Rachel Naughton

CMYK screen print on paper . Dimensions: 35x41cm.

'Wander' was shown at Graphic Studio Gallery as part of their winter show 'On the Grand Canal', a reflection on the canals of the surrounding area. This print captures the moment of a wandering mind when losing yourself in the reflection of the top of the water.

CMYK Screen print on paper. Dimensions: 32x28cm.

‘On The Way’ was shown as part of Graphic Studio Dublin's member show 'Returning Home' (2022) at CHQ Dublin, Ireland. This show was in collaboration with Simon Communities and was on the theme of returning home. This print aims to capture the anticipation you feel on the journey home. The familiarity of the same bus ride you take every day, reflecting on what weighs on your mind as you look out the window, knowing soon you will be home.

Etching, Aquatint on paper. Dimensions: 26x29cm.

This print was shown as part of the RHA's 192nd Annual Exhibition (2022).

‘Wake’ is a video piece that centers itself around climate anxiety. This piece aims to resonate these intense feelings of anxiety and helplessness for the Earth and humanity. This piece attempts to portray the haunting feeling the artist experiences in relation to climate issues. An interest in how we go about our routines, so preoccupied that we can’t think about the scale of things outside ourselves most of the time. However there is also the reality of how things play in our subconscious, that tends to break through when we have too long with our thoughts, or as a nightmare when we sleep.

Shown as part of 'In Cahoots with the Earth', atA4 Sounds gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2021).

Screen print on paper. Dimensions: 32x28cm

‘Aurora’ was shown as part of Graphic Studio Dublin's member show 'The Art of Home', at CHQ Dublin, Ireland (2021). This show was a collaboration with Simon Communities, and explored themes of what home is. This piece aims to portray the feeling of relief and comfort that can be felt when you finally get to sleep; an escape from reality, a space to dream.

Screen print on paper. Dimensions: 38x46cm.

Shown as part of Graphic Studio Dublin's 'Diamond Point' exhibition (2020). A portrayal of the accumulation of time that is shown through the breakdown of rocks in this imagery.

Split-screen moving image piece.

‘Meeting Point’ displays the coming together of multiple temporalities in one place.

The presence of the viewer suspended in a moment of observation, accompanied with a sense of waiting created by the symbol of the train tracks. The element of man-made time presented by the interval of the routine passage of a train. Along with the contrasting imagery of deep time throughout the video; portrayed in the constant movements of the tide.

Shown as part of my degree show at The National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland (2019).

‘Linger’ highlights the monotony of the human experience of time. The endless cycle of days that is our life is mirrored in this never-ending footage from the window of a DART. Never losing sight of the ocean as a symbol for the deeper sense of time we exist within.

Shown as part of my degree show at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland (2019).

A selection of photographs capturing the ever-changing beach terrain as a result of the routine movement of tides.

06:12 min
No sound
Filmed on Sandymount beach, Dublin.

‘S(l)eep’ records the gradual seeping of water towards the shore as it is transitioning from low to high tide. A state of transformation, slowly and then all at once, as if falling into a deep sleep.

07:46 min
No sound
Shot at Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.

‘Passage’ displays the coming together of multiple temporalities in one place.
The presence of the viewer suspended in a moment of observation, accompanied with a sense of waiting created by the symbol of the train tracks.
There is an interjection of man-made time presented by the interval of the routine passage of a train.
Lastly there is the constant presence of deep time throughout the video, embedded in the crashing of the waves, the changing light or a light breeze.

Screen print on paper

‘Rinse, Repeat’ is a series of screen prints. Using digital processes, a series of stills were taken from a video of the ocean and were manipulated to create one image containing an accumulation of frozen moments in time. The image was formatted to be printed indefinitely through the repetition of the screen printing process. Accumulating endlessly as with time itself.

10:31min
No sound
Filmed on Sandymount beach, Dublin.

‘Tide’ follows the slow creep of the tide along the terrain of the beach. As the camera moves it explores the changing imprints left over time; evidence of a past presence held by the sand.
Along with the routine ebb and flow of the tide, there is an inherent sense of deep time linked to the tides as they are controlled by the moon. There is an allusion to this visually within the video as comparisons can be drawn from both the beach and lunar landscapes.

07:17 min
no sound

The human experience of time is one wrapped in routine. We get caught up in the repetitive day-to-day occurrences that make up our existence, that we forget everything that exists outside our bubble. ‘Day after day after day after day aft-’ establishes that sense of routine through the layering of tracking shots from a DART window. Footage of the ocean interjects the routine as a reminder of something bigger.

Image of wave screen-printed onto glass

Looped video piece.
Filmed in Howth, Dublin.
‘Maritime’ demonstrates the contrast between Human and earth time. This is shown by the juxtaposition of the constant waves with the repeated interjection of the man-made timing of the lighthouse light.

3min loop
‘Afloat’ was shot at Dublin port, Ireland.

The video establishes a sense of suspended temporality. There is a meditative quality to the video developed by the repetitive, looping imagery. The buoy, A frail evidence of humanity existing on the surface of the unimaginable depth and continuous time that is represented by the body of water.

Photocopies of folded etchings on transparent paper

This piece of work was shown as part of the 'New Age' exhibition at the creative life studio in St. James' hospital, Dublin, Ireland (2018).

The exhibition was a result of working with MISA (Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing). This piece was made with the intention of dissemination as viewers were invited to rip a sheet off the stack. Exploring ideas of memories and influence on the lives of others; passing parts of ourselves onto each other. precious fragments to be cherished but often lost with age.

A series of 100 etched objects; exhibited as part of ‘Always Read the Fine Print’ in Mart Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.

Exploration of an accumulation and repetition of everyday tasks and routine through repetitive actions and multiples.