Racheal Crowther

Racheal Crowther is a London-based artist whose practice examines governance, surveillance, and institutional power, tracing their entanglement with systems of care. Her work repurposes technical apparatus and industrial objects charged with memory to reveal failures in bureaucracy and the persistent grip of institutional structures on daily life. Her current line of enquiry investigates the politics of scent as a tool of influence and social control. Tracing the many roles of sensory manipulation across time and space—from the imperceptible conditioning of commercial environments to its deployment within military and policing apparatuses—her practice conceptualises olfactory manufacturing as a medium through which atmospheres are engineered and behaviours directed.

Forthcoming presentations include a solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London, and participation in the group exhibition Flare-Up at Goldsmiths CCA, London (both 2026).

Crowther has developed solo exhibitions including Gebrauchsmusik at Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin (2025); Managed Decline at 243 Luz, Margate (2023); Qualified to Care at Ginny on Frederick, London (2022–23); and Hard Shoulder at Peak Gallery, London (2019). Her work has also been presented in numerous group exhibitions such as Concilium at Palazzo Grasselli, Cremona, Italy (2025); Royal Academy Schools Show at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2024); and Devotional Cache at House of Seiko, San Francisco, USA.

Her publishing projects include Interjection Calendar 011 (guest edited by Crowther, Montez Press, London/New York, 2025); “The Eternal Pursuit of the Unattainable” in Interjection Calendar 009 (Montez Press, 2023); and Qualified to Care (self-published, London, 2022).

She studied at the Royal Academy Schools, Royal Academy of Arts (Postgraduate Programme in Fine Art, 2021–2024), following a BA (Hons) in Fine Art & Critical Thinking from Goldsmiths, University of London (2010–2013).

Email: racheal.crowther@rsa.ox.ac.uk

Website: https://qualifiedtocare.com/