Dr Rachael Haynes
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Practice,
Visual Arts
Biography
Rachael Haynes is a Lecturer and the Visual Arts Study Area Coordinator 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 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).Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer (Visual Arts)
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Practice,
Visual Arts
Keywords
Visual Arts, Feminist Ethics, Exhibition Practice
Discipline
Visual Arts and Crafts
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- GCAP (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Fellow of The Higher Education Academy National Association for the Visual Arts, Australia Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association Art Association of Australia and New Zealand
Teaching
Rachael coordinates the 3rd year Visual Arts Open Studio program and the Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition at QUT. Her research and teaching focus includes:
- Contemporary international and Australian art
- Feminist art, pedagogy and philosophy
- Curating and exhibition practice
- Artist collectives, ARIs (artist-run initiatives) and alternative institutions
Selected publications
- Haynes R, (2020) Threads of Resistance . [Visual Art Work].
- 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, pp. 181-193.
- Haynes R, (2019) Artist-Run Initiatives as Collaborative Models for Studio Teaching, Proceedings of the 2019 Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) Annual Conference.
- Haynes R, Pedersen C, (2018) To care for self and others: a collaborative conversation. In A Black & S Garvis, Women activating agency in academia: Metaphors, manifestos and memoir, Routledge, pp. 174-184.
- Haynes R, Pedersen C, Coombs C, Franzmann C, (2018) RIGHT NOW! . Presented at: RIGHT NOW! [Visual Art Work].
- Haynes R, Pedersen C, Coombs C, Franzmann C, (2018) We need to talk - Sharing the world . [Visual Art Work].
- Haynes R, Pedersen C, (2016) Acting out: performing feminisms in the contemporary art museum, Journal of Australian Studies, 40 (2), pp. 203-214.
- Coombs C, Franzmann C, Haynes R, Holtsclaw A, Pedersen C, (2016) Recipes and revolutions: consciousness-raising and feminist picnics, Feminist Review, 114 (1), pp. 130-138.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Rachael, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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).
Supervision
Current supervisions
- 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 - Artist-run Initiatives and Community: a Practice-Led Examination of How Artist-Based Communities are Formed and Understood in Contemporary Australian Art
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Courtney Pedersen - Art-Science Collaborations: Investigating Eco-centric Frameworks through Contemporary Art to Encourage Sustainable More-than-human Futures |
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Keith Armstrong - Developing artist-honeybee collaborations to promote public discourse around sustaining futures
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Keith Armstrong
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- 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)