R A C H A E L A L L A I N
Exhibitions/Events
Forthcoming
2026: Flow State, Group exhibition with CAMP, MAKE Southwest, Bovey Tracey, UK.
2025: Cyanolumen cameraless photography workshop facilitator for LAPC at Bristol Folkhouse Darkroom, Bristol.
Symbiosis: Liquid exhibition, London Alternative Photography Collective (LAPC), Bristol Folk House, Bristol.
About Time (Invited Artist), Redcar Contemporary, Redcar.
https://www.rccag.co.uk/summer-exhibition-2025
English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark Artist Residency Exhibition, Artizan Gallery, Torquay.
2024:Recipient of the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark Artist Residency Programme, Artizan Gallery Torbay.
The Light at the Most Southerly Point, One Minute Volume Eleven curated by Kerry Baldry screening at Close-Up Film Centre, London E1.
Selected for the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark Artist Residency Programme, Torbay.
August: Participating Artist in Imagining Godzilla Art & Science residency, Finniish Archiplego, Finland.
Life Boat, Group Exhibition with Rachael Allain, Beverley Duckworth, Liz Elton, Susan Eyre, Kathleen Herbert, Kaori Homma, Caroline Areskog Jones, Anne Krinsky, APT (Art in Perpetuity Trust), London.
The Light at the Most Southerly Point, One Minute Volume Eleven curated by Kerry Baldry, screening at the Directors Lounge Contemporary Art and Media, C.A.R Contemporary Art Ruhr, Berlin, Germany.
Beyond the Visible Light Spectrum at the Most Southerly Point (3 minute version) Screening in Imperfect Cinema Open Reel, Manor Street Galleries, Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon.
2023: Datum Line II, Screening in Sound Signatures at CMR Project Space, Cornwall Film Festival, Redruth, Cornwall.
Tidal and Marine Cyanotype Artist demonstration workshop at the Changing Tides BioBlitz event at Mountbatten Centre, Plymouth.
The Light at the Most Southerly Point, One Minute Volume Eleven curated by Kerry Baldry, screening at Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe.
Pilgrim Littus, One Minute Volume Nine curated by Kerry Baldry, screening at Gallery Wolf & Galentz Gallery, Wollankstraße, Berlin, Germany.
The Light at the Most Southerly Point, One Minute Volume Eleven curated by Kerry Baldry, screening at The Art Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk.
Digital Flow/s: digital arts & humanities practice-based research, Watershed & Exhibition at Sparks, Broadmead, Bristol.
The Light at the Most Southerly Point, One Minute Volume Eleven curated by Kerry Baldry at Braziers International Film Festival, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire.
RE/EMERGE Exhibition with Sian Gouldstone & HU Yue, Vacancy Atlas, 107 Cornwall Street, Plymouth.
The Light at the Most Southerly Point, One Minute Volume Eleven curated by Kerry Baldry.
River Year- A Summer Swim, in the About Place Symposium & screening, Jill Craigie Cinema, University of Plymouth.
Datum Line II, Screening in Sounds Signatures, About Place Symposium, University of Plymouth.
Severance, Threshold, Return in BRIDGE THE TAMAR, MIRROR, Plymouth.
2022: Above and Below the Arctic Ocean, The Helene and Johannes Huth Gallery, Design Museum, London.
River Year, screening in Passing Through, British Art Show 9 Film Series, Jill Craigie Cinema, University of Plymouth.
Orbis Arcticum & Halfway between gamma-compressed red and yellow/Orange Tint, CAMP One Minute Film screenings in How Long, At Vacancy Atlas, 107 Cornwall Street, Plymouth.
Water Horizon Film included in Cotidal by Tania Kovats, Appledore, Devon and online.
Reader for Abigail Reynolds Elliptical Reading Group, British Art Show 9 (BAS9), The Box, Plymouth.
Orbis Arcticum & Halfway between gamma-compressed red and yellow/Orange Tint, CAMP One Minute Film screenings, Positive Light Projects, 184-187 Sidwell St, Exeter, Devon.
June: Participating Artist, The International Arctic Circle Art and Science Expeditionary Residency, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway.
Between The River and Sea (solo exhibition), Church House Atelier, Combeinteignhead, Devon.
2021: Inside The Sea, Mini Photo Box Commission by London Alternative Photography Collective.
Water~Ways online symposium and virtual exhibition.
Cine Sisters SW Director's screening, Cinema at Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, Devon.
High Water: Respond/Record/Reflect, for High Tide online event.
2020: The Light at the Most Southerly Point, screening, Plymouth Arts Cinema and online, Plymouth.
Looking for Turtles, selected for International screening, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Yeonmisan Nature Art Park, South Korea.
Lighthouse in Following the Light at The Lizard Point Heritage Centre, The Lizard, Cornwall.
Double Horizons (collaboration with Margaret LeJeune) in Hold Fast, Hartmann Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, USA.
Moving Above and Below the Horizon, 101, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth, Plymouth.
Epipelagic Drifters, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, RAMM, Exeter, Devon.
2019: Moving Above and Below the Horizon, 101, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth, Plymouth.
Epipelagic Drifters, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, RAMM, Exeter, Devon.
Datum Line II in Layers, Connecticut, USA.
Lizard Artist Residency, Group Show, Lumen Crypt, London.
Lizard Artist Residency, Group Show @Helston Museum, Helston, Cornwall.
Light Water Exposures, I, II, III, Media Arts Show, University of Plymouth.
Watering the Moon/Annaffiare la Luna in Luna // A Celebration of Our Moon, The Crypt Gallery, Bethnal Green, London.
Deep Time film screening at Goonhilly Earth Satellite Station, The Lizard, Cornwall.
Deep Time selected for Jubilee Pool Stories, at the Acorn Theatre Penzance, Cornwall.
River Teign selected for Surface Tensions & Liquid Properties, Jubilee Pool Stories, LUX Film, CAST, Helston, Cornwall.
Lizard Point Artist Residency, March 28th -31st 2019
FALLING STARS // STELLA CADENTI, St Pancras Crypt Gallery, London.
Images of Research, Portland Square, University of Plymouth.
2018: Deep Time, Film screening, Land/Water Research, University of Plymouth.
Epipelagic Drifters, commission for Illuminate Light Festival, Ocean Studios, Royal William Yard, Plymouth.
Deep Time Meteor Screening at the Cornwall Film Festival, Falmouth, Cornwall..
Film Screenings from The Ephemeral River Residency, GNAP Science Cabin, UNIST, South Korea.
Doppio Orizzonte with Eleonora Roara, Media Arts Show, Scott Building, University Plymouth for the Plymouth Art Weekender, Plymouth.
VRN Creative Image Residency Exhibition, Manchester School of Art, Righton Building, Cavendish St, Manchester.
Film Screenings at Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2018, Yeonmisan Nature Art Park, Kongju National University, South Korea.
Arte E Astronomia, Lumen Atina Residency 2018, Chiesa San Francesco, Piazza Garibaldi, Atina, Italy.
Deep Time and the Ocean, commission for 100ft of Deep Time Film Project supported by Cinestar, LUX and Plymouth University Media Research, Plymouth.
Ephemeral River Residency, A Global Nomadic Art Project, Dartington Hall.
Blue Prints of Od, Od Arts Festival, Dawes Twine Works, West Coker, Somerset.
Screening in Site Sight Cite II Artists Shorts on Environmental themes, Microcinema, Newton Park Campus, Bath Spa University, Bath.
Pilgrim Littus, in One Minute Artists Moving Image Festival, Programme 1, & Venetian Vista in One Minute Artists Moving Image Festival, Programme 5, Caemarfon, North Wales, curated by Kerry Baldry.
2017: Selected for the Fast Forward, Women in Photo Instagram takeover, in conversation with Claire Laude and Eva Louisa Jonas. A
Lunar G, screening at Tate St. Ives, Film for Friday, St. Ives, Cornwall.
Blue Noise, Collaboration/Installation with Amy Ash, Debbie Kent & Sonia Mangiapane, Kestle Barton, Place Exploration Residency, Cornwall.
Datum Line at Making it Real, London Alternative Photography Collective, at Ugly Duck, 47-49 Tanner Street, London.
Lunar G in Dark Energy, Pannier Market, Barbican, Plymouth.
Sternidae Altum (Sound Piece) selected for the sound installation, Benthic Caress, Tidal Pool, Plymouth.
Blue Eclipse in Compound screening, Royal William Yard, Plymouth.
Supra et Infra Maris, Media Arts Show, Scott Building, Plymouth University, Plymouth Art Weekender 2017.
Orbis Terrarum, with Margaret Harland and Charlotte Price, Garden Room Gallery, Dartington Hall.
Above and Below, Batter Street Studio, Open Studio, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth.
Being Human, Spacex, Art Week Exeter, Exeter, Devon.
Future Imperfect Symposium, Screening, Plymouth University.
Liquid, (Folyékony), Arts Quarter Budapest.
Water screening at Architect at Work, Olympia, London.
F17, Solo Residency Show, Scott Building, Plymouth University.
Subliminal in Bodies of Water, screening Force 8, The Galley, Bridport, Dorset.
2016: F17, Solo Residency Show, Scott Building, Plymouth University, Plymouth.
Cygnus Refulgens, screening, Fringe Arts Bath, Winter Fest, Bath.
River Teign, screening in Water, Conneticut, USA.
Cygnus Refulgens, Film on the Big Screen, City Centre, Plymouth Art Weekender.
Being Human, Mills Bakery, Royal William Yard, Plymouth Art Weekender, Plymouth.
Subliminal in Bodies of Water, screening at Force 8, The Methodist Chapel, West Bay, Bridport, Dorset.
Venetian Vista, screening, One Minute Volume 9, Manchester, Liverpool, Lisbon & Berlin.
2015: Ocean Studios, Group Show, Royal William Yard, Plymouth.
This is not a Dream, Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth University, Plymouth.
Encountering Severance, Threshold and Return in Plymouth Sound, Cinestar artists' film programme, Back Lane West, Redruth, Cornwall.
Subliminal in Bodies of Water, Film Screening, CineStar at the Cornwall Film Festival, Murdoch House, Redruth, Cornwall.
Venetian Vista, screening, One Minute Film Hull, Artists Moving Image Festival
Blue Moon, MFA show, Scott Building, Plymouth University.
Convergence, Mills Bakery, Royal William Yard, Plymouth Art Weekender, Plymouth.
River Teign, Film Screening at Dartmoor Arts, Drewsteignton, Devon.
Bodies of Water, Film Screening, Land/Water Research Seminar, Plymouth University, Plymouth.
Flow, Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth University, Plymouth.
2014: Chart AA2A Summer Show, Plymouth City Council House, Plymouth.
MA Contemporary Art Practice Show, First Floor, Roland Levinsky Building. Plymouth.
Subliminal in The Power of the Sea, Royal West Academy, Bristol.
Council House Open Art Display, Plymouth City Council, Plymouth.
Plymouth MA Contemporary Art Practice, Work In Progress, Plymouth.
MA Contemporary Art Practice, Work in Progress, Roland Levinsky Building
2013: Outcome, Room 101, Plymouth University.
Platform Edited, The Bakery, Royal William Yard.
Platform, Trerise Gallery, Plymouth.
30p Kodak Photo Exhibition, Scott Building, Plymouth University.
CV
Education
PhD Art & Media, funded by 3D3 AHRC, University of Plymouth 2025
MFA Photographic Arts with Distinction, Plymouth University. 2015
MA Contemporary Art Practice, Plymouth University. 2014
PGCE, Post Compulsory Education, Art and Design, University of Plymouth. 2009
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Exeter School of Art and Design, Earl Richards Road. 2007
Teaching
Associate Lecturer, Creative Media/Media Arts/Fine Art, University of Plymouth September 2014 -ongoing
Visiting Lecturer, Marjon University, Plymouth January 2013/2015
Associate Lecturer, Art & Design, South Devon College, Torbay. September 2013/2014
Associate Lecturer, Art & Design, Exeter College September 2008/2012
Awards/Residencies
2024/2025: Selected for the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark Artist Residency Programme, Torbay, UK.
Imagining Gozilla, Finnish Archipelago, Finland.
2023: SIM Artist Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland (postponed).
2022: Bursary award for The Creative Peninsula Summit, Eden Project, Cornwall, UK.
Midsummer Arctic Circle International Art and Science Expeditionary Residency, Svalbard Archipelago.
Paul Mellon Bursary Award to attend the Carbon Slowly Turning: Movement, Energy, Landscape Conference, (Ingrid Pollard exhibition) MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK.
2020/2021: Arctic Circle International Artist Residency, Svalbard Territory, Arctic Circle & Imagining Godzilla, Art & Science Residency, Helsinki, Finland (both postponed due to COVID-19).
River Dart Site-Responsive Project (ongoing).
Following The Light, Lizard Point Artist Residency, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, UK.
2019: Residential Ocean (Art) Science Field Course, Sunday's River, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
3D3 Summer Residential, Aalto University & University of Helsinki, Finland.
ADA PGR Funding (UoP), Oceans and the Visual Arts, University of Reading.
BAFTSS Travel Bursary, Oceans and the Visual Arts: Erika Balsom: Oceanic Feeling, Minghella Cinema, University of Reading.
Lizard Point Artist Residency, Vernal Equinox, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, UK.
2018: 3D3 Doctoral Studentship, 3D3 Centre for Doctoral Training, University of Plymouth
Visual Research Network (VRN), Artist Residency, Brighouse, West Yorkshire.
Lumen Artists Residency, Atina, Italy.
Jamboree, Dartington.
The Ephemeral River Residency, a Global Nomadic Art Project, Dartington Hall, Devon, UK.
Visual Arts Plymouth (VAP) Go See Travel Bursary, Glasgow International Festival.
Blue Prints of Od, Od Arts Festival, Dawes Twine Works, West Coker, Somerset, UK.
Land's End Immersive Film Weekend & Film and Sound Jams assistant to experimental filmmaker/composer Robert Schaller.
2017: Place Exploration Artist Residency, Kestle Barton, Cornwall.
Digital Reporting Bursary, The Tale, Torbay by Situations.
VASW Digital Reporting Bursary, B-Side Assemblies: No 1, Portland, Dorset.
Visual Arts Plymouth (VAP) Go See Travel Bursary, Folkestone Triennial.
Artist Residency at Batter Street Studio, Plymouth Arts Centre.
Recipient of PAC Bursary for BAS8, Southampton and VASW Annual Conference.
Symposia/Conferences/Talks
2025: Curators' tour About Time, Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery, Redcar.
Moving, Through Bodies of Water, Presentation of Practice Research for Land/Water Research, The Levinsky Room, University of Plymouth.
2024:The Flowing Image Conference, Southampton University.
MRP ECR Away Day, University of Plymouth.
2023: About Place, Symposium, University of Plymouth, Plymouth.
2022: Above and Below the Arctic Ocean, The Helene and Johannes Huth Gallery, Design Museum, London.
River Year, screening in Passing Through, British Art Show 9 Film Series, Jill Craigie Cinema, University of Plymouth, UK.
Test Space: Exposition of Practice-Led Research Symposium, CAST, Helston, Cornwall, UK.
Sentient Performativities, Postgraduate Forum, Studio 1, Dartington Hall, Devon, UK.
ARN Seminar: Embodied Manifestations: a hybrid experimental space (physical-virtual) presenting practice for peer review. Title: Take Me To The River: An Unexpected Journey Into The Horizon with Karen Abadie & Laurie Reynolds, Room 101, RLB, University of Plymouth.
Adventures in Posthumanism Doctoral Event 2022, University of Plymouth (online) Dis/orientations and uncertainties: becoming lost, moving beyond the known, A Liquid presentation with artists’ film screening, High Water I & II.
2021:High Water presentation, Water~Ways Symposium (PhD- University of Plymouth) via Zoom-virtual media.
Connecting Through Bodies of Water, Adventures in Posthumanism Doctoral Event, Re-imagining Boundaries in Actual/Virtual Worlds (PhD- University of Plymouth, Institute of Education) via Zoom-virtual media.
Horizon Lines, PGR presentation (PhD- University of Plymouth) via Zoom-virtual media.
2020: Reflections on the Lizard Residency, a PGR presentation (PhD- University of Plymouth) via Zoom-virtual media.
Alternative Photographic Processes in the time of the New Normal by Rachael Allain, Invited speaker for the London Alternative Photography Collective Residency series – (due to COVID-19 presented on Zoom virtual media).
2019: RAMM Lates, Artist Talk and Seaweed Cyanotype workshop, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.
Above and Beyond the Horizon: Ocean, Science and the Visual Arts, in conversation with Professor John Spicer, PhD, Pie and a Pint, National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth.
Above and Below the Horizon, Doctoral Research presentation, Jill Craigie Cinema.
The University of Helsinki: Research Summer School, Kulttuurikeskus ja kokoushotelli Sofia, Kallvikinniementie, Helsinki, Finland.
Environmental Arts Practice Research Conference, Land/Water and the Visual Arts, University of Plymouth.
Oceans and The Visual Arts, PGR & ECR Conference, University of Reading.
2018: Arts Research Seminar Series, Exploring New Horizons, with Professor Liz Wells, Seeding Change: The Challenges of Pro-Activist Curatorial Initiatives, University of Plymouth.
CREATIVE IMAGE, 1st International Conference, University of Manchester.
20/20 Presentation at Jamboree, Dartington Hall.
Supra et Infra Maris, Research presentation at Land/Water and the Visual Arts, Plymouth University.
2017: VAP (Visual Arts Plymouth), Go See Bursary presentation on Research from The Folkestone Triennial, PAC Home.
Pecha Kucha, Beyond Human Vision; On Microscopic Visions, Place Exploration Artist Residency, Kestle Barton, Cornwall.
Data Ache DRHA 2017 Symposium, Beyond Human Vision, Plymouth University.
PAC Home, Batter Street Studio Residency Crit, Plymouth Arts Centre.
2016:Future Imperfect, screening of Lunar G and Panel discussion, Cinema Aesthetics.
Artist Talk, First Fridays, Art dot Earth, Dartington Hall.
2015: Artist Talk, BA Fine Art Visiting Lecture Series, Petroc.
2014: Post Graduate Society Conference, Paper delivered: Encountering Severance, Threshold and Return in Plymouth Sound, Plymouth University.
British Waters and Beyond: The cultural significance of the sea since 1800, Paper delivered: Experimental Seascapes, Subliminal: Junctures in the water, Royal West Academy, Bristol.
Membership/Research/Other
Cine Sisters SW Active Member from July 2020- June 2021
CAMP Artists Network Member from June- December 2020 - current.
AN Artists Network member 2014 - current.
Plymouth University Photography Research Group 2015- current.
VRN (Visual Research Network) Member 2018- current.
Plymouth Arts Centre (PAC) PAC Home member, 2015 -2018.
Visual Arts Plymouth (VAP) Activator 2015- 2019.
Performance
Participation in Abigail Reynolds Elliptical Reading group for BAS9, The Box, Plymouth 2022.
Participation in Nilbar Güres' commission for The Atlantic Project, Plymouth 2018.
Performance in Simon Popes, The Gift, for Sea Swim:Head Above Water, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth 2016.
Performance in Emily's Speed's, Littoral Zone, Plymouth Arts Centre, 2014.
Performance in Hamish Fulton's durational walk for Walk On, Plymouth, 2014.