Biography

Rachel Joy is a Melbourne based visual artist working both locally and internationally in the mediums of printmaking, sculpture and drawing. Her work is concerned with exposing the constructed nature of place, history and identity in the collective consciousness. Rachel has won public art commissions and collaborated with companies of international renown such as Opera Victoria and Snuff Puppets Theatre Company. This year her prints will be shown in Berlin, New York, San Francisco, and Sophia in Bulgaria. She is published in books and journals and her work has been exhibited at a range of galleries and public spaces internationally and throughout Australia.

Poster Presentation

Exploring Our Feral Hearts: Non-Indigenous artists and the legacy of colonial violence in Australia, a multidisciplinary approach.
Contemporary Australia has a fragile fragmented identity but it sometimes comes together in beautiful and unexpected ways. Rachel Joy, in her recent suite of prints and printstallations Feral Family Portraits achieves this by humorously positioning pioneering Australians as dangerous feral animals. In her practice Joy revels in the collision of printmaking with sculpture and street art. Her poster presentation for Impact 8 uses Feral Family Portraits, as a case study to show how the sites chosen to install the images and the democratic nature of public space work to expose the constructed nature of our history and sense of community.