Rachel Jessie-Rae O'Connor

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Glitter Eyes: This two-year series came about as a consequence of Rachel’s discovery of hyper-materials in the world of craft shops: glitter paint, glow-in-the dark paint, false gold leaf, gold glitter scatters and transparent medium. In the works in this show Rachel explores and returns to a number of different pictorial motifs: orphic rondels, narrative and synthetic landscapes, and non-objective studies where the micro-optics of the glitter and reflective media take over. With the later works she became interested in the natural “glitter” effects of phosphenes - those non-optical visual effects you see with your eyes closed, or when your brain’s misbehaving.

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