Haynes completed a PhD in creative practice in 2009 at the Queensland University of Technology with the support of an Australian Postgraduate Award. She has exhibited her solo and collaborative work nationally, most recently with solo exhibitions at KINGS ARI and Bus Projects (Melbourne), and group exhibitions at Performance Space (Sydney), Screen Space (Melbourne) and Griffith University Art Gallery (Brisbane). She has been awarded the Melville Haysom Memorial Scholarship (Queensland Art Gallery) and the Eddie Hopkins Memorial Drawing Prize (Queensland College of Art). Rachael is a founding member of the feminist collective Level, with whom she undertook a Residency at The Lock-Up Cultural Centre, Newcastle (2011); presented Food For Thought, a key project in the 2012 Next Wave Festival; and staged the participatory work ‘We need to talk’, a series of feminist picnics at the MCA, Sydney (2013) and GOMA, Brisbane (2014). Rachael is currently a Lecturer in Creative Practice at Deakin University and the Gallery Director of Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space.
