Rachel Mackay is an Australian artist working across painting, sculpture, video and installation whose practice explores what it means to inhabit a body in a contemporary, posthuman condition. Through painterly distortion, material play and performative actions, she questions what a body means today and how it feels to live inside one. Central to her practice is the attempt to capture the strangeness of lived experience through the surreal and uncanny, producing work that is visceral and corporeal.
Based in Sydney, she completed a Master of Fine Art at the National Art School in 2024. She has been a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize (2022, 2024, 2025), the Fishers Ghost Prize (2025), the Environmental Art & Design Prize, MAG&M (2025), the Wollongong Art Prize (2025), the Lane Cove Art Award (2025) and the Wyndham Art Prize (2026). She is a 2026 artist in residence at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf in Sydney.
