Rachel is an emerging artist who has been working in Screen Dance and installation for sometime.  She was an Elevator Artist at New Moves in Glasgow and screened ‘Refraction a screen dance installation at The National Review of Live Art, New Territories, Elevator following her first class degree in Dance and Visual Art from Brighton University.  She was a finalist in experimental film in the Dazed and Confused D&AD New Blood Awards in 2003.  Rachel has worked with Liz Aggiss and Billie Cowie on the Arts Council’s Dance for Screen ‘Capture Series’. Rachel was second camera on Anarchic Variations and she also worked with the team filming The Men in the Wall, a four-screen 3-dimensional stereoscopic screen dance installation a pioneering work that has won numerous awards and been shown worldwide.

Rachel’s dance film work has been screened at Norwich Arts Centre and the Short and Sweet Festival London and the most recently her integrated film and live performance work has been shown at the Autumn Festival of Norfolk in 2023 and 2024. These works have been created from a continuous strand of her weekly artistic practice. Rachel’s current investigation is LANDINGS, it is a reflection of over ten years of working with the moving body through film and photography.  LANDINGS is the foundation for her new piece she is hoping to introduce soon.  

Rachel is the Artistic Director of Copperdot Studio in Norwich. Copperdot is a place to bring together numerous strands of creative practice.  Rachel has commercial experience in film, she has also worked as a photographic director and creative director in photography, and has managed many large advertising accounts for the trade and publishers worldwide.

Rachel has a deep interest in the body, architecture, installation, film and sound. Her processes have always had a longterm vision. Rachels passion is creative direction, she studied at Leeds College of Art and Design, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and Brighton University in Dance and Visual Art and The Brighton Film School in film direction. Rachel was a competitive gymnast, her movement language seen in her dance work draws from this training.  Her love for movement is supported with a thorough understanding of the body,  Rachel is physiotherpist with a specific focus on training for performance.  Her expertise in this area spans over 12 years, she has worked at the Centre of Advanced Training at Dance East and is now working at individual company level supporting the creation and direction of training movement specific to performance.  Her love for creative direction means that even the content of the choreography and the training principles used to facilitate preparation for perfomance is investigated when making work.  

Rachel has been fortunate to be taught by Carol Brown, Annie Pui Ling Lok, Charlie Morrisey and Liz Aggiss and was later taught by Franz von Habsburg FBKS at the Brighton Film School on a year, long Graduate Diploma in film, she also worked with the Brighton Film School and the Northern Film School on a variety of productions.

Rachel is inviting artists and creators at particular stages in their career to explore their journeys together.  She is mentoring artists to make work and investigate their practice, she is supporting others with creative direction and new work is being made on site.  Rachel is now expanding her practice and working from Copperdot, finally, bringing these experiences together.