploring space and built environments, focusing on architectural components and infrastructure through a compulsive repetition of materials, patterns and grids.

Bringing together dysfunctional cast objects that emanate familiarity she constructs systems eluding functional processes instead centralising on the interaction and honesty between the materials themselves.

Mortlock graduated from Arts University Bournemouth in 2018. She has exhibited in Systems We Have at New Art Projects London, in 2022.

Instagram: @rachmortlock

Website: www.rachelmortlock.com

object | multiple editions:

Party Mix, 2022

Sweet Embrace, 2022

Almost Strangers, 2024

Rachel Mortlock

Sweet Embrace, 2022

Jesmonite biscuits and case, with laser cut MDF inset

15.2cm x 2.4cm x 15.2cm

Edition of 10 + 2 Artists Proofs

£65 each

Sweet Embrace is a biscuit selection box that has evolved from collaborative processes within Mortlock's practice. Working as part of a collective, food became a staple at meetings, gatherings and exhibition installations, gradually shifting into the artwork itself. Colours in the work, which come into new combinations making each edition unique, come from a regular palette found in Mortlock's installations and works with architectural details.

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Rachel Mortlock

Party Mix, 2022

Jesmonite biscuits and case, with laser cut MDF inset

15.2cm x 2.4cm x 15.2cm

Edition of 10 + 2 Artists Proofs

£65 each

Party Mix is the second iteration of Mortlock's biscuit selection boxes, continuing the artist's interest in the social uses of food in her work in artists collectives. In this work a new generation of biscuits replace the classics of Sweet Embrace, in a gesture that recalls seasonal assortment boxes. Colours in this work, continue to be drawn from a regular palette found in Mortlock's installations and works with architectural details.

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Rachel Mortlock

Almost Strangers, 2024

Jesmonite, MDF, Plywood and Perspex

18cm x 14cm x 5.5cm

Edition of 8 + 1 Artists Proof

£85 each

Mortlock's recent work has focused on how both furniture and food can form platforms for social exchange and conversation. This work, Almost Strangers, is her third multiple of familiar foods which have evolved from collaborations within her practice. The cast sweets reflect upon food's playfulness, implying narratives of childhood encounter and shared experience, encouraging playful exchange among friends.

This work includes 40 cast pigs encased in a sweet bag box, which has been laser cut by the artist.

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