Rachel Bungey (b.1992) is a London-born artist working across sculpture, painting, and drawing. She completed an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 2023 and is currently based at the Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London.
Her practice examines entanglement, how human and non-human life are inseparable from land, material, and each other. Working between sculpture and painting, Bungey explores hybrid and transitional forms that resist fixed identities, investigating hidden relationships and how the human experience is shaped through material and ecological systems.
Sculpture is informed by research into non-human species, using their structures - bones, shells or exoskeletons - to trace physical connections across other forms of life. She also researches material histories and networks, considering the origins of materials and how they circulate through natural and industrial environments. Working directly with natural materials such as marble, wood, and metal enables an embodied engagement with land. 
Bungey's paintings function as abstract systems where bodily, material, and ecological processes intersect. Through layered colour and gesture, the paintings mimic the formation of biological and environmental landscapes. Abstraction allows relationships between species, matter and place to remain open and unresolved.
Selected Exhibitions
APT Gallery - The Sun reflected on a Pond at Night - March 2025
Alice Black - Fuego de Tierra - April - May 2024
Bomb Factory, Group show - December 2023
Studio West, Now Introducing - Nov - December 2023
Royal College of Art, Prussia Cove Exhibition - Septemeber 2023
Beijing Fashion week - September 2023
Annely Juda, Gather to Loose - July - August 2023
Royal College of Art, MA Degree show - July 2023
Two Day show, The White Space - April 2023
2030 Collective, Royal College of Art - December 2022
Mal:Mal X Danuser & Ramirez, What the Future Holds  - September 2023
Coningsby Gallery - April 2022 
Gallery 46 - April 2022 
SET Studios - February 2022


Battersea public art installation and workshop - Battersea park, London - June 2023
Bomb Factory lino printing public workshop - Holbon - September 2023
Life drawing class - Croatia - September 2025

Lectures
University of the Underground - December 2022
Nottingham Trent University - March 2023
Esher College - May 2023 
Nottingham Trent University - March 202

Residencies
RCA residency at Prussia Cove - September 2023