Disability Arts Online

Rachel Gadsden has been exploring derelict Asylum Hospitals seeking to examine the traces of life within their fabric despite the neglect and decay.

She sets about exploring the dereliction to develop a metaphorical voice comparing inside and outside. In the context of an asylum this phrase relates to confinement as well as something which is universally felt.

Rachel's mixed media paintings, drawings, projections and videos attempt to capture the building's struggle to survive and its inevitable physical demise, the decay being a tangible evocation of our own psychological ephemerallity.