THE GIRL WHO LURKS BEHIND THE WORK
Rachel Weaver is an Australian Surreal Horror Artist, specialising in sickly sweet creations. Her work is driven by an eternal love of all things scary, fused with 80's nostalgia and sugary pastels. Fuelled by a relentless and overactive imagination, her work thrills some and disturbs others...
Sugar and spice and things not so nice are what fill me with endless inspiration. The juxtaposition of decay and preservatives, gore and candy. Strange creatures...the things of nightmares...I create what brings me joy. To see it bought to life, real and in front of me. It may be creepy, cute or a little of both. People either love it, or hate it. They can't look away and they can't unsee it.
The combination of horror elements fused with victuals gives new meaning to the term "sickly sweet". Jelly beans, maggots, bubble gum, rotten teeth, rainbow sprinkles and bloodshot eyeballs. Her work has been described as "delightfully horrid" and "weirdly cool".
Rachel Weaver resides in the windy city of Geraldton Western Australia, creating her unusual artworks from polymer clay, resin and mixed media. She is happiest binge watching horror, sketching out strange ideas and eating gummy bears.