Rachel Gilbert was born in Texas but with family roots in Newfoundland, she moved to the island in 2014 to study for a BFA in Visual Arts from Grenfell Campus. As an interdisciplinary artist, Gilbert specializes in painting and printmaking with subjects ranging from animals and nature to still life and portraiture. She has been working with the arts community since 2016, starting with the Corner Brook Rotary Arts Centre’s Visual Arts Committee, a Collections Internship at The Rooms, to her work as the Communication & Design Assistant at St. Michael’s Printshop. Rachel recently worked as the Outreach Coordinator at Eastern Edge. She is also one of the lead organizers of the BIPOC Creators Collective of Newfoundland and Labrador. Rachel currently lives and works out of St. John’s, Newfoundland.
