Thatch

About

Rachael Causer is an artist whose sculpture and drawing explores traces of touch, repeated activity and labour embodied in everyday objects.
 
The works in Thatch explore elements of domestic architecture, building methods and materials, focussing particularly on coverings – cladding, thatched roofs, upholstery, pipes and lagging. 

Fragmented forms are seen ‘back to front or inside out’ and traces of familiar objects are rendered uncanny. Working with plaster and fabrics, Causer constructs moulds and casts their internal spaces, exploring negative space as a form of 3-dimensional printmaking, before peeling back layers to excavate the interior and to reveal new structures and surfaces. Soft blanketed forms reveal seams and brittle edges.
 
From an interest in how the spaces we reside in accumulate memories and become the repositories of emotional history: her works explore place and time. Surfaces embodying history, the accruing of marks and layers revealing evidence of use and process, man-made and otherwise. 
 
‘I make sculpture as a way of thinking about physical encounters with objects in the world and my work is about this relationship and material conversation. I enjoy operating in the slippery ground between knowing and not knowing what something is’.