Rachel Sommer is an emerging artist who started her art career through graffiti and muralism in Australia. From then on, she has been dedicated full time to develop herself technically and conceptually. Without formal education in arts, Sommer shows a great dedication into fantasy and dark art, building step by step her alternative paths through the art world.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Casting highlights on each body of work to pierce the shadows that shrouds each of her subjects, Rachel focuses on finding balance of darkness and light. She uses sadness, rejection, manipulation, and heartbreak as a cornerstone to each artwork but to also show light breaking through and to give a sense of regaining strength. Like any artist, her process of making artwork is messy. Experimenting with different mediums, she creates a story and an entire world around her subject; Inviting you in and making you question what has happened to this person to cause such pain? Where are they going from here? Most people have a cornerstone of some traumatic experience or suffering of some kind. Rachel works to provide an insight into that dark place and provides a glimmer of hope and a sense of regaining strength. Always remember how far you have come.

After her residency period, Rachel showed her painting and illustration works  at the September Open Studio to share and exchange processes with the artists Piotr Skowron and Damian Idzikowzki (Poland) and guest artist David Pimentel Segura (Peru).