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Rachel Brown
(formerly Rachel Giese)

5 Ave du 14ième R.I.
31400 Toulouse, France
tel-fax: +33 (0)561 53 43 97

P.O. Box 1864
Wellfleet, MA 02667 USA
tel: 508 349 9289

e-mail: dejean.brown@numericable.fr and rasha2@verizon.net

www.rachelbrownphoto.com

Born in New York City, 1936

Studied photography as private student of Melissa Shook at MIT, Cambridge, MA. 1976.

Represented by Gallery Ehva, Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA, and Galerie Trafic, Paris, France.
Solo Exhibitions
2009
 Musée Arthur Batut, La Bruguière, Tarn, France. Sweeney's Flight.
2006
 France: Three-venue tour of "The Women's Wing/L'Aile des Femmes"
Palais des Evêques, St.-Lizier; L'Estive Cultural Center, Foix; Centre Méridional de l'Architecture et de la Ville, Toulouse.
2005
 Galerie Trafic. "The Women's Wing/L'Aile des Femmes," a pinhole camera study of an abandoned mental asylum for women in St. Lizier, France.
2001
 University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France. “Children of Ulster”
2001-2
 Centre Meridional de l’Architecture et de la Ville, Toulouse, France.
“Field Work”.
2001
 Lesalonreçoit. Toulouse, France. “Nuages Croyables”.
2000
 Pacific Lutheran University. Tacoma, WA. “Children of Ulster”.
1996-8
 Seven-venue tour throughout Northern Ireland of two exhibitions:
”The Donegal Pictures” and “Migrations”.
1995
 Stockholm Public Library, Sweden. “Sweeney’s Flight”.
In conjunction with Nobel Prize award to Seamus Heaney
(co-author of “Sweeney’s Flight”.)
1993
 Fermanagh County Museum. Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
  Amherst College, Amherst, MA.
  Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA.
1992
 South Bank Poetry Library. London, England.
  Dublin Writers Museum. Dublin, Ireland.
  Ulster Museum. Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  Lenoir-Rhyne College. Hickory, NC.
1991
 University of Leiden. Leiden, Netherlands.
Group Exhibitions
2009
 ArtStrand Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA. All About Photography. Invitational.
2002
 Group exhibition at Galerie Trafic. Ivry-sur-Seine, France.
2001
 Two-person exhibition with artist Daniel Dejean
at Galerie Trafic. Ivry-sur-Seine, France.
2000
 “Three Photographers: Rachel Brown, Norma Holt, Lisette Model.”
Cherrystone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA.
2000
 “Pyrénées: Nouveaux Regards, Nouveau Siècle.“; Touring exhibition of five artists.
Shown in Collioure, Toulouse and Pau, France.
1999
 “Atelier et Produits Finis.” Ten invited photographers. Villemur-sur-Tarn, France.
Sponsored by the Conseil Régional Midi-Pyrénées.
1996
 Rising Tide Gallery. Provincetown, MA.
1996
 “Begegnungen.” Museum Kloster-Asbach, Bavaria, Germany.
1994-5
 “Kaleidoscopic Pilgrimage.” Ten artists from Ireland, France
and Spain on the subject of transmigration.
Sponsored by the Commission of European Communities.
Six-venue tour in Ireland and Spain.
Grants
2006
 Recipient of €3000 grant from French government, Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles, to continue work. France.
Publications

2002

Solstice
Sixteen photographs of summer and winter solstice periods in County Mayo and Connemara.
Foreword by Mary Oliver. Self-published.

1987/1988

Rachel Giese: The Donegal Pictures
 Seventy-nine photographs of remote Irish-speaking farming and sheepherding community. Introduction by Ciaran Carson.
Faber & Faber and Wake Forest University Press.

1992

Sweeney’s Flight
 Thirty-four photographs of Ulster landscape with poetry text by Seamus Heaney (winner of 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature).
Faber & Faber and Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
(Published under former name Rachel Giese.)

2004

Irish Pages
Belfast,2004. Vol. 2, Number 2, Earth Issue.
Photo Portfolio: Field Work
Book Covers
 

Súile Shuibhne. Poetry by Cathal Ó Searcaigh. Coiscéim, Dublin, 1983.
Nihil Obstat. Poetry By Gabriel Rosentstock. Coiscéim, 1984
Ploughshares. An anthology of poetry edited by Seamus Heaney.
Cambridge, MA. 1984
Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara & Other Writings.
Tim Robinson. Lilliput Press. 1996
Camchuairt Chonamara Theas: A Twisty Journey Mapping South Connemara.
Tim Robinson. Coiscéim. 2002
 
Authors' Portraits for Book Covers
 

Mary Oliver. The Best American Essays, 2009. Mariner Books. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Derek Mahon. The Hudson Letter, Derek Mahon:
Selected Poems, The Bacchae. Gallery Press, Penguin Books
Ciarán Carson. First Language:Poems.
Wake Forest University Press, Gallery Press
Cathal Ó Searcaigh. An Bealach'na Bhaile: Homecoming.
Clo Iar- Chonnachta.
Tom Paulin. Fivemiletown. Faber & Faber
Patricia Craig. Oxford Book of Schooldays,
Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories. Oxford University Press
Cynthia Zarin. The Swordfish Tooth. Alfred Knopf
John Montague. Smashing the Piano. Wake Forest University Press.  

 
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