RACHAEL ADDIS EXHIBITION LOWRY HOTEL

'COMME CA ART at THE LOWRY HOTEL'

New Paintings by Rachael Addis

Lowry Hotel, 50 Dearmans Place, Salford, Manchester, M3 5LH

Exhibition Dates: 30.07.26 - 22.09.26

Rachael Addis is a contemporary painter based at Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester. She completed a Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy Schools, London, and has exhibited nationally and internationally for over 20 years.

Her commissions include an eight-metre mural at the entrance to Manchester’s Co-op Live arena, large-scale works for Six Senses Hotel London, and paintings for the Joyce Wang Suite at The Whitley Hotel. Her work is held in prestigious collections including Harrods VIP Lounge, KPMG and The OWO Hotel, and she has collaborated with clients such as Madri Beer. Her paintings have also been featured in Harper’s Bazaar and Flux Magazine. In 2020, Rachael appeared as a featured artist in the BBC documentary on the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

Having spent her formative years between the Lake District and Asia, Rachael continues to draw inspiration from both landscapes and cultures. These influences are reflected in her intuitive painting process, distinctive colour palettes and layered abstract compositions.

Alongside her studio practice, Rachael is a qualified Art and Design teacher with over 20 years’ experience. She is Artist in Residence at Delamere School, specialising in creative practice with children and young people with special educational needs, where she has developed a reputation as a leading practitioner in inclusive arts education.

"Materiality sits at the heart of my practice, shaping process and mark-making. My paintings are built through layered applications of acrylic, spray paint, and drawn interventions made using found tools, paint pens, and everyday objects rather than traditional brushes. These materials leave visible traces of pressure, repetition, and movement, recording the physical act of making as much as the image itself.

My process is both meditative and compulsive. Through sustained, repetitive gestures, painting becomes an immersive dialogue between hand, material, and surface, pushing me physically and mentally while allowing each work to evolve slowly. Each piece gradually emerging after prolonged, focussed, engagement rather than from predetermined outcomes.

Having spent my formative years between the Lake District and Asia, I continue to draw inspiration from the landscapes, cultures, and sensory experiences of both places. Botanical forms, shifting environments, and memories of place permeate the work, informing a visual language that moves between abstraction and landscape.

These processes began as a healing act following the loss of my sister who was a landscape architect. I started painting in her garden to work through my loss, in her environment - a contemplative place to pause for thought and connected to her and our nomadic upbringing.

My focus on making visually beautiful work with underlying backstories has continued in recent landscape work that has emerged through listening to harrowing stories of refugees fleeing through beautiful terrains to escape the traumas of their home countries.

Whether working en plein air or in the studio, my practice remains deeply connected to observation, movement, and the rhythms of the natural world. Time, memory, and place pulse quietly beneath the painted surface, creating atmospheric works that balance instinct with intention and invite contemplation, connection, and presence.

"The layers of an artwork are an ecology of memory” Hélia Marçal" Rachael Addis

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