Rachael Nee

Rachael Nee is a Bristol-based artist and RWA Academician with an MA Fine Art from UAL: Chelsea and a BA Ceramics from UWE. Her practice spans installation, sculpture, DIY electronics, sound and drawing.

The heart of her work explores the fertile territory where art and science meet. Beginning with research grounded in science, Rachael’s work transforms these serious inquiries into playful speculations.

Among her favourite projects are a research residency at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which led to ‘Orders of Magnitude: Potato Powered Cosmos’, an installation exploring energy and scale. She later returned to CERN as artist-in-residence for the High School Teachers Programme.

Rachael has collaborated with the University of Bristol Robotics department on a microbe-powered music synthesiser, built ‘The Fumifugium’, an organ made from car exhausts that turned air pollution data into sound, and most recently exhibited ‘COINCIDENCE!’ in RWA's Cosmos exhibition (2026): a cosmic ray detector that delivered random prophetic messages.

Rachael has previously served as an RWA Artist Trustee, on both the Academician Council and Exhibition Committees, co-curated the Fire! Exhibition (2019), and taught sci-art-tech projects for SEND students through RWA's Learning and Education programme. 

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Gallery (from left)

Coincidence! 2026 (photo: Alastair Brooke, KoLab studios)
Coincidence! (detail) 2026  (photo: Alastair Brooke, KoLab studios)
Sightseers, 2025 
Potato Powered Cosmos, 2017 (photo: Gorm Ashurst)