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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. 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

2004

PhD Fine Arts

UNSW Art & Design, Sydney

UNSW Sydney - Bachelor of Fine Arts - Honours Class 1

2002

University of Wollongong - Bachelor of Creative Arts

Education

2009

About

 

Rochelle Haley’s practice is engaged with painting, drawing and movement to explore relationships between bodies and physical environments. Working with dancers, her painting installation and performance works investigate space structured around the sensation of the moving body. Haley is interested in merging compositional strategies of painting with choreographic patterns, experimenting with abstraction at the boundaries of disciplines to discover how movement of bodies can be expressed and felt by audiences. Overall Haley’s work re-imagines material surfaces of representation by discovering methods that are sensory, kinaesthetic, affective and rhythmic.

 

Haley is a senior lecturer at UNSW Art & Design, where she completed a PhD in 2009. She is currently involved in international research projects ‘Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum’ and ‘Dancing with the Non-Human; the Aesthetics of Encounter’, contributing her expertise in the convergences between visual arts and dance in gallery contexts.

 

In 2022 Rochelle presented a large scale installation and performance commissioned for Bundanon Museum’s inaugural exhibition. Profiled in The Guardian, it extended Rochelle's collaboration with Ivey Wawn and Angela Goh at the intersection of painting and choreography. In 2020 Rochelle was selected as an Artspace One Year Studio Artist and her major commission EVER SUN was presented by Performance Space in Carriageworks' Public Space for Liveworks 2020, In 2021 the work was reiterated in a City of Sydney public art commission with two live performances for the 2021 Laneways program. In 2020 & 2017 Haley was recipient of an Australia Council Arts Grants, Copyright Agency Ignite Career Fund, Create NSW Artist Project Grant, and a Critical Path Residency bursary. Haley has staged 12 solo exhibitions and has participated in over 47 group and curated shows at leading national venues including UQ Museum, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney Artbar and UNSW Galleries. Her work has been profiled on ABC Radio National, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Art Monthly Australia, The Art Life, Artist Profile Magazine, Art Collector and Das Platforms.

 

Haley’s works are held in the collections of Artbank, NSW Attorney Generals Department, Australian Catholic University, Gadens Lawyers, Principle Advisory Services and Hijjas Kasturi Associates. Haley has been artist in residence at Artspace, Sydney, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France; Performing Arts Forum, St Erme, France; Drawing Spaces, Lisbon, Portugal; Rimbun Dahan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Bundanon, NSW, Australia.

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EDUCATION

 

2009 

 

 

2004

 

 

2002   

 

PhD Fine Arts

UNSW Art & Design, Sydney

                

Bachelor of Fine Arts - First Class Honours

UNSW Art & Design, Sydney

 

Bachelor of Creative Arts - Deans merit listed

Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, Wollongong

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2019

 

2017

 

2017

 

2015

 

2012

 

2011 

 


             

  

Interval, Galerie Pompom, Sydney

 

AFTERGLOW, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery

 

Bare Loggia, Galerie Pompom, Sydney

 

Through Form, Galerie Pompom, Sydney

 

Dead Precious, Galerie Pompom, Sydney

 

Redraw, drawing performance, Graça Brandão Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

 


 

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

 

2022

2021

2019

2019

2019

 

2018

2018

 

2018

 

2018

 

 

2018

 

 

2017

 

 

2017

 

 

2017

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

             


        

 

52 Actions, Artspace touring exhibition 2022-25, Penrith Regional Gallery

From Impulse to Action, Bundanon Museum, NSW

Looking at Painting, Casula Powerhouse

Second Sight, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane

Flat Earth Society, Cement Fondu, Sydney

Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks

John Fries Award, UNSW Galleries, curated by Consuelo Cavaniglia

 

DOCUMENTS, ALTERNATIVES #3, BSAD, Bath Spa University

SPRING 1883, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne

ACT Festival, The Arts and Creative Technology Center (ACT), Gwangju, South Korea

DOCUMENTS, ALTERNATIVES #2, Verge Gallery, University of Sydney

 

DOCUMENTS, ALTERNATIVES #1, Airspace Gallery, Stoke on Trent, UK

 

re-pair,The Big Anxiety Festival, UNSW Art & Design Black Box, Sydney

 

Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks (represented by Galerie Pompom)

 

Sydney Film Festival Hub – Sydney Contemporary Exhibition, Town Hall, Sydney

 

Golden Hour ArtBar Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2010

 

2010

 

 

2009               

 

2009               

 

2008

 

2007   

Gesture and Trace, Drawing Spaces, Lisbon, Portugal

 

Sadur Menimbul Senam, Rimbun Dahan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia  

 

Land Incorporated, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

 

Land Incorporated, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney

 

Erasable Scars, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney

 

Wonder Whites, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney

2016

 

2016

 

2015

 

2015

 

2015

 

2014               

 

 

2014               

 

2013      

 

 

2013

 

 

2013

 

2012

 

2011

 

2011               

 

2009    

 

 

2009  

 

 

2008               

                         

 

2006                     

 

2005

 

2005 

 

The Alternative Document, University of Lincoln, UK

 

Solid Gold Easy Action, Galerie Pompom, Sydney

 

Patternation, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney

 

The Understory, Jason Moss Studio, Sydney

 

Drawing Now 15, A&D Space, UNSW, Sydney

Quo Vadis: the last drawing show, UNSW Galleries, Sydney

 

Fleet, Metro Arts, Brisbane

 

The Carpentry of Speculative Things, Alaska Projects, Sydney

 

Scissor, Paper, Rock (the boat), Penrith Regional Gallery

 

Rue de Belleville, Galerie Pompom, Sydney

 

Group Show, Galerie Pompom, Sydney

 

Group Show, Taksu Gallery, Bali, Indonesia

 

Zooplasty, Helen Gory Gallery, Prahran, Victoria

 

Tanah Air, Rimbun Dahan Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia  

 

Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, ARTSPACE, Sydney

 

9 Shades of White, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney

 

CIGE, Exhibition Hall China World Trade Centre, Beijing

 

(Going) Out There, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Paddington

 

Fading Lines, National College of Art, Lahore, Pakistan

Spatial Forms, UNSW Galleries, Sydney

 

The Pharmacy of Love & Hate, ALASKA projects ArtBar, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

 

Bedknobs & Broomsticks, collaborative painting exhibition with Monika Behrens, MOP, Sydney

 

Como é que podes ver o meu movimento, se ele não é perceptível ao olhar, collaborative drawing performance with choreographer Sofia Silva, Olga Roriz Company, Lisbon, Portugal

 

Pass, drawing performance in collaboration with choreographer Marion Ruchti, Performing Arts Forum, St-Erme, France

 


 

 

 

COLLABORATIONS

 

2014               

 

2013                              

 

 

2011                             

 

 

2011                                

 

 

 

 

2010              

 

                                          


                              

 

  

Gesture and Trace, drawing performance in collaboration with Drawing Spaces, Lisbon, Portugal

 

Pleasure Garden, site-specific installation with Monika Behrens, Kuala Lumper, Malaysia

 

Strings, drawing performance in collaboration with choreographer Bilqis Hijjas, The Actors Studio, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

 

Pudu Prison, collaboration with Monika Behrens, Runway issue 15: Lies

2010                             

 

2010               

 

 

2010               

 

 

 

2009                        

                         

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Haley, Rochelle. 2018. 'Constructions of the moving body: drawing and dancing', Studies in Theatre and Performance, 38:3, 289-301, DOI: 10.1080/14682761.2018.1506966

 

Haley, Rochelle. 2017. ‘Elastic Perspective: The Diagonal Line and the Production of Deep Space’. Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice, vol.2, no.1

 

Haley, Rochelle. 2016. 'Drawing the Immaterial Object of Dance'. Studio Research Journal, issue 4

 

Haley, Rochelle. 2015. 'The Aesthetics of Change: Dancing the Line.' International Journal of the Image, vol. 5, no. 5

 

Haley, Rochelle. 2014. 'Towards an Aesthetics of Change', presented at Fifth International Conference on the Image, Berlin, Germany, 29 - 30 October 2014

 

Haley, Rochelle. 2014. ‘A Loose Subjectivity’, Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Autumn 2014

 

Haley, Rochelle. 2013. ‘Redraw’, Almeida, Paulo L; Duarte, Miguel B.; Barbosa, José T. (2013). Drawing in the University Today - Conference Proceedings. Porto: I2ADS-FBAUP, ISBN 978-989-97856-6-3

 

Haley, Rochelle, Behrens, M. 2009. ‘Pudu Prison’, Runway, Issue 15: Lies, pp. 8-12

 

Haley, Rochelle. 2007. ‘Making (Third) Nature in the Green Heart’, in Windhausen, Miriam; Evelein, Annelou. (2007). The Artificial Land - Conference Proceedings. Utrecht, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Utrecht (CBKU), Netherlands ISBN 978-90-74690-44-7

 

Haley, Rochelle. 2006. ‘Substance Over Surface; Centennial Avenue series by Debra Philips’, Photofile, Vol. 77, Autumn 2006, 42-43

 

 

NSW Artists’ Grant, NAVA

 

Marrickville Council Independent Artist Grant

 

Arts NSW Quick Response Grant

 

Artist in residence - Olga Roriz Company, Lisbon, Portugal

 

Artist in residence – Artspace, Sydney

 

Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant

 

Artist in residence – Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris

 

Artist in residence – PAF, St. Erme, France

 

Artist in residence – Drawing Spaces, Lisbon, Portugal

 

Artist in residence - Rimbun Dahan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

 

Artist in residence - Bundanon Trust, NSW

 

Australian Postgraduate Award, UNSW

 

University Postgraduate Award, UNSW

2012   

 

2012                             2011                             

2011

 

 

2010-2011

 

2010                             

2010               

 

2010 

 

2010   

 

2009   

 

 

2008 – 2009

 

2007-2008

 

2005-2006

Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, 'Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum' UNSW, AGNSW, NGV, TATE, MUMA

Australia Council for the Arts - Career Development Grant

Artspace One Year Studio Resident

 

Artist in residence - Kedewatan Residency Program, Ubud, Indonesia

Finalist – Sunshine Coast Award

Finalist – John Fries Award

Open Studio Residency - Critical Path, Sydney

Australia Council for the Arts - Arts projects for individuals and groups

 

Choreographic Futures residency with Ame Hendersen – The Mill, Adelaide, supported by travel bursary from Critical Path, NSW.

 

Artist in residence – Gunyah Artist Residency, NSW

 

Copyright Agency Ignite Career Fund

 

Create NSW Artist Project Grant

 

Artist in residence – Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris

 

Finalist - Hazelhurst Art on Paper Prize

 

Finalist – Portia Geach Prize

 

Artist in residence – Artspace, Sydney

 

 

 

AWARDS / RESIDENCIES / GRANTS

 

2021-24

 

 

2020

2020

2020

 

 

2019

 

2018

2018

 

2017

 

 

2017

 

 

2017

 

2017

 

2017

 

2013                     

 

2013  

 

2013

 

2012 - 2013

  

COMMISIONS / COLLECTIONS

 

Australian Catholic University Collection, Brisbane & Ballarat

 

Artbank, Sydney

 

Gadens Lawyers, Sydney

 

NSW Attorney Generals Department, Justice Precinct Building, Parramatta

 

Principle Advisory Services, Sydney

 

Hijjas Kasturi Associates, Kuala Lumpur

 

 

 

MEDIA CITATIONS AND REVIEWS OF WORK

 

PRINT

 

Emma-Kate Wilson ‘Flat Earth Society’, Art Almanac, November 2019, pp.41-43

Cindy Lynch, ‘Finalist Beats Over 550’, Inner West Times, May 30, p.6 & Canterbury Bankstown Torch, May 30, p.46

 

Caryn Metclafe, ‘Connecting Art with Performing’, Canterbury Bankstown Express, May 29, 2018 p.8

Linda Morris, ‘Hazelhurst Regional Gallery paints a picture in dance’, Sydney Morning Herald, September 19, 2017, p.9

 

Tess Maunder, "What’s Next – Rochelle Haley", Art Collector, September, 2017

 

Jill Grant, “Rochelle Haley – Emerge”, Artist Profile Magazine, March 2013, p.54

 

Michael Fitzgerald, “Dead Precious”, Open Gallery, The Sydney Morning Herald, 22.9.12

 

Justin Burke, ‘Funeraries at Tiffany’s’, The Australian, September 4, 2012, p.14

 

Andrew Frost, “A Meeting of the Minds”, Sydney Morning Herald, April 8 2011, p.14

 

Rosheen Fatima, “Moves & Sorts”, Time Out KL, January 2010, Mongoose Publishing. p.72

 

Denise Knight, "Generation Next", Uniken issue #53, Sep-Oct 2009, UNSW, pp.10-13

 

Jo Bobsen ed, "Australian Art Collector's 2008 50 of Australia's Most Collectable Artists", Incubate, winter 2008, Marketing & Communications, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, p.6

 

Jane O'Sullivan, "50 of Australia's Most Collectable Artists" Australian Art Collector, Issue # 43, Jan-Mar 2008, p.44

 

ONLINE

 

Emma-Kate Wilson ‘Flat Earth Society’, Art Almanac, 29 Oct 2019

Ed Ayers, ‘Art on a flat-screen Earth’, The Art Show, ABC Radio National, 9 Oct 2019

 

Amelia Navascues, ‘Flat Earth Society’, 2SER Radio, 5 Oct2019

Lucy McNabb, ‘Afterglow: Ever wished you could get closer to the artwork?’, Concrete Playground, September 1, 2017

 

“Putting yourself in the picture at Hazelhurst”, The Leader, September 13, 2017

 

Andrew Frost, ‘Dead Precious’, The Art Life, 14 September 2012

 

Lillian McKnight, ‘Interview: Rochelle Haley’, pages digital, 17 September 2012

 

Nick Garner, ‘Interview, Rochelle Haley’, DAS Platforms, 22 September 2012

 

Fleur MacDonald, 'Galerie pompom - Rochelle Haley', sixtoeight.net, 22 September 2012

 

Nazia Hafiz, ‘Arts Review: Dead Precious - Rochelle Haley Solo Exhibition - Galerie pompom’, The AU Review, 22 September 2012

 

Fiona McIntosh, ‘Stepping out in springtime’, Art Out There, 18 September 2012 

 

Cleo Braithwaite, ‘Rochelle Haley; Dead Precious’, The Thousands, August 29, 2012

 

“Rochelle Haley ‘Dead Precious’”, Broadsheet Sydney, 28 August 2012

 

Emily Bour, “Helen Gory Galerie Trades Places With MOP Projects”, Broadsheet, 14 September 2011

 

Jennifer Hart, ‘Gesture & Trace’, Drawing Research Network, 1 June 2010

 

Jennifer Hart, ‘Strings’, Drawing Research Network, 9 March 2010

 

Gerry Mak, ‘Rochelle Haley Video’, Lost At E Minor, 14 March 2010

 

 

 

CATALOGUE ESSAYS

 

Consuelo Cavaniglia, 'John Fries Award 2018', catalogue essay, UNSW Galleries, September 2018

Jana Perkovic, 'AFTERGLOW' catalogue essay, September 2017

Sam Spurr, ‘Processual Painting’, Galerie Pompom, September 2015

 

Daniel Mudie Cuningham, ‘Zooplasty’. MOP publications, September 2011

 

Prue Gibson, ‘Bedknobs and Broomsticks’, MOP publications, March 2011

 

Martin Thomas, ‘Sadur Menibul Senam’, Rimbun Dahan, Feburary 2010

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