Rachel Doolin is a visual artist, arts facilitator and project designer based in the South of Ireland. Doolin’s multidisciplinary practice merges art, experimentation and ecology to create work that is inextricably linked to material research, driven by a desire to test the parameters of materiality, media and the criticality of issue-based practice. Her work is thematically underpinned by a passion to explore the multifaceted dualities and dichotomies that surround materiality, habitation and the environment. By employing a methodology of making that she describes as ‘simple complexity’, Doolin gathers, manipulates and combines various media to actualise thought provoking eco-poetic installations. She frequently incorporates gathered or discarded matter into the creation of her work, responding instinctively to explore its materiality on an aesthetic, intellectual and visceral level. Doolin further explores origin materials through alchemical techniques, creating her own biodegradable polymers and experimenting with crystallisation processes.  Her sculptural and installation-based works are simultaneously delicate and complex aggregations that pertain to the vulnerability and persistence, fragility and tenacity of biological life in the Anthropocene.

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Doolin graduated with a BA in Fine Art from the Crawford College of Art & Design in 2015, receiving several graduate awards including the RDS Taylor Art Prize for her degree show installation Promethean Illusions. She has since pursued her practice with great energy and ambition, her multifaceted oeuvre including exhibition works, public artworks and socially engaged projects. Doolin’s practice is rooted in collaboration and she frequently works with artists, NGO’s as well as community and professional organisations in the realisation of her projects.