Rachel Hope Allan is an artist, educator and writer from New Zealand currently based in Ōtepoti Dunedin. She is a Principal Lecturer and studio coordinator in Photography at New Zealand's oldest art school, Dunedin School of Art. Her complicated relationship with photography has had her hiding from mountain lions, x-raying New Zealand's most critically endangered native wildlife and developing tintypes in the basements of historic houses. Her practice extends from first-generation, traditional, darkroom-based processes through to digital and hybridised liquid photography.
Highlights
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Just Like Silk Velvet, Art Attic Gallery, Invercargill
2023
Just Like the Movies, fe29, Ōtepoti Dunedin
2022
Not just another Shinjuku Love Hotel, RDS Gallery, Ōtepoti Dunedin
2018
inbred & spoonfed, Robert Piggott Gallery, Ōtepoti Dunedin
Group Exhibitions
2023/2024
OPEN, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
2023
The National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Kirikiriroa Hamilton
GIFT, Ashburton Public Art Gallery, Hakatere Ashburton
Postcards From Europe, Art at the ARB, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
2022
The National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Kirikiriroa Hamilton
