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PhD (Queensland University of Technology), GCAP (Queensland University of Technology)
Dr Rachael (Rae) Haynes is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art and is the Academic Lead - Research Training in the School of Creative Practice at QUT.
Rachael completed a PhD, an exploration of the ethics of exhibition practice examining encounters between artworks and audiences in terms of difference, in 2009, with the support of an Australian Postgraduate Award for research. Rachael's current research investigates feminist ethics, archives, care and activism through pedagogical, curatorial, participatory and installation strategies.
Recent creative works and projects have been exhibited at the Wallach Art Gallery, New York (2021), IMA, Brisbane (2020), Museum of Brisbane (2019-20), Kuiper Projects (Brisbane, 2018), BUS Projects (Melbourne, 2017), Blindside Gallery (Melbourne, 2015), and FirstDraft (Sydney, 2014). Collaborative projects with the feminist art collective LEVEL have been presented in Australia including at ACCA (Melbourne, 2017), GOMA (Brisbane, 2014), MCA (Sydney, 2013) and Performance Space (Sydney, 2012).
Rachael has been actively involved with independent and artist-run activity since 2010 and has served on the Board of Directors for the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), was a founding member of the feminist collective LEVEL (2010-2018) and the Gallery Director of Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space (2012-2018).
Rachael's writing on feminism and art has been published in several journals including Feminist Review, Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, the Journal of Australian Studies, Educational Philosophy and Theory and was also included in the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism (2019).
Projects
Additional information
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- Curatorial/Juried selection of work for Exhibition Recording/Screening etc.
- Reference year
- 2021
- Details
- Selected for exhibition '15 Artists', annual acquisitive prize Redcliffe Art Gallery, Queensland.
- Type
- Editor/Contributor of a Prestigious Work of Reference
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- Chapter included in 'The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism'. Edited by Tash Oren and Andrea Press. Routledge: London and New York.
- Type
- Committee Role/Editor or Chair of an Academic Conference
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Member of organizing committee for 2016 Conference "De-story the Joint", held at QUT, June 29th - 31st 2016.
- Type
- Committee Role/Editor or Chair of an Academic Conference
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Member of organizing committee for 2016 Conference "Adaptation", held at QUT 29th - 30th September, 2016.
- Type
- Curatorial/Juried selection of work for Exhibition Recording/Screening etc.
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Selected as a Finalist for the R&M McGivern Art Prize, ArtSpace at Maroondah Gallery, VIC (16th September - 20th November).
- Type
- Reviewer for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Reviewer for special edition of Journal of Australian Studies, Vol. 40 Issue 2 Feminism and the Museum.
- Haynes, R., (2022). Threads of Resistance: feminist activism, collaborative making and care ethics. In J. Millner & G. Coombs (Eds.), Care Ethics and Art (pp. 119–130). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/226707
- Haynes, R., (2021). Climate Targets, Together We March, Here and Now [Visual Art Work]. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/226852
- Haynes, R., (2020). Small Acts of Resistance and Slow Revolutions [Visual Art Work]. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/226495
- Haynes, R., (2020). Threads of Resistance [Visual Art Work]. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/204707
- Haynes, R., (2020). Together and Let's Take Back Our Space [Visual Art Work]. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/226494
- Haynes, R. & Pedersen, C. (2019). Acting out: Performing feminisms in the contemporary art museum. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism, 218–227. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/234872
- Pedersen, C. & Haynes, R. (2019). Double blind: Supervising women as creative practice-led researchers. Feminist Theory in Diverse Productive Practices: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Gender and Sexualities Reader, 6, 181–193. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211977
- Haynes, R. & Pedersen, C. (2018). To care for self and others: a collaborative conversation. In A. Black & S. Garvis (Eds.), Women activating agency in academia: Metaphors, manifestos and memoir (pp. 174–184). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/119123
- Haynes, R., Pedersen, C., Coombs, C. & Franzmann, C. (2018). RIGHT NOW! Presented at: RIGHT NOW! [Visual Art Work]. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/116865
- Haynes, R., Pedersen, C., Coombs, C. & Franzmann, C. (2018). We need to talk - Sharing the world [Visual Art Work]. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/132148
- Artists as Living A(na)rchivists: An Examination of Living Archives as Participatory Media for the Artist- Run Sector
Professional Doctorate, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Courtney Pedersen - Spatial Perspective Mapping: Interdisciplinary and Virtual Practice in 1920's Berlin and Contemporary Art
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Daniel McKewen, Emeritus Professor Andrew Mcnamara - Art-Science Collaborations: Investigating Eco-centric Frameworks through Contemporary Art to Encourage Sustainable More-than-human Futures |
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Keith Armstrong - Touching Madness: Utilising Creative Practice as a Means of Investigating Mental Health Stigma
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Leah King-Smith - Developing artist-honeybee collaborations to promote public discourse around sustaining futures
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Keith Armstrong
- Artist-run Initiatives and Community: a Practice-Led Examination of How Artist-Based Communities are Formed and Understood in Contemporary Australian Art (2022)
- The Lure of Memory: Embodying and Reconstructing Fragmented Narratives Through Contemporary Art (2021)
- Tuning to Thresholds: An Object-Oriented Study of Affect and Contemporary Art Practice (2021)
- HOSTING Food-based Artworks Formed and Altered by Performance (2019)
- Melancholy and the Memorial: Representing Loss, Grief and Affect in Contemporary Visual Art (2018)