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The Last One, 2015. In 2015 Rachael installed the Art is No Art exhibition at the Glasgow School of Art’s Project Space 1 Gallery. In this ‘free for the taking’ art show, the doors were left open – signs and posters instructed visitors to simply take a piece if they wanted to. Rachael’s name was not advertised on any promotional material or mentioned at the exhibition itself. It was ‘Free Art’ for six days. Each successive day, pieces were removed from the exhibition by visitors, without any record or knowledge of ‘who took what’. At the end of each day, Rachael went back to the exhibition space to photograph, write, and take inventory. After starting with twenty-eight pieces on the walls, the show concluded with one. In the long-exposure photograph, The Last One, Rachael captures the moment she takes down the last piece and folds it in half on the floor.

Rachael Berman
American, b.1982

Rachael Berman is an experimental artist and creative researcher. She uses photography, mixed media, writing, and forms of meditative action to explore the metaphysical, systematized, and abstract through layers, lists, and collage. Nature, technology, Zen Buddhism, waste, and experimental play inform her studio practice. Her current work investigates layers of reality through digital collage, ink play, and cyanotype printmaking.

She studied fine art photography at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University (BFA 2004) and received a Master of Research in Creative Practices from The Glasgow School of Art (2015).

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