Press Features

Art Collector Magazine, 2024

“Rachel Mackay’s sculptures, videos and photography map the porous nature of the human body, positioning the skin as a boundary between our inner and outer worlds. In large-scale sculptural works like Torso, the use of latex viscerally captures a sense of transformation, exploring how our bodies remember and reshape themselves in response to the world…”

To Be Magazine, 2025

“Through distortion, reflection and material experimentation, artist Rachel Mackay explores the shifting perceptions of the human form. After the opening of her exhibition Chimera at Piermarq Projects, she hops on a call to reflect on her evolving practice (currently spanning oil painting, sculpture, and installation), her interest in myth, and the tensions between visibility, identity and embodiment…”

Arts Hub, 2025

“The works I felt most drawn to worked beyond the canvas. Rachel Mackay’s Support System #1 (2025) oozed down the wall. The pointy nipples of the boobs hanging in stressed nylon stockings almost look back up at the viewer.

Exhibited alongside is a small painting of morphing or melting boobs, her airbrushed oil painting technique smoothing them within a blur. Mackay’s works capture movement, and I can only begin to imagine the sagging nylon stretching further as the clay boob inside drags it to the floor…”