Nathaniel Rackowe b. 1975

Overview

Nathaniel Rackowe's large-scale architectural structures and light sculptures are designed to recreate the experience of navigating the city around us. His works are abstracted impressions of today’s metropolitan experience evoked through the vicissitudes of light as it fluctuates throughout the city. Influenced by Modernism, Rackowe uses the mass manufactured derivative products of that era - corrugated plastics, concrete, scaffolding, breeze blocks and strip lights - to recreate the collective experience and visual sensations of urban contemporary life.

Works
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, FL06
    FL06
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, Pathfinding, 2008
    Pathfinding, 2008
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, Black Shed Expanded (BSE), 2014
    Black Shed Expanded (BSE), 2014
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, DG01, 2015
    DG01, 2015
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, DG04, 2015
    DG04, 2015
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, SD10, 2016
    SD10, 2016
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, SD11, 2016
    SD11, 2016
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, SD13, 2016
    SD13, 2016
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, PT011, 2021
    PT011, 2021
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, FL03, 2022
    FL03, 2022
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, FL05, 2022
    FL05, 2022
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, FL02, 2022
    FL02, 2022
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, FL04, 2022
    FL04, 2022
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, FL07, 2022
    FL07, 2022
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, FL08, 2022
    FL08, 2022
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, FL09, 2022
    FL09, 2022
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, FL10, 2022
    FL10, 2022
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, FL11, 2022
    FL11, 2022
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, FL12, 2022
    FL12, 2022
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, SP9, 2010
    SP9, 2010
  • Nathaniel Rackowe, The Consequence of Light, 2014
    The Consequence of Light, 2014
Biography

Nathaniel Rackowe was born in the UK in 1975 and graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art with an MFA in sculpture.

Recent solo and group shows include Summer Lights Festival, Canary Wharf, London, 2022; The Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 2022; Folly at Tremenheere Sculpture Park, London, UK, 2022; Passing Through, Fold Gallery, Fitzrovia, London, UK, 2021; EVI Lichtungen, Light Art Festival, Hildesheim, Germany, 2020; Lightkeepers, S12 Gallery, Bergen, Norway, 2020; Luminous Territories solo, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE, 2019; The Shape of City, Letitia Art Gallery, Beirut, 2018; Threshold, FOLD Gallery, London, UK, 2018; (De)figured, Dance / Installation with Angela Woodhouse, Elephant x Griffin, London, UK, 2018; Signs of a City, Galerie Jérôme Pauchant, Paris, France, 2017; Parasolstice – Winter Light, Parasol Unit, London, UK, 2016; The Luminous City, Canary Wharf, London, UK, 2016; Radiant Trajectory, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, UAE, 2015; Edge Lands, Galerie Jérôme Pauchant, Paris, France, 2014 and The Consequence of Light, Bodson Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2014.

His works are in notable public and private collections including Ventes Privées, Paris, France; Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Tasmania, Australia; CIFO (Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation), Miami, FL, USA; Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico; Museum of Modern Art, Lima, Peru; LVMH Collection, Paris, France; David Roberts Collection, London, UK; UK Government Art Collection, London, UK; Hauser & Wirth Collection, London, UK; Ernst & Young Collection, London, UK; VR d’Affaux Collection, Paris, France; Patricia Marshall, Private collection, Paris, France; Marc Blondeau, Private collection, Geneva, Switzerland; Almine-Rech-Picasso, Private collection, Paris, France; Salama Bint Hamdan Foundation, Abu Dhabi, UAE and Modern Forms, UK. 

 

Rackowe currently lives and works in London.

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