Your View 7 | Rachel Moodie

Rachel’s background is in graphic and web design, arts marketing, gallery management, curation, illustration agency management and event co-ordination.

She has a BFA from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW and The University of Ulster in Belfast Northern Ireland, and Graphic Design qualifications from Shillington College, Sydney.

She has been an exhibiting artist since 2007 with shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and other regional areas of Australia. Her works are held in private collections in Australia and overseas.

In 2017 she published a book on motherhood and creativity called 'The Artful Mum' which is a series of interviews with fabulous artist mothers.

She lives in the Southern Highlands of NSW with her husband, 2 children, puppy and 8 chickens.

Your View

Everyone has a place they go when they need to connect with the sublime, something grander, or simply be in ‘nature’. These views are inspired by my view - a cliff on Gundungurra land in the Southern Highlands of NSW. A view I visited with a friend who passed too soon.

These landscapes are pieced together from memories. They are my way of making sense of what does not make sense. Disparate ideas and feelings, rough marks, mixtures of media, uncontained edges are boxed into frames. Tended and tamed.

These artworks are my attempt to create order in chaos, to make sense of the dichotomies and all the conflicting emotions of ‘adult’ life. I wish to convey a sense of autonomous place and a sense of peace within it.

These landscapes are containers. Containers for thought and emotion to sit inside the everyday. They are boundless and unlimited but cut to size, cut to fit, bounded and boxed. Fitting all the grand feelings inside a box.

My views inform my work. BUT take one home and name it after yourself or a loved one. Take my view and make it yours - give it significance and meaning by naming it after someone special. That could be you or a loved one.

Rachel Moodie, 2024.

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