Passing Through

Rachel Farlow’s work centres on abstract painting, integrating casual gestures and more formal lines to suggest a deceptively rigorous exploration of the painting medium. Although working in the modernist tradition of abstraction, Farlow’s work has more in common with contemporary artists such as Mary Heilmann and Gemma Smith, whose paintings evince an effortless charm, combining unusual colour arrangements, subtle gestures, and allusions to high and low cultural tropes. Signs of deterioration and temporality feature in many of Farlow’s works, in which reflections of the natural world intermingle with intuitive explorations of colour and form.