Rachel Amy Winton is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across film, photography, collage, drawing, and design. Her practice spans intuitively sourced, hand-drawn digital illustrations, motion-based visuals, and animated collages pieced together from found imagery and archival film footage.
Drawn to the intersection of music and image, she has collaborated closely with musicians, DJs, festivals, and grassroots organisers across the new jazz, alternative, and dance music scenes. In connection to community, her work captures the raw spontaneity of live performance, documents the sacred energy behind the scenes and creates the videos and visuals that accompany the music out into the world.
Raised between London, New York, and Jerusalem, Rachel has studied art history, film, and art psychotherapy — threads that continue to inform her multidisciplinary approach. She is currently deepening her work through studying core shamanism and conscious embodiment.
A former resident artist at UnionDocs in Brooklyn, she has been mentored by filmmakers Jem Cohen (Instrument with Fugazi, Long for the City with Patti Smith) and Mike Dibb (Ways of Seeing with John Berger, The Miles Davis Story, The Art of Improvisation with Keith Jarrett), influentially shaping her approach to creating. Rachel has also contributed to production and stage design for a range of independent, artist-led DIY festivals including Otherfield, Earworm, Midnight Goose and Mellow Marshes.
Her collaborations have been featured in Rolling Stone, NME and screened at film festivals across the USA, winning the Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival and Best Human Story at the Better Cities Film Festival. Her most recent collaboration with Platform Earth — an initiative uniting artists and scientists to reimagine the conversation around climate change — helped fundraise for the active restoration of Mexican mangroves, British kelp forests, and the Venice Lagoon.
Rachel is dedicated to catalysing a culture that harnesses the healing power of the arts — embracing diversity, embodying the unity of our humanity and empowering a regenerative future for life on this planet.