Camberwell ILEA Collection,
Remote Sensing

Rachel responded to the ILEA Collection during the pandemic in 2021, working as part of the ‘In-Heritage Group’, a community of practice at University of the Arts London. The work was exhibited in the Camberwell College Library and presented at Remote Sensing.

Rachel approached the collection through the lends of the illustrator. Illustration stems from the Latin word illustrare, which means to ‘illuminate’ – it is ‘a shining’, ‘a manifestation’. With this in mind, she made photographic prints of the objects in the ILEA collection using camera-less photography methods and the light of a digital screen and an enlarger; a process that could be described as a ‘light rubbing’. It was an attempt to come closer to the object by making a copy of it that that you can hold.