About the artist:
In her work, Rachel Hobkirk satiates a personal need to recollect memories from her adolescence. Using symbols of innocence, such as dolls and candy, she explores her sense of autonomy as a woman, passing traces of herself to these object surrogates.
Rachel Hobkirk was born in 1995 in Aberdeenshire, UK, and lives in London, UK. She graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in the UK (2023) and the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland (2017).
Hobkirk has held a solo exhibition at L.U.P.O. - Lorenzelli Projects in Milan, Italy (2023).
She has been included in group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen in Reckinghausen, Germany (2024); Guts Gallery in London, UK (2024); Hangar Y in Paris, France (2024); Hannah Barry Gallery in London, UK (2023); L.U.P.O. - Lorenzelli Projects in Milan, Italy (2023); Royal Academy of Arts in London, UK (2023), Castor Gallery in London, UK (2022); Linseed Projects in Shanghai, China (2022); and elsewhere.
Hobkirk received the Annabel Paradise Award for Painting (2023) and the Peter Rippon Travel Award (2022).
In her ongoing Doll series, Rachel Hobkirk satiates a personal need to recollect memories from her adolescence. As symbols of innocence and perfection, cute dolls can easily tip toward disgust through minor adjustments. In her latest series, Rachel Hobkirk focuses on Haribo rings—a candy little girls use to perform fake proposals—and other confections. Sweets, which are a frenzied obsession of most children, also become seductive, sticky symbols of a young girl’s emerging sexuality.More
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