Rachel Adams is a visual Artist who lives and works in Glasgow. She is a lecturer in Sculpture and Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art.
Rachel Adams studied Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh, awarded MFA at Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford, and was an AHRC funded Doctoral Researcher University of Edinburgh and Dundee Contemporary Art Print Studio between 2017 and 2023.
Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally. Her practice brings together sculpture, design, contemporary materials, technology and their relationships to the natural world. Her work is held in collections such as the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Saatchi Collection.
Adams was commissioned to produce work which responds to the creation of the light-emmitting-diode (LED), biscovered by Professor John W. Allen in the 1960s. Allen worked at the University of St Andrews from 1980 to 2015 as Professor of Solid-State Physics. A selection of teaching materials, scientific instruments, and early-LEDs make up the John W. Allen Collection from which Adams has taken inspiration.
