Rae Haynes (she/ they) is a contemporary artist and educator who lives and works in Meanjin/ Brisbane, Australia. Rae’s art practice engages with feminist archives, collective agency and care ethics by examining the social and personal constructs of language and gender. Rae completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Arts (2009) with the support of an Australian Postgraduate Award for research at the Queensland University of Technology, and is now a Senior Lecturer (Contemporary Art/ Visual Arts) at QUT.
Rae has been actively involved with independent galleries since 2010 – as the Gallery Director of Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space (2012-2018), a board director for the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) and a member of the Engagement Council for the University of Queensland Art Museum. Rae was also a founding member of the feminist art collective LEVEL (2010 – 2018). Rae’s writing on feminism and art has been published in international journals including Feminist Review, Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, Journal of Australian Studies, Educational Philosophy and Theory and was also included in the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism (2019).
Contact
Email: r.haynes@qut.edu.au
I acknowledge the Turrbal people as the traditional custodians of the unceded lands on which I live.
RAE HAYNES 