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Biography

Rajesh Rana is an artist and urban designer living and working in Belfast. Born in the city in 1968, Rajesh studied architecture and urban design at Queen’s University Belfast and Oxford Brookes University gaining 1st class honours in both disciplines. 

Rajesh’s work has featured landscape and cityscape studies, although the main emphasis of his work is life study and portraiture.

Rajesh has had paintings selected in the 2003 and 2004 annual exhibitions of the Royal Ulster Academy has exhibited at group shows at the Engine Room Gallery, ArtTank, The Tile Refinery and The Kerlin Gallery.  In August 2006 Rajesh was invited to a residency at Cill Realaig artist’s retreat in Co Kerry.

Artist Statement

The MILL project has been of particular interest to me as it has drawn together the spheres of art, architecture and urban design.

I have considered it my role to record the architecture and the character of the built fabric of the Mill. The palette of brick, stone and iron provide a range of colours, textures and forms that are irresistible to this artist. The solidity of the structure and the decorative form of the roof trusses contrast with many of today’s buildings. However, the Mill is a functional building, understated, and that is a large part of its attraction to me.

The current state of the building is of poignant disrepair; it is permanently rain-sodden, over grown with moss, ivy and grass in the gutters. Visiting the Mill is an elemental experience of cold, wind, damp and decay, and this is a quality I have sought to capture in my painting.

Title: Loop Bridge Mill

Medium: Photec Etching

Title: Rain Storm Loop Bridge Mill

Medium: Oil on Canvas