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Rachel MacFarlane
Canadian (1986)
Rachel MacFarlane is a Canadian painter.
From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an oil painting work attributed to Rachel MacFarlane (1986) was C$1,250 - paid for "Held Up" at Heffel in Vancouver on Thu, Sep 28, 2017.
ArtValue.ca has 2 auction art sale records for their oil painting results, with prices in the range of C$1,000 to C$2,500.
ArtValue.ca has 2 auction art sale records for their oil painting results, with prices in the range of C$1,000 to C$2,500.
Waddington's Auction House Biography and Notes
Toronto-based artist Rachel MacFarlane received her BFA from OCAD University in 2008. Using a process that begins with maquettes made from collected and curated refuse, MacFarlane then arranges small-scale dioramas that serve as models for the foundation of her paintings. Within these tiny banal spaces the edge of a cardboard cup may become a barricade, a chrome mylar base presents itself as a reflective swamp, and broken matchsticks transform into an architectural monument. The manufactured settings are then transcribed into larger-scale oil paintings of abstract space-scapes rendered with imaginative use of colour, pattern and scale.