Rachel Jordan

Rachel Jordan
Photo of Rachel Jordan by Charles Thomson
Born	(1968-05-08) 8 May 1968 (age 48) Maldon, Essex, England
Education	University of Sheffield, City Literary Institute
Known for	Painting
Movement	Stuckism

Rachel Jordan (born 8 May 1968) is a British artist and has been a frequent guest exhibitor with the Stuckists. For Stuckist shows she created satirical figurative paintings; however, her main body of work is abstract paintings and drawings, alluding to cellular forms.

Rachel Jordan was born in Maldon, Essex, England, and attended the University of Sheffield (1986–90), where she obtained Dual Honours in French and Hispanic Studies, then worked in office jobs until 1999, while also attending a fine art course 1995–98 at the City Literary Institute, London, where her final show, The Princess Project, consisted of paintings about Princess Diana. In 2000, she started work as a picture researcher for BBC Books. The same year, she exhibited in the Stuckist show, The Resignation of Sir Nicholas Serota and took part, dressed as a Pierrot, in the first Stuckist demonstration against the Turner Prize outside Tate Britain.

In 2001, she moved from London to Chatham to live with Stuckist artist Wolf Howard, with whom she shared a studio for three years. In 2003-04, she ran children's art workshops in Medway galleries and schools, then for Colchester Borough Council and firstsite Gallery in 2005-06, and in Oxford in 2007. In 2004, she was included in the Stuckists' show The Stuckists Punk Victorian, at the Walker Art Gallery during the Liverpool Biennial. She said that she is 95% recovered from ME, from which she suffered.