About
Rochelle Haley is an artist and Senior Lecturer at University of New South Wales, School of Art & Design Sydney. Her practice is engaged with painting and choreography to explore relationships between moving bodies and physical environments. Working with dancers, her painting installation and performance works explore intersections between colour, gesture and light, discovering harmonies between audiences, performers and architectures. Haley is interested in painterly and choreographic modes of composition, experimenting with abstract form and colour embodying temporality within space. Haley is developing a new choreographic performance commission, A Sun Dance, for the National Gallery of Australia in early 2024, supported by Australia Council VACS Major Commissioning Grant. A Sun Dance is a key case study for the Australian Research Council funded project, Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum, testing new approaches to performance preservation with TATE Conservation.
Education
2009
PhD Fine Arts - UNSW Art & Design, Sydney
2004
UNSW Sydney - Bachelor of Fine Arts - Honours Class 1
2002
University of Wollongong - Bachelor of Creative Arts
MUSEUM PERFORMANCE Commissions
2024 (upcoming) A Sun Dance, National Gallery of Australia
2022 Dance on a couch by an open window (after Boyd), Bundanon Museum
2022 Like Nobody’s Watching, Penrith Regional Gallery
2019 The Invention of Depth, Cement Fondu
2018 Marquetry Score, UNSW Galleries
2017 Afterglow, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
2016 Spin, Museum of Contemporary Art
2014 Spatial Forms, UNSW Galleries
PUBLIC ART Commissions
2023 (upcoming)Title TBC HOBART CURRENT commissioned by City of Hobart and Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
2022 RIBBONS Streets as Shared Spaces commissioned by Bathurst Council and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2022 NURSES WALK Rocks Activation commissioned by Place Management NSW and The Rocks
2022 IN THE WINGS commissioned by Australian Theatre for Young People, Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay
2021 ORA VEIL Urashima Taro, commissioned by ORA Restaurant, Waterloo
2021 EVER SUN LANEWAYS City Art Laneways and live dance performances commissioned by City of Sydney
2020 EVER SUN Liveworks Festival 2020, Carriageworks Public Foyer, commissioned by Performance Space
SOLO Exhibitions (select)
2019 Interval, Galerie Pompom
2017 Afterglow, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
2017 Bare Loggia, Galerie Pompom, Sydney
2011 Redraw, Graça Brandão Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2010 Gesture and Trace, Drawing Spaces, Lisbon, Portugal
2010 Sadur Menimbul Senam, Rimbun Dahan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
GROUP Exhibitions (select)
2022 From Impulse to Action, Bundanon Museum, Illaroo
2022 52 Actions, touring with ARTSPACE at Penrith Regional Gallery
2021 Looking at Painting, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
2021 Eversun Laneways for City of Sydney Laneways Project, Sydney
2020 Eversun for Liveworks, Performance Space, Sydney
2019 Second Sight, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
2019 Flat Earth Society, Cement Fondu, Sydney
2019 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
2018 John Fries Award, UNSW Galleries, Sydney
2018 DOCUMENTS, ALTERNATIVES #3, BSAD, Bath Spa University, UK
2017 re-pair, The Big Anxiety Festival, UNSW Art & Design Black Box, Sydney
2017 Sydney Film Festival Hub-Sydney Contemporary, Town Hall, Sydney
GRANTS (select - last 5 years)
2023
2023
2020
2020
2019
2017
2017
2017
Australia Council VACS Major Commissioning Grant: Commissioning and Conserving Choreographic Performance with National Gallery Australia and TATE UK
Create NSW Arts & Cultural Funding Program: Health Science Alliance, Randwick Health and Innovation Precinct Arts and Culture Program
Australian Research Council Linkage Grant: Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum 2021-24, Chief investigators Erin Brannigan (UNSW), Rochelle Haley
Australia Council Career Development Grant: Program of research and skills development informing Ever Sun, sole investigator: Rochelle Haley
PEEK Austrian Federal Government Grant: Dancing with the Non-Human: the Aesthetics of Encounter, Chief investigators Petra Gemeinböck, Marie-Claude Poulin, Rob Saunders, Rochelle Haley, Roos van Berkel
Copyright Agency Ignite Career Fund: Workshops with Fluid Interfaces, MIT Media Lab, sole investigator: Rochelle Haley
Create NSW Artist Project Grant: Workshops with Fluid Interfaces, MIT Media Lab, sole investigator: Rochelle Haley
Australia Council Arts Projects Grant: Afterglow: An expanded painting performance collaboration, sole investigator: Rochelle Haley
Awards / Residencies (select)
2024 Artist in Residence - Health Science Alliance, Randwick Health and Innovation Precinct Arts and Culture Program
2020 Artspace One Year Studio Artist Residency
2019 Finalist – Sunshine Coast Award
2019 Artist in residence – Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
2018 Finalist – John Fries Award
2017 Choreographic Futures residency with Ame Hendersen – The Mill, Adelaide,
Collections
Australian Catholic University Collection, Brisbane & Ballarat campuses
Artbank, Sydney
Gadens Lawyers, Sydney
NSW Attorney Generals Department, Parramatta Justice Precinct
Principle Advisory Services, Sydney
Hijjas Kasturi Associates, Kuala Lumpur
Private collections in Australia, Malaysia, France, USA