I’m working on a new website to eventually match some of the transitions I’ve made since the pandemic. For now this site provides an archive of past work, and invites collaboration. I am currently working on a film with UQ Art Museum about the Great Barrier Reef, and doing a Cert 4 in Nutrition Coaching.

I am a writer/artist, researcher, educator and advocate, born in an industrial harbour city called Gladstone in Queensland, Australia, on the unceded lands of the Gooreng Gooreng people. I lived most of my life on the east coast of Australia before pursuing further professional development in Europe (NL/DE from 2009-2020).

I have a BA in Literature from the University of Queensland and an MA (Cum Laude) in Media and Culture from the University of Amsterdam. My Phd was addressing the rollout of fracking in North Australia before I took time off to recover from illness, but you can see the feature documentary I made from that research at http://www.infractionsdocumentary.net

My critical writing has been published by Eflux Journal, Cambridge Scholars Press, MIT Press, Postcolonial Studies, and RealTime Arts, in museum publications, networked ebooks (V2 Institute for Unstable Media), independent exhibition catalogues and DIY zines. I have been a recipient of literature, new media and visual arts grants from KW Berlin, the University of Amsterdam, the Australia Council for the Arts, and Arts Queensland.

My artistic work has been presented or exhibited at Qalandiya International (Jerusalem), Tate Liverpool (Liverpool), David Roberts Art Foundation (London), Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane), Museum of Yugoslav History (Belgrade), and upcoming at Eflux (NYC) and Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven).

Qualifications:

BA English and Comparative Literature, University of Queensland / Monash University, 2003
MA Media and Culture (Cum Laude), University of Amsterdam, 2011

Post-academic residency, Jan van Eyck Academie, 2013-14.

Phd (paused) Goldsmiths Centre for Research Architecture, London

Awards:

Mondrians Fellowship in Ecology, Sandburg Art Institute NL, 2022

Nomination, Keith Haring Award for Art and Activism, Bard College NY 2020

KW Production Series Grant, with support by Julia Stoschek Foundation and OUTSET 2019

Australia Council For the Arts, New Work Grant, 2019
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum, Cinema Award, 2018

Australia Council for the Arts, Exhibition Project Funding, 2018

Van Abbemuseum new work commission  2017

Arts Queensland New Work Grant, for Frontier Imaginaries No1 exhibition 2016

Mondrian Fonds, 1yr Professional Development Grant: Post-academic research, Jan van Eyck 2013-14

Amsterdam Merit Scholarship, for outstanding non-EU Masters studying at University of Amsterdam 2008

Brisbane Lord Mayors Emerging Artist Fellowship 2008

Story of the Future Grant for New Work (Australia Council Literature Board) 2007

Runway, National Emerging Artist Scholarship (Australia Council New Media Board) 2005

Professional Positions:

Seminar Leader, ‘At the Limits of the Writerly’, How to Do Things with Theory program, Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, NL, 2014-2022.

Curatorial and Special Projects Consultant at Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (2008-2011) the only non-profit media art organisation dedicated to profiling, biennial exhibiting and networking the Asia Pacific region.

Curator of Film, Video and New Media at the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art and Australian Cinémathèque (2004-2008) the publicly-funded contemporary international art and film museum in Brisbane, Australia.

Program Co-Manager and editor at This is Not Art (2002 – 2003) the independent international media art festival in Newcastle, Australia.

Program Co-Manager of the National Student Media Conference (2002), Newcastle, Australia.

Curatorial member, Place, Ground and Practice working group of the Pacific Rim New Media Summit, ISEA, San Jose USA (2006).

See also my linkedin profile for more info: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/racheloreilly