Rachel Bywaters
Gamilaroi artist living on Kabi Kabi Country
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About My Practice
I am a multidisciplinary artist with cultural connections to Gamilaroi Country, working across printmaking, papermaking, jewellery, sculpture, and installation.
Grounded in my lived experience of decolonisation and personal deconstruction, my arts practice engages the pushing of materials and processes as an act of resistance to colonial ideologies that have diminished Indigenous ways of being and doing.
In doing so, I reposition and centre First Nations knowledge systems, working with native grasses as symbols of knowledge held within Country itself, enacting return and cultural reclamation for my ancestors.
“The best artists tend to be the ones with the most sensitive antennae to draw in the energy resonating at a particular moment."
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“The best artists tend to be the ones with the most sensitive antennae to draw in the energy resonating at a particular moment." *
— Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
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