Bio
Rachel Mackay (b. 1988) is a multidisciplinary Australian artist whose work spans painting, sculpture and moving-image. Central to her work is the female body, most often her own, used as both subject and medium. Her body becomes a shifting site; simultaneously personal and collective, knowable and unknowable, human and other. Through this lens, Mackay explores identity and embodiment as fluid and permeable.
Mackay has exhibited extensively in Sydney, with her work held in both national and international collections. She has been a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize (2022, 2024, 2025), the Fishers Ghost Prize (2025), the Environmental Art & Design Prize at Manly Art Gallery & Museum (2025) and the Lane Cove Art Award (2025). Mackay completed a Master of Fine Art at the National Art School in 2024 and is an upcoming artist in residence at Woollahra Gallery (2026).
