Rachel Mackay is an Australian artist working across painting, sculpture, video and installation. Her practice examines how bodies are constructed through cultural, spatial and material systems, using distortion, fragmentation and material experimentation to question how the body is seen, felt and understood in a contemporary condition. Her works shift between representation and abstraction, often engaging with the instability of perception, exploring the body as something porous, shifting and produced through its environment rather than contained within it.
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).
