"Rachael’s works are ruminations on the sensuous and vibrant places we experience privately, and collectively. Her paintings and drawings are centred upon the natural world and its inhabitants; dormant landscapes are reawakened and familiar objects are given a new semblance. Her everyday intimacy with landscapes and surfaces rings through her work in the mark-making and understanding of material. She explores and teases the edges of the physical and perceived boundaries of the human and non-human - and, the obscure 'thin' spaces between."
Rachael Kidd is an artist based in Sheffield where she divides her time between her studio, working as a freelance gardener, and exploring the Peak. Before settling in Sheffield she lived for four years on the remote Scottish peninsula of Ardnamurchan. She studied Fine Art at Newcastle upon Tyne and graduated in 2013. She was born in 1991 and grew up in a small village in Warwickshire.
16th - 17th Sep 2022 . "Midnight Juice Box" (group show) . Womp Space . Sheffield
Apr - Sep 2022 . "Flower Power!", Creative Arts and Mental Health and Wellbeing with the Royal Horticultural Society and
ORB Community Arts . Harlow Carr . Harrowgate
Aug 2021 . Visiting Artist and drawing workshop in the Nidd Valley for "A Forest" . ORB Community Arts . Knaresborough
Apr 2021 . Selected Artist for the Urban Tree Festival 2021 . Hogarth's House . London
Jul 2020 . Guest artist and speaker for Sheffield Tree Week . Sheffield
Jun - Sep 2020 . "Wild Edges" (collaborative installation and film) Festival of The Mind 2020 . The Millenium Gallery . Sheffield
May 2020 . Engagement Artist in Yorkshire Sculpture International . Sheffield
Mar 2020 . Artist in Residence on The Island Residency . Kelham Island . Sheffield
15th Mar 2020 . "Animal Party" (group show) . Victoria Works . Sheffield
27th Dec 2019 . "Spegilmynd" (group show) . SÍM Residency . Reykjavík . Iceland
Dec 2019 . Artist in Residence at SÍM Artist Residency, Iceland
5th - 19th Dec 2019 . "Bethlehem Boys Club" (group show) . Sidney & Matilda . Sheffield
1st - 31st Dec 2019 ."Reflections" (solo show) . Nostell Priory . National Trust . Yorkshire
8th Nov 2019 - 4th Jan 2020 . "OPEN OUT / OPEN IN" (solo show) . Kendal Mountain Festival . The Brewery Arts Centre . Kendal
20th Sep - 4th Oct 2019 . "On The Surface of Things" (group show) . Access Space . Sheffield
2019 . Received a Yorkshire & Humber Visual Arts Network 2019 grant for practice development
2019 . Artist collaboration with performer and writer Andy Owen Cook and Pit Sense
7th - 8th Sep 2019 . "Art in the Gardens "(group show) . Sheffield Botanical Gardens + Sidney & Matilda
Mar - Aug 2019 . "A Lump of Clay" Engagement Artist for Yorkshire Sculpture International . Urban House . Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery, The Hepworth Wakefield, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park . Wakefield
9th May - 5th Jun 2019 . "Everythingeatingitself" (solo show) . The Tramshed + Create Coffee . Sheffield
28th - 31st Mar 2019 . "We’re Never Doing This Again" (group show) . Sidney & Matilda . Sheffield
20th - 23rd Dec 2018 . "Bethlehem Boys Club" (group show) . Sidney & Matilda . Sheffield
3rd Nov 2018 . "Listen See Do" (group show) . The Foodhall . Sheffield
22nd Jul - 16th Sep . 2017 . "High Summer Exhibition" (group show) . The Stour Gallery . Warwickshire
27th May - 15th Jun 2017 . "Early Summer Exhibition" (group show) . The Stour Gallery . Warwickshire
May 2017 . Artist in Residence at Learning Stone . Tout Quarry . Portland . Dorset
10th Mar - 30th May 2017 . "Tree" (group show) . The Stour Gallery . Warwickshire
20th Feb – 3rd Mar 2017 . "The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition" and winner of 'The Young Artist Award' . The Mall Galleries . London
18th Nov 2016 – 3rd Mar 2017 . "Winter Exhibition" (group show) . The Stour Gallery . Warwickshire
2014-17 . Lived and worked on the Ardnamurchan peninsula on the west coast of Scotland
2013-14 . Held a studio space at The Newbridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne
Sep 2014 . Artist Residency and member of the creative initiative: "The Wild Project" in the Czech Republic
2nd - 3rd Aug 2013 . "Art in the Home" (group show) . Contemporary Art Society | North
25th Apr – 17th May 2013 . "Eulogy" (group show) . Lume Projects . Vane . Newcastle
10th - 27th Jan 2014 . "Re-Wilding" (group show) . Xero, Kline & Coma . London
2010-14 . Printing Assistant at Hole Editions (Master Lithographer, Lee Turner) . Newcastle upon Tyne
17th - 24th Aug 2013 . "Vstíc Divoin" - Towards Wildness (group show) . Meeting in Zdoñov . Zdoñov . Czech Republic
2009-13 . Fine Art BA Honours Degree, Newcastle University
26th - 29th Jun 2013 . "Newcastle Fine Art Degree Show" (group show) . Embassy Tea Gallery . London
31st May - 14th Jun 2013 . "Newcastle Fine Art Degree Show" . Newcastle University Fine Art Department . Newcastle upon Tyne
21st - 27th Mar 2013 . "A Fraction of the Whole" (group show) . Hold Tight . Newcastle upon Tyne
