RACHAEL STELLA ATTWOOD is an artist primarily influenced by words and as a life-long lover of reading she creates works inspired by and featuring literature. She currently works through mainly two mediums: Writing and Collage. In both cases appropriating excerpts from source material and found imagery, as well as writing original elements and creating layers using papers, tapes and ephemera. Working with ideas surrounding armchair travel and Psychogeography, the effect of words and imagery, and an amalgamation of time periods her works marry together the past and the present through the choices of books she uses. She further breaks the barriers of time by referencing popular culture, and her works also show an enjoyment of playing with her beloved characters; she writes new adventures for them, drops them into odd situations, she changes the gender of well-known characters and creates subversive dialogue as well as referencing things that have no place  being in the fiction. Her works are often laced with humour, and they are multi-layered and patch-worked, creating many contemplations, which Rachael purposefully hopes may have different interpretations and affects for different viewers. Thus, her works are oft nonsensical.

She is strongly interested in the reading process, the evocation of pictures from words, how the same sentence can instill something contrary to as many different people who read it- she often appropriates imagery from book-to-film adaptations as well as casting actors to play her characters. Her work also plays with the look and feel of words on a page, therefore her work takes form through anything from cardboard-collaged dioramas of varying scale, 2D collages with text to physical, tactile books- and as Rachael is whole-heartedly a bibliophile this latter manifestation feels most appropriate.