
Dr Rachael Haynes
Faculty of CI, Education & Social Justice,School of Creative Practice,
Visual Arts
Personal details
- Name
- Dr Rachael Haynes
- Position(s)
- Lecturer (Visual Arts)
Faculty of CI, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Practice,
Visual Arts - Discipline *
- Visual Arts and Crafts
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 3253
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 8105
- r.haynes@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
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PhD (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
- Keywords
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Visual Arts, Feminist Ethics, Exhibition Practice
Biography
Rachael Haynes is a Lecturer and the Visual Arts Study Area Coordinator in the School of Creative Practice at QUT. Rachael completed her 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. Her current research investigates feminist ethics, archives, care and activism through pedagogical, curatorial, participatory and installation strategies. Her work has been exhibited widely, most recently with exhibitions at the 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 and internationally, including at ACCA (Melbourne, 2017), GOMA (Brisbane, 2014), the 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 is a member of the Engagement Council for the University of Queensland Art Museum. Her 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).
Teaching
Rachael coordinates the 3rd year Visual Arts Open Studio program and the Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition at QUT. She received a QUT Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, in 2010. 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
Publications
- Pedersen C, Haynes R, (2019) Curating 'Creative Dystocia': Exhibiting the relationship between artists, identity and motherhood in twenty-first century Australian art, Feminist Encounters p1-13
- Haynes R, Pedersen C, (2018) To care for self and others: a collaborative conversation, Women activating agency in academia: Metaphors, manifestos and memoir p174-184
- Haynes R, (2018) Affirmative Action, Presented at: Affirmative Action
- Haynes R, Pedersen C, Coombs C, Franzmann C, (2018) We need to talk - Sharing the world
- Haynes R, Pedersen C, Coombs C, Franzmann C, (2018) RIGHT NOW!, Presented at: RIGHT NOW!
- Haynes R, (2017) Troubling language, Presented at: Troubling language
- Haynes R, Pedersen C, (2016) Acting out: performing feminisms in the contemporary art museum, Journal of Australian Studies p203-214
- Coombs C, Franzmann C, Haynes R, Holtsclaw A, Pedersen C, (2016) Recipes and revolutions: consciousness-raising and feminist picnics, Feminist Review p130-138
- Pedersen C, Haynes R, (2015) Double Blind: Supervising women as creative practice-led researchers, Educational Philosophy and Theory p1265-1276
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
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 - he Lure of Memory: Embodying and Reconstructing Fragmented Narratives Through Contemporary Art
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Charles Robb - Tuning to Thresholds: An Object-Oriented Study of Affect and
Contemporary Art Practice
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Charles Robb - Thesis Title: Artist-Run Initiatives and Institutional Critique in 21st Century Australian Art
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Courtney Pedersen
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Conjuring Alterity: Refiguring The Witch and the Female Scream in Contemporary Art (2019)
- Creating [in]Sincerity: A Study of Sincerity in Contemporary Visual Art Practice (2019)