Rachel Ahern
Drift is a multimedia project developed through an ongoing engagement with the artist’s street photography archive, combining new and existing work, through a process of return and reflection.
A further engagement, which photography allows, is core to this project. The artist reworks photographic material, allowing new relationships to form between images. Lino printing, in particular, offers a way to physically layer one image over another, creating a conversation between the original photograph and its reimagined form.
Drift emphasizes repetition and return rather than a fixed or linear narrative.
Rachel Ahern is is an Irish visual artist, working across analogue photography, drawing, and printmaking. Their practice begins with photographic interventions, using drawing and printmaking as a way to revisit and reflect on images, slowing down the act of looking. Rooted in observation and repetition, their work explores how mixed media processes can offer new ways to experience and understand public space. By moving across mediums, Ahern cultivates an ongoing dialogue between image, material, and memory. This reflective approach intersects with their commercial work in e-commerce and music photography, which serves as both inspiration and a site for further exploration.
