Drawing on her background experience working in social care services, Racheal Crowther’s practice explores the fragile boundary between care and control. Repurposing objects and artefacts that are charged with the residue of labour and routine (waiting rooms, pharmaceutical branding, abandoned day centres), Crowther exposes the failures of bureaucratic systems and the collapse of institutional structures that shape daily life for many people.

Expanding her ongoing exploration of class, surveillance, corporate and state power, Crowther’s immersive installation investigates scent as a covert instrument of influence. Her interest lies in olfactory management: odourrelated legislation, social hygiene and smell pollution. Crowther examines how scent is weaponised across built environments: retail outlets, corporate offices, military operations, and carceral systems. Her work confronts the subtle yet profound ways that scent conditions behaviour, enforces norms, and manipulates perception-its sensory imprint, perceived via air molecules, affects us physically, psychologically and socially.

Racheal Crowther’s recent solo exhibitions include: Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin (2025); 243 Luz, Margate (2023); Ginny on Frederick, London (2022).

Liquid Trust is produced by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and forms part of a long-term project commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London, in partnership with TBG+S and Bétonsalon, Paris.

The project is supported by an Arts Council Project Award.