Image: Mark Storor, A Tender Subject, Artangel 2012
Photo: Stephen King
Photo: Stephen King
Rachel Anderson is an artist and creative producer based in UK. She and Cis O'Boyle are the co-founders and caretakers of idle women - an art and social justice project formed to create inspired, vibrant and adventurous spaces with women and girls in places where they are least imagined.
Rachel spent 8 years at Artangel as Producer, Collaborative Projects where she developed site-specific works with artists in collaboration with a broad range of communities. Projects include Did you kick the foot that kicked you? By Ruth Ewan which involved the co-ordination of a hundred musicians along the City of London commuter routes, The Museum of Non Participation by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler who worked with collaborators in London and in Karachi and included the production of an English/Urdu newspaper with the Daily Jang Broadsheet distributed to 60,000 European readers and Smother by Sarah Cole, developed with young parents and culminating in a performed installation in a three sided house in Kings Cross. March 2012 saw the culmination of a three year project with Mark Storor who worked with gay prisoners and prison officers across the UK to develop a tender subject - a live devised performance in a dis-used cold storage unit below Smithfield meat market.
Rachel was previously Education and Outreach Manager at the South London Gallery where she established a programme of on and off-site artists' collaborations with the local community, including long term collaborations with Creative Routes, VAPA, and Sceaux Gardens Estate residents. Before this she managed the Queensbridge Youth Project in Hackney where she set up the Childrens Fund Local Providers Network and worked with Immediate Theatre to develop the Queensbridge Community Arts Partnership.
Rachel produces projects that manifest in a range of different sites and situations and in varying forms including film, installation, performance, literature and public interventions.
Rachel spent 8 years at Artangel as Producer, Collaborative Projects where she developed site-specific works with artists in collaboration with a broad range of communities. Projects include Did you kick the foot that kicked you? By Ruth Ewan which involved the co-ordination of a hundred musicians along the City of London commuter routes, The Museum of Non Participation by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler who worked with collaborators in London and in Karachi and included the production of an English/Urdu newspaper with the Daily Jang Broadsheet distributed to 60,000 European readers and Smother by Sarah Cole, developed with young parents and culminating in a performed installation in a three sided house in Kings Cross. March 2012 saw the culmination of a three year project with Mark Storor who worked with gay prisoners and prison officers across the UK to develop a tender subject - a live devised performance in a dis-used cold storage unit below Smithfield meat market.
Rachel was previously Education and Outreach Manager at the South London Gallery where she established a programme of on and off-site artists' collaborations with the local community, including long term collaborations with Creative Routes, VAPA, and Sceaux Gardens Estate residents. Before this she managed the Queensbridge Youth Project in Hackney where she set up the Childrens Fund Local Providers Network and worked with Immediate Theatre to develop the Queensbridge Community Arts Partnership.
Rachel produces projects that manifest in a range of different sites and situations and in varying forms including film, installation, performance, literature and public interventions.
