School of Fine Art Sculpture & Environmental Art
Rachel Hughes
Rachel is a mixed-media artist of Scottish Malaysian heritage, whose work delves deeply into her cultural background. She blends the aesthetics of both cultures, exploring the places where they intersect and overlap. Recently, her focus has been on maps, map-making, and the concept of psychogeography, using these themes to examine identity and place. In her studio, Rachel works with casting and textiles, experimenting with materials and processes to merge them in innovative ways. The final pieces often take sculptural or installation forms, with an emphasis on scale. Rachel’s art is profoundly personal, serving as a means to explore and understand her multifaceted identity on a deeper level.
Works
Of Two Lands
Of Two Lands is a visual representation on dual heritage and the shifting sense of home. Rooted in the artist’s Malaysian and Scottish identities, the work navigates the emotional geography of belonging, memory, and place. Through pieces like Safe Houses and My World Map, the project reflects on what it means to live between cultures — to carry more than one history, more than one language of home. Each work becomes a point on a personal map, marking spaces of refuge, displacement, and identity. Of Two Lands invites viewers to consider the quiet complexities of cultural inheritance and the ways we anchor ourselves across distance and difference.
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