rachel bride ashton
Rachel Bride Ashton is a Scottish multi-disciplinary artist, writer and musician who lives off-grid in Aberdeenshire. She is interested in depth psychology, body politics, the microbiome, sustainable building and gardening, foraging, plant medicine, the mind-body connection and symbiosis. Rachel lives by the adage everything is connected. She returned to formal education in Dundee in 2019 and is the recipient of the Freelands Painting Prize 2022. Rachel graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design with a first-class honours degree in 2022 and won the Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) Award, Generator Projects Prize and the James Guthrie Orchar Prize for her degree show installation which featured female empowered birth practices, separation compost toilets and good bacteria.
