https://rachelmacmanus.art/ Based in Co Clare, Ireland, Rachel works through drawing and performance. Her drawing takes the form of a community based collaborative practice, which allows an ongoing exploration into the cultural and social nuances of her surroundings. Her performance practice employs endurance based tasks and repetitive action as a way to experience how it feels to be present in a space. Rachel holds a Masters in Fine Art, Open College of the Arts (UCA) 2019 and a BA in Visual Communications, National College of Art and Design 1997 She has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally including at IMMA, Mart Gallery Dublin, 126 Artist Run Gallery (Galway), glór (Co Clare), Ps2 Studios (Belfast), Revision Festival (Belfast), FIX21 Catalyst Arts (Belfast), Die Kunstschaffenden Gallery, (Linz, Austria) and Musikhuset, (Gävle, Sweden). Recent projects include RUB- a live performance for Re-Vision Festival, Belfast, and Dusk, a durational live performance on the shores of Lake Wolfgang, St Gilgen, Austria. Rachel co facilitates Creative Circles, a monthly meeting space for Clare based Creatives, and co facilitated The Friday Arts Club a pilot funded by Creative Ireland to encourage older people interested in the arts to meet. As a founding member of the Co. Clare based collective The Negative Space, she is currently painting a series of public art works in Co Clare.