Friday saw the highly anticipated launch of Rachael Coward’s exhibition – Something Lost, Something Found.
Something Lost, Something Found is an exhibition of sculpture, ceramics & prints inspired by exploring rural identity, memory, and the thresholds between loss and discovery.
Esteemed guests and colleagues were invited to the preview, held in the Heseltine Gallery. To see Rachael’s work, displayed in 2D and 3D formats. The space adapted perfectly with beautiful natural light and crisp white backgrounds, to show off a collection of pieces months in the making.
Rachael has been Truro School’s Artist-in-Residence whilst also working in the school’s art department with pupils. The exhibition highlights the works that have evolved during her residency.
Rachael studied Fine Art A-Level in Somerset and then moved to Falmouth, where she first did a year-long foundation course and then a degree in Fine Art. This cemented her career in art and her love of Cornwall. She is a former Co-Director of CAMP, a member-led network for Devon and Cornwall’s creative and visual arts community. She is also an art educator and facilitator, frequently working with young people and families. She has recently worked with Tate, Milton Keynes Arts Centre and the South-West Heritage Trust.
She has said “I work across installation, printmaking and book works, and my interests lie in heritage, language, thresholds and place. I create environments and interventions that extend and alter a space’s intended uses, drawing on discrepancies uncovered and inventing possibilities for its future. Place, and more specifically rurality is at the heart of my work. I use my practice to explore my sense of identity as a woman living and working in rural Cornwall. I have been creating monuments to my lived experience based on thresholds and markers I have been finding in everyday settings and extracting them, placing them into new contexts and transforming them. Duality is also a key theme in my work, and I enjoy exploring the grey area that sits in, around and between opposing forces; full/empty, internal/external, presence/absence, analogue/digital. My work is process-driven, meaning that I won’t often know the outcome of a piece of work until it is being made. I am inspired from what I see and find around me, then use this as a starting point to play with materials and processes until something clicks and go from there”.
The exhibition is open to the public from Saturday 6th September – Sunday 5th October 2025, weekends from 10am-3pm.
Find out more about the exhibition on the Heseltine website HERE
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