Manchester
School of Art
MA Show
2013
Fri 27 September —
Sun 13 October
10.00—16.00hrs
An exhibition of work
by postgraduate
students of —
- Architecture & Urbanism
- Art As Environment
- Design
- Design & Art Direction
- Filmmaking
- Fine Art
- Landscape Architecture
- Media Arts
- Photography
- Textiles
- Three Dimensional Design
- Visual Culture
Rachel Lee
Rachel Lee is a surface pattern designer who has spent her time on the MA exploring and pushing the boundaries of her practice. In July 2013 Rachel completed her largest installation to date for the Manchester International Festival. Working with a furniture company she designed colourful spherical hanging forms made from MDF, using a CNC router to apply surface pattern. It is through live briefs such as this and experimenting with diverse materials that her practice has evolved into being multifaceted and considered. She has taken these new skills and applied them to her biggest passion, surface pattern for interior products.
Rachel has created a design collection that expresses her personality and interests. This body of work intended to be commercial, encourages a connection with the consumer through storytelling and interaction. She has drawn animals with distinct personalities and created a world in which they exist. Photography is an important element in her work and draws on the run down and derelict areas of Manchester, photos have been taken of these environments and then digitally manipulated to create something new - a way of finding new purpose for forgotten corners of the city.
Her work invites the audience to question what it is they are looking at, to explore the narrative that runs through the designs. Offering deeper connection by allowing the consumer to decide how each narrative should end.
