CURRICULUM VITAE
Rachel Fallon
www.rachelfallon.com
Rachel Fallon is a Dublin based visual artist who deals with themes of protection and defence in domestic realms and addresses the topic of motherhood and women’s relationships to society.
Her work encompasses sculpture, drawing, photography and performance and is firmly rooted in the processes of making. As well as an individual practice, she regularly collaborates with international artists and collectives; including The Artists ‘Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, Desperate Artwives, Grrrl Zine Fair and the Magdalene Series.
The two disparate ways of working feed into one another and are therefore equally important parts of her practice. Her work is held in public and private collections including the Arts Council of Ireland Collection, IMMA, the National Museum of Ireland, and the Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warsawie.
Forthcoming Exhibitions
On Art and Motherhood, Hayward Gallery Touring group show opening at MAC Birmingham June 2024, curated by Hettie Judah.
The Map / New Work– Rachel Fallon, Alice Maher , I.A.C., New York, NYC, Sept 2024
RHA Annual Exhibition, invited artist, RHA, Dublin, May 2024
HomeWork / HouseWork , Glandwr curated by Debi Paul
Thread of Life, Draíocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown curated by Sharon Murphy, Dec 2024
Faust, ACC Weimar, Germany curated by Knut Birkholz, April 2025
Portraits in Cloth, Royal West of England Academy curated by Alice Kettle, Kathryn Johnson
Recent Exhibitions and Commissions
To Never Look Away, Tøn Gallery, Templebar, curated by Claire Halpin
Jelen Van / Adsum / I Am Present– commissioned by Kiscelli Museum/ Budapest Galeria, Hungary, November 2023, curator Lívia Paldi, supported by Culture Ireland
The Map – Alice Maher, Rachel Fallon, EVA International Biennale, Limerick, curated by Sebastien Chichoki
On Violence – Galeria Budapest,Hungary curated by Lívía Paldi
The Map - Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon, Hugh Lane, Dublin City Gallery
A Very Hard Border – commissioned performance for the Array Collective’s The Druthaib’s Ball at Nun’s Island, Galway Arts Centre.
The Mother City – research project, Cork Midsummer Festival, curators Pluck Projects
DIY Aprons of Power commissioned by Linda Persson as part of The Time is NOW and it is Overdue! - Monica Sjöö retrospective at Beaconsfield, U.K.
The Map a collaboration with Alice Maher as part of The Magdalene Series - commission - Rua Red, South County Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght; curator Maoliosa Boyle
“Who will write the history of tears” – Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Commission of new work; curators Sebastian Cichocki, Magda Lipska
Chapter 3:Social Fabric – The Narrow Gate of the Here-and-Now, IMMA, curator Georgie Thompson
Chapter 4: Protest and Conflict – The Narrow Gate of the Here-and-Now, IMMA, curator Johanne Mullen
The Ordinary Lives of Women - Unfinished Art Space at Spazju Kreattiv, Malta, curators Margerita Pulé, Elise Billiard Pisani
Home Front, Solo Exhibition, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow
Exhibitions 2020 - 2018
Elliptical Affinities, Limerick City Gallery; curators Fionna Barber, Aoife Ruane
Buttered Up and other performances, Aine Phillips at Mart Gallery; curator Matthew Nevin
Fluxus in Signal, Signal Arts Centre, led by Sean Miller
Blue; works from the Arts Council Collection, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford
Elliptical Affinities; Highlanes, Drogheda; curators Fionna Barber, Aoife Ruane
At The Gates, La Criee centre d’art contemporain, Rennes, France – with ACREA, curators Tessa Giblin, Sophie Kaplan
SPREAD, U.K. Touring exhibition with Grrrl Zine Fair, curator Lu Williams
The M Word, One Paved Court Gallery, Richmond, London, U.K.- touring exhibition
The Body Politic, Catalyst Arts, Belfast curator Siobhan Kelly
Repeal & Reward, Kunsthaus Rhenania, Cologne - with ACREA; curator Anne Mager
100 Years – Votes for Women – Great Commemorative Meeting performance commissioned by Wicklow County Council with Outpost Studios.
oh MotHER: Spilt Milk Members Show, Custom House Gallery, Leith, Scotland
Sweet Autos, Doswell Gallery, Roscarberry, Cork.
Repeal! Procession and Archive; EVA International, Limerick With Artists’ Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment (ACREA)
At The Gates, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; with ACREA
Pallas Periodical, Pallas Studios, Dublin with ACREA
Art and Protest, NCAD, Dublin with ACREA
Recent Awards and Residencies
2024 Templebar Gallery and Studios 3 year studio membership award
2023 IMMA Invited Studio Residency and bursary
2023 Arts Council Visual Artist Bursary
2022 Cork City Council artists bursary
2021 Arts Council strand 1 project award.
2020 Arts Council Covid – 19 Award for Visibly Invisible (Pimp)
2018 IRON-R18 Nominated Funded Artist – CIT, CCAD, NSF – Iron research project award International residency award for Outpost Studios
Artist in Residence – Aprons of Power at Saol Project supported by SIPTU
Artist in Residence – Run Away with the Circus, Signal Arts Centre, Bray; Creative Ireland (Wicklow) EYCH Award
International Women’s Day Artist in Residence – Sheela na Gig, Amnesty Cambridge, UK
2017 Artists’ Support Bursary for materials research masterclass program at NSF
RHA Access Award – John Kindness Fresco Master class program.
Publications/ talks /print/online;
Unseen and Unheard - Missing Mothers, Demeter Press, edited by A O’Reilly, M Mullaney, publication February 2024
Courage to Object –(research paper), Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of World Textiles, Vol 4 Colour, edited by B.Parmer et al publication December 2023.
Claiming Spaces – presence as political act, Mothering – Processes, Practices and Performance Routledge Academic Press, edited by L. Semic, E. Underwood- Lee, publication January 2023.
Frayed Tensions and Resistant Stitches – artist talk as part of the curated programme for Social Fabric at IMMA
Performing Domesticity – invited speaker – Critical Domesticities: Performing Gender, Value and Labour in Belfast, Queens University, Belfast.
Drawing Together – a feminist perspective on a collaborative arts practice: Key Note Speaker- International Symposium on Participation: Making Community in Irish Arts, University of Rennes, November 2021
Aprons Of Power – activist symbols referring to the containment of mothers and the absence of their voices within state systems (research paper) - The Missing Mother Conference, Boulton University, April 2021.
Amnesty International Cambridge – Role of an Arts Practice in Activism - (case study -
The Artists’ Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment)
Woman Up – Podcast, Desperate Artwives and Goldsmiths Women’s’ Library – Strategies in
Maternal Art Practice
Repeal and Reward, Cologne, Germany, talk and panel Discussion – expanding feminist
And collaborative practices.
PIMP – Visibly Invisible – online zine funded by the Arts Council
MAM – Stay At Home; Reverse Parenting
She – Archiving an international art collaboration exploring the constructs of femininity; UK
Weapons of Maternal Destruction M.A.M.A. issue 12, Museum of Motherhood, New York,
Mom Egg review, U.S.;
She speaks from between her legs/..on the subject of red shoes, No More Fun and Games, Feminist Parasite Institute publication- Act III ; Hugh Lane , Dublin City Gallery.
Teaching
Visiting Lecturer on various topics including: arts practice, material processes, social engaged practice for NCAD, IADT, Crawford College of Art/MTU, TU Sherkin Island and the Burren College of Art.