Rachel Roller

Rachel Roller is an artist creating artist’s books and printed matter. Her work draws on literature, poetry, and personal narratives, transforming found objects and ephemera into intimate publications. Using traditional bookmaking techniques, she integrates memory, family histories, and the overlooked details of everyday life.

Work

  • Dear Klaus

    Dear Klaus

    Dear Klaus — Thanks for your email. I wish you had sent me a postcard. — Yours, Rachel” Rachel Roller sent postcards to her uncle, hoping he would return the favour. Instead, he replied by email.

    Postcard edition of 200 (First Edition in black)
    Postcard edition of 200 (Second Edition in blue)

  • Papa’s Benz

    For twenty years Rachel Roller’s father kept the used car dealers’ business cards left under the windscreen wiper of his Mercedes Benz, collecting them in a pile on the dashboard.

    • Pages: 48
    • Dimensions: 100 x 150mm
    • Printing: Offset
    • Binding: Three Hole Pamphlet Binding
    • Year: 2022

    Edition of 200.

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  • Oma’s Bags

    A collection of objects Rachel Roller found in her late grandmother’s hand bags, arranged and photographed on her living room table. Each bag contained the following: a pen knife, perfume bottle, a handkerchief, sugar cube, a pen, a comb, matches, cough drop, a rain hood and a purse.

    • Pages: 12
    • Dimensions: 100 x 150mm
    • Printing: Offset
    • Binding: Three Hole Pamphlet Binding
    • Year: 2022

    Edition of 200.

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  • Certificate of Authentication

    Certificate of Authentication

    Rachel Roller’s Certificate of Authentication.

    ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative members and invited artists contribute to this project. Each participant supplied a Certificate of Authenticity (CoA) but with the CoA itself being the artefact. In other words, each document referenced itself.

    An ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative project. Initiator: Micheál O’Connell.

    Pages: 60
    Dimentions: 210 x 297mm
    Printing: Print on Demand
    Binding: Loose sheets
    Year: 2021

    Price including p&p €40.00. Order here.