"Painting is a speculative business. Like a gambler you come to the table with your set of “chips” - your ideas and concepts. The game involves risk-taking and the active provocation of chance; images are eventually brokered through the painting process and the substance of paint, with all its unpredictable characteristics. You could say that a painting only really lives by lucky chance.”
Rachel Lumsden 2010
| 1995 – 1998 | M.A. Painting The Royal Academy Schools, London |
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| 1987 – 1991 | B.A. (Honours) Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University |
| 2007 onwards | Lecturer Hochschule Design & Kunst Luzern |
GRANTS & PRIZES
| 2011 | Internationaler Kunstpreis des Landes Vorarlberg |
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| 2009 | St. Galler Förderpreis |
| 2005 | St. Galler Werkbeitrag für Bildende Kunst |
| 2001 | Award from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation New York |
| 1998 | CrestCo Art Prize from The Bank of England |
| David Murray prize | |
| Landseer prize |
RESIDENCIES
| 2012 | Artist in Residence, Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, awarded by Visarteost |
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| 2008/09 | Artist in Residence, La Fabrik, Berlin awarded by Stadt St. Gallen |