Rachael Haynes is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. Her art practice explores the limits of language and subjectivity, and re-examines art history and philosophy in relation to gender politics. In her drawing installations and performative video works, Haynes performs a playful mixing of language codes and systems – drawn from abstraction, conceptual art, pop music, modernist literature and philosophical traditions – and enacts a gendered ‘redrawing’ of these texts.

Rachael has exhibited her work in Australia and internationally, most recently with solo exhibitions – A BIG IDEA transmitted pathetically Bus Projects (Melbourne), Muscle-flex Kings ARI (Melbourne), and I build my dwelling Metro Arts (Brisbane); and in group exhibitions – SEXES Performance Space (Sydney), The feeling will pass FirstDraft (Sydney) and Going South Screen Space (Melbourne). She has been awarded the Melville Haysom Memorial Scholarship (Queensland Art Gallery) and the Eddie Hopkins Memorial Drawing Prize (Queensland College of Art). She undertook a Residency at The Lock-Up Cultural Centre, Newcastle in 2011 and presented Food For Thought, a key project in the 2012 Next Wave Festival, with Level.

Haynes completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Arts at the Queensland University of Technology in 2009, with the support of an Australian Postgraduate Award and her research interests include gender politics, alternative exhibition spaces and feminist pedagogy within the visual arts. Rachael has been involved with Brisbane ARI’s since 2003 and is the Gallery Director of Boxcopy, an artist run organisation dedicated to supporting artists to experiment and present new works in a critical context. In 2010 Rachael formed LEVEL with Alice Lang and Courtney Coombs, a feminist collective and artist-run initiative focused on generating dialogue about gender and contemporary art practice.

Image: Untitled (Angry), ink on cardboard, 40 x 30cm, 2011.

Rachael will feature in the annual Brisbane Emerging Art Festival Visual Art Showcase.

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