Rachel Marsden is a visual artist who uses photography to create poetic visual narratives and to explore philosophical realms.
She grew up in the small Australian town of Stanthorpe, a place on the Queensland/ New South Wales border known for it’s low temperatures and apples. Her love for this small pastoral town with it’s unique landscapes of granite boulders and tea trees, winter fogs and wildflowers influenced her artistic vision from an early age and still serves as fertile inspiration for her photography and writing.
At the age of eighteen Marsden fell in love with the darkroom and has since completed both a Diploma and a Bachelor of Photography where she majored in photographic art practice. She worked for five years at one of Australia’s top photography studios before ‘getting lost on her way home’ while traveling in Europe and ended up in Berlin. She now lives nomadically between Australia and Berlin working on personal and commissioned photography projects and writes in her spare time.
She has exhibited her work since 2002 in both group and solo shows. Her work is in private collections across Australia, Germany and the USA.