Rachel Mackay is an Australian artist working across video, sculpture, painting and installation. Her practice examines the body as porous, shifting and shaped through its relationships with cultural, spatial, material and environmental forces. Moving between representation, abstraction and performance, her work explores unstable states of perception and embodiment, considering the body not as a fixed or contained form, but as something entangled with its surroundings.
Based in Eora/Sydney, Mackay 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 currently an artist in residence at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf in Sydney (2026).
