Rachel Mackay is an Australian artist working across painting, sculpture, video and installation whose practice explores the experience of inhabiting a body in a contemporary, posthuman context. Through painterly distortion, material play and performative actions, Mackay questions what a body is and what it means to live in one. Her work often takes subversive, surreal and grotesque forms, capturing the strangeness of lived experience and producing work that is visceral and intimately 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.
