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.
CV
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
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
“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
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