About
Rachel Morley is an artist and arts worker based in Wyndham (VIC).
Through analogue photography and photo-collage, her practice explores relationships to place and the construction of memory. Drawing on experiences of insecure housing, her recent photographic works reflect on how power and inequality is created both within the rental market and through urban planning in Melbourne’s outer western suburbs.
Rachel has presented works in public spaces; hanging from rooftops, pasted onto bridges, and beamed from an LED light screen installed above a house. She has held solo gallery exhibitions at Analogue Academy (2022) and The Annex (2023), and has shown in group exhibitions at Trocadero Projects, Louis Joel Gallery, the Old Bar Gallery and The Artists Guild. Her work 'Housing should not be for profit' was shortlisted for the 2023 Wyndham Art Prize.
Rachel currently works with Platform Arts as the Digital Communications Coordinator, and is a Research Fellow with Deakin University’s Public Art Commission.
CV
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
Kingston Boulevard (solo), The Annex, Werribee, 21-27 August 2023.
dream life (solo), Analogue Academy, Geelong, 17-29 Sep, 2022.
MOVIE (curated), Trocadero Art Space, Footscray, 15 May - 01 Jun, 2019.
Efflorescence (group), The Artists Guild, Docklands, 11-25 Jan, 2019.
Interiorities (group), The Artists Guild, Docklands, 30 Aug - 20 Sep, 2018.
QUEER. HERE. (group), The Old Bar Gallery, Fitzroy, 13-22 July, 2018.
9x5 Exhibition (group), Collingwood Gallery, 13-26 July, 2018.
Erasing Stigma (group), The Old Bar Gallery, Fitzroy, 20-27 May, 2018.
GRANTS, LECTURES, WORKSHOPS & OTHER PROJECTS
Creative Development Grant, funded by Wyndham City Council, Jan-June 2023.
Hyper-local forums (online lecture), Platform LAB, Oct 2021.
Exhale (public art installation), MPavilion, Mar 2021.
Collecting & Collage Workshop (online), Platform Arts, Sep 2020.
Angel Exchange, initiated by Zara Sully through Bus Projects, 2020.
Cover artwork, Antithesis Journal Vol 28: Binary, Oct 2018.
EMPLOYMENT
Digital Communications Coordinator, Platform Arts, Feb 2020 - present.
Research Assistant, Public Art Commission, Aug 2021 - present.
Producer, Workshops & Storyfest, Platform Arts, Jan 2021 - May 2021.
Social Media Coordinator, Trocadero Art Space, Jan 2019 - Sep 2021.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, The University of Melbourne, 2015-2018.
→ Majors Art History & French