23 - Other Criteria - Rachel Howard - Human Shrapnel

Please join Other Criteria to celebrate the launch of

Rachel Howard: Human Shrapnel

On Thursday 23 September, 6 – 8pm

At Other Criteria, 36 New Bond Street, London, W1S 2RP

RSVP: julia@purplepr.com / 07852 972 225

PRESS RELEASE

Other Criteria launch Rachel Howard’s ‘Human Shrapnel’ series

24 September – 24 October 2010

Thursday 23 September marks the launch of Rachel Howard’s first solo drawing show, ‘Human Shrapnel’, featuring a series of oil drawings on paper. Created by the artist for Other Criteria, these new works will be exhibited in their New Bond Street shop in London until 24 October.

The title for the series stems from Howard’s personal reaction to the violent terrorist attacks on London in 2005, ‘It was after the 7/7 bombings in London that these two words penetrated my psyche’.

Working with her sister as her muse and meticulously scouring source material from the internet and newspapers, Howard deals with images and symbols relating to conflict and the human body. Each oil drawing emanates both starkness and raw emotion, revealing how Howard dissected images of war by looking at the human anatomy from a different perspective; war and the body as a weapon, to inflict and be inflicted upon.

‘Human Shrapnel’ oil drawings on paper, signed by the artist, available exclusively through Other Criteria priced between £2000 and £5000.

Other Criteria have three permanent shops on 36 New Bond Street, London, 14 Hinde St, London and 988 Madison Avenue, New York.

ENDS

For more information visit www.othercriteria.com or contact:

Julia Huff julia@purplepr.com +44 207 439 9888

Sam Talbot sam@purplepr.com +44 207 434 7063

Notes to editors

Rachel Howard

Rachel Howard was born in Easington, County Durham, she attended a Quaker school in York, then went to Goldsmiths College, London University at 18 where she studied Fine Art and Art History.

Howard has exhibited in UK and abroad, most recently solo shows at Haunch of Venison, London and Zurich (2008/2009) Museum van Loon, Amsterdam (2008) Gagosian, Beverly Hills and Bohen Foundation, New York (2007). In 2010, her drawings have been included in survey drawing shows at White Cube, London, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill, UK. Howard was shortlisted for the Jerwood drawing prize 2004.

Other Criteria

Launched in 2005, Other Criteria began as a publishing company headed up by Damien Hirst, Hugh Allan and Frank Dunphy, with creative director Jason Beard. Evolving organically from their website, the company opened shop fronts in London on New Bond St (October 2008) and Hinde St (February 2009) as well as a floor in Gagosian’s new retail space on Madison Avenue in New York. Collaborating closely with established and emerging artists, the store prides itself on displaying “great quality art by the best artists and making it available to everyone.”