Rachel Howard (born 1969) is a contemporary artist. She is married to Hugh Allan; they have four children and live and work in London. Howard was raised in a Quaker household . She graduated from Goldsmith's College in 1992 and became a studio assistant for Damien Hirst 1992-1996. Between 2005 and 2008 her work addressed the subject of suicide after the loss of a friend, sourcing her subject matter from forensic websites. Over the years religion has been a recurring subject, her Sin Paintings were exhibited in New York at the Bohen Foundation Between 2005-2009 Howard worked on her first commission, titled "Repetition is Truth - via dolorosa".The series is based on the Stations of the Cross but is also a broader commentary on the universality of human rights abuses and people’s capability for cruelty towards each other.