https://rebeccajanemccauley.com R J MCCAULEY Sun, 15 Jun 2025 13:08:09 +0000 https://rebeccajanemccauley.com en https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/Home Sun, 22 Jan 2023 07:06:54 +0000 R J MCCAULEY https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/Home https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/About Sun, 22 Jan 2023 07:06:55 +0000 R J MCCAULEY https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/About 🐡 I am an artist and arts-tangential freelancer based between the south east and the south west of the continent currently known as Australia. The land I live on always was and always will be Aboriginal land. Currently, I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Western Australia, where I am researching an archive of marine sound, natural history collections, and environmental change. I work from my position as a white English and settler-descendant Scottish person; much of what I make is interested in grappling with living in this place, at this time; and often, I collaborate with my partner Aaron Claringbold.&nbsp; I am trained in museum studies, and design. You can see some of my freelance design work here&nbsp;— it has been commissioned for a range of artists and a range of organisations across many projects. From 2017–21 I worked as Operations Manager for experimental feminist art organisation APHIDS, overseeing the funding, presentation and touring of several major works, including at; the 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres, Art Gallery of South Australia (SA), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (Vic), Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (WA), and Printemps de Septembre (Toulouse).&nbsp; 👋🏽&nbsp;👋🏽︎ r.jane.mccauley@gmail.com︎ @rebeccamccauley&nbsp; https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/What-can-I-say-without-touching-the-earth-with-my-hands Sun, 15 Jun 2025 13:08:09 +0000 R J MCCAULEY https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/What-can-I-say-without-touching-the-earth-with-my-hands What can I say without touching the earth with my hands? Rose de Freycinet Gallery, Shire of Shark Bay, 12 September – 12 October 2025 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22951d31c370620a8828d3218112469b4f22d3e86c7329ec80f19060fc30a63c/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_8.jpg" data-mid="239182093" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22951d31c370620a8828d3218112469b4f22d3e86c7329ec80f19060fc30a63c/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_8.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a87c1eb30fedb8dae16d1aed0ca2331da4410e96b478597810f9b16814365351/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_2.jpg" data-mid="239182087" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a87c1eb30fedb8dae16d1aed0ca2331da4410e96b478597810f9b16814365351/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_2.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f8ac86328fc33637e2aad0b10509cf49d0c8431acfee7bc45971edd8b46ebae/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_10.jpg" data-mid="239182095" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f8ac86328fc33637e2aad0b10509cf49d0c8431acfee7bc45971edd8b46ebae/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_10.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5064223df9fb6e8ce02889ed3130a3bca57a533ca3e164abdd988d68a81da00e/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_5.jpg" data-mid="239182090" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5064223df9fb6e8ce02889ed3130a3bca57a533ca3e164abdd988d68a81da00e/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_5.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/692c8be9e099ab2668cc0d98fa808ebc9620af836d47696cba5252d4efc2bcff/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_9.jpg" data-mid="239182094" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/692c8be9e099ab2668cc0d98fa808ebc9620af836d47696cba5252d4efc2bcff/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_9.jpg" /> This exhibition of photographs looks at the way that people interact with and shape the Places they live, and are in turn shaped by them. Initiated by an artist residency in 2024 through Art on the Move and the Shire of Shark Bay, it has been informed by many conversations with people who live and work in Gathaagudu/Shark Bay, on Malgana Country.&nbsp; It features images made alongside workers from the Malgana Rangers, the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Bush Heritage Australia, Gathaagadu Animal Tagging, Shark Bay Fish Factory, as well as tourism operators, and members of the Shark Bay community. Focusing on labour, connection, and the cycles of everyday moments, these photographs highlight this way of being, reminding us of our own responsibilities to where we each reside.LISTEN ︎︎︎ Regional Echoes, RTRfm podcast<img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cae9643c6ec4bb9eb9f0b723a3091c2f2da27478b8697ef508dc4865b07ec7d4/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_3.jpg" data-mid="239182088" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cae9643c6ec4bb9eb9f0b723a3091c2f2da27478b8697ef508dc4865b07ec7d4/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_3.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5598e79a763d128c45273120166b1a73a66ad409885bca67f3d35737e1d85672/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_14.jpg" data-mid="239182099" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5598e79a763d128c45273120166b1a73a66ad409885bca67f3d35737e1d85672/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_14.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3cb08ee260d28154453faeadd30628250d0251b6be5619e1588bd5a73b250bbe/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_12.jpg" data-mid="239182097" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3cb08ee260d28154453faeadd30628250d0251b6be5619e1588bd5a73b250bbe/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_12.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5807e11c74cd53c9e031c4945f807f637b030d86769a2e8c9a1ccae8712c6d3/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_13.jpg" data-mid="239182098" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f5807e11c74cd53c9e031c4945f807f637b030d86769a2e8c9a1ccae8712c6d3/Vibrant_ACRM_What-can-I-say_SharkBay_Documentation_quickselection_ScreenRes_13.jpg" /> This project has been made across Malgana and Whadjuk Noongar Country. Always was, Always will be. It has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, the Regional Exhibition Touring Boost with funding managed by Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport and delivered by ART ON THE MOVE, and supported by Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts’ Studio Program, Joes Printing, and Hillvale Photo. This work has been made with access and support from the Malgana Rangers, the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA), the Shire of Shark Bay, Bush Heritage Australia, Gathaagadu Animal Tracking and SequeiraLab, Shark Bay Fish Factory, Wula Gura Nyinda Eco Cultural Adventures, Perfect Nature Cruises, Oxford University Herbaria, Department of Biology, and members of the Shark Bay community. We would like to thank the many individuals who have given us their time, trust, expertise, and goodwill in the making of this work, https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/Here-s-what-we-know Sun, 22 Jan 2023 07:06:55 +0000 R J MCCAULEY https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/Here-s-what-we-know Here’s what we knowShown as part of The National Photography Prize 2024, Murray Art Museum Albury (NSW), March – September 2024; also shown as part of Counter Sites, Photo Access (ACT) March – April 2025; at Goolugatup Heathcote (WA), June – July 2024; and Hillvale Gallery (Vic), 2 March – 2 April, 2023. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/702cc01120449ac21ff6e209559307db33d4c02a16b2e1ecce72eced396d728f/Here-s-what-we-know_04_web.JPG" data-mid="214410525" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/702cc01120449ac21ff6e209559307db33d4c02a16b2e1ecce72eced396d728f/Here-s-what-we-know_04_web.JPG" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; Consider the telegraph poles, tracing a path walked for a very long time. The bitumen and the boreholes; the rest stops, the monuments, and the highway names. The distance between here and there, collapsed into the size of a holiday, or a weekend away. This work was imaged and conceived across many locations within the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung, Whadjuk Nyoongar, Jinigudera, Yapurarra, Pindjarup, Nyaki Nyaki, Kalarko, Ngadju, Kaalamaya, Wongatha, Mirniny, Wirangu, Barngarla, Kokatha, Arabana, Arrernte, and Meintangk people. Sovereignty was never ceded. Here’s what we know is sort of about driving and tourism and extraction and technology and fantasy. About setting out for very long walks, the visual identity of highways, and the vernacular of the plaques and carved stone that mark the way. About trying to make sense of it all. It’s a slide show of things we’ve seen, and things we think we know; about 21st century mobility and colonial place-making; ice-creams and tesla chargers; and living in this place, at this time, in this way. This project has been in development since 2020, and contains photographs taken since 2016, predominantly along the major highways connecting the south-west and south-east coast, and up to the centre. It was first show at Hillvale Gallery in March 2023, and in 2024 was shortlisted for the National Photography Prize (MAMA).REVIEW ︎︎︎ George Criddle, Here’s what we know, Memo Review READ ︎︎︎ Jake Treacy, (Re)Cruising Utopia, MAMA <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/263bd17b7f071c9c9a31701229b5ee1dbad10bf7112fa7a40f27bd258a73c6ed/Here-s-what-we-know_06_web.JPG" data-mid="214410543" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/263bd17b7f071c9c9a31701229b5ee1dbad10bf7112fa7a40f27bd258a73c6ed/Here-s-what-we-know_06_web.JPG" /> <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da7321c419c2622cfa3bfa9dca8396348f192772f7a14c4feac0ddbfa4bb799d/Here-s-what-we-know_08_web.JPG" data-mid="214410544" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/da7321c419c2622cfa3bfa9dca8396348f192772f7a14c4feac0ddbfa4bb799d/Here-s-what-we-know_08_web.JPG" /> <img width="2560" height="1708" width_o="2560" height_o="1708" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ec6cb17294c07af6ed20a7feedd3192ed209a5cc49f50cb587e0b0c19fd8951/Rebecca-McCauley--Aaron-Claringbold--Heres-what-we-know--2023-National-Photography-Prize-2024--MAMA.-Image-Jeremy-Weihr6064.jpg" data-mid="210205113" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ec6cb17294c07af6ed20a7feedd3192ed209a5cc49f50cb587e0b0c19fd8951/Rebecca-McCauley--Aaron-Claringbold--Heres-what-we-know--2023-National-Photography-Prize-2024--MAMA.-Image-Jeremy-Weihr6064.jpg" /> <img width="2560" height="1707" width_o="2560" height_o="1707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/513e5b15f1ed8a55366e7836dbb887f99cc6f5601e8b860a1bfc5a93d044c45b/Rebecca-McCauley--Aaron-Claringbold--Heres-what-we-know--2023-National-Photography-Prize-2024--MAMA.-Image-Jeremy-Weihr6041.jpg" data-mid="210205118" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/513e5b15f1ed8a55366e7836dbb887f99cc6f5601e8b860a1bfc5a93d044c45b/Rebecca-McCauley--Aaron-Claringbold--Heres-what-we-know--2023-National-Photography-Prize-2024--MAMA.-Image-Jeremy-Weihr6041.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2003" width_o="3000" height_o="2003" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/284073f3f3abc109548c204e2275519bc33bac87dc309dfb9b0bec0f2c0223ab/HWWK_HillvaleGallery_InstallDocumentation_AC_LowRes_11.jpg" data-mid="171685470" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/284073f3f3abc109548c204e2275519bc33bac87dc309dfb9b0bec0f2c0223ab/HWWK_HillvaleGallery_InstallDocumentation_AC_LowRes_11.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae1f95aee5646a9f0344c3bd21aedac3c9750a695b330a245fb38e4274ec2331/sarahpannell_hereswhatweknowopening-11.jpg" data-mid="171685620" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae1f95aee5646a9f0344c3bd21aedac3c9750a695b330a245fb38e4274ec2331/sarahpannell_hereswhatweknowopening-11.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2003" width_o="3000" height_o="2003" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5303fb9f973be9e6475acf17f2936752fa25f521dc430154ea1d4948f05b8a9d/HWWK_HillvaleGallery_InstallDocumentation_AC_LowRes_10.jpg" data-mid="171685579" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5303fb9f973be9e6475acf17f2936752fa25f521dc430154ea1d4948f05b8a9d/HWWK_HillvaleGallery_InstallDocumentation_AC_LowRes_10.jpg" /> Elements: Two car seat headrest TVs on fabricated aluminium stands at the artists eye heights. Video slideshows of screenshots from mapping software, moving around/discovering monuments to ‘Australian’ colonial ‘explorers’, interspersed with stills from car advertisementsVintage collectable mining stickers and postcards, assembled on eco green plastic Slide projector and carousel playing 80 slides of artists photography on rotation; travelogue accompanied with narration by the artists (length variable), sound design by Bonnie CummingsThis project was originally made possible through support from Yarra City Arts Annual Grants Program, and the City of Melbourne’s COVID-19 quick response grants. Many thanks to Tristen Harwood for the generous conversations, Bonnie Cummings for the sound design, and Marcello Rotar for the headrest stand fabrication. Thanks also to Nanette Orly at MAMA, Guy Louden at Goolugatup Heathcote, Andy Johnson, Jason Hamilton and Sarah Pannell at Hillvale Gallery and to those who provided input, feedback and install assistance along the way. First three images from Goolugatup Heathcote, images Dan McCabe, followed by the National Photography Prize 2024, Murray Art Museum Albury, images Jeremy Weihrauch. Subsequent Hillvale Gallery install images Aaron Claringbold and opening night images Sarah Pannell. https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/Leisuretime-I Sun, 22 Jan 2023 07:06:56 +0000 R J MCCAULEY https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/Leisuretime-I Leisuretime IPresented with Next Wave (Vic), March 2022. &nbsp; &nbsp; ‘It allowed us to experience the Yarra from an elevated plane that surpasses urban development and photographic practices: every single wave, shop and bike rider felt like it never had before. At the risk of sounding basic AF, it felt like magic.’ — Diego Ramirez Leisuretime I is a photographic intervention inside an operating tourist ferry on the Birrarung/Yarra River, made in collaboration with Aaron Claringbold, and guided by Catherine Ryan. Originally commissioned for the pandemic-cancelled Next Wave Festival 2020, the work was presented with Next Wave over a full capacity season of six shows from 27–29th March, 2022.Led by our guide, audiences joined us onboard; seated within a giant camera obscura, to reflect on the ways that photography has shaped contemporary understandings and uses of ‘natural’ spaces within the floodplains now known as Melbourne. Anchored in the specificity of place, Leisuretime I considers the personal, geographic, and historical processes that shape seeing, and learning not to see. In a one hour cruise downstream, sitting within a large, dark space, disembodied from the outside world, audiences experienced their surroundings reversed and upside-down, projected onto the vessel walls. Together they were invited to take in many of the sights this city has to offer; from floating riverside bars, outdoor BBQs, million-dollar properties, public toilets, yoga in the park, mega malls, and the oldest and largest surviving single dock in the world; asking, why did we get here, and how? REVIEW ︎︎︎ Diego Ramirez, Leisuretime I, on Performance Review <img width="1498" height="1000" width_o="1498" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/805345137736d4183d04edd59811c9c7d42abe323e451b736e5d68b1ae584119/DSC_9847_EDIT-lo.jpg" data-mid="165541237" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/805345137736d4183d04edd59811c9c7d42abe323e451b736e5d68b1ae584119/DSC_9847_EDIT-lo.jpg" /> <img width="1400" height="934" width_o="1400" height_o="934" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5f2a387d45afcbdece3bc00733f2a7f3c27701780fb910b5d6994e083a56723/Leisuretime-I_lores-60-lo.jpg" data-mid="165541248" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5f2a387d45afcbdece3bc00733f2a7f3c27701780fb910b5d6994e083a56723/Leisuretime-I_lores-60-lo.jpg" /> <img width="1400" height="934" width_o="1400" height_o="934" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/751b0bf264adcbc2cd30cf99ec3141e1f988cdd618a2baa4649924e4ad284ad3/Leisuretime-I_lores-39-lo.jpg" data-mid="165541239" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/751b0bf264adcbc2cd30cf99ec3141e1f988cdd618a2baa4649924e4ad284ad3/Leisuretime-I_lores-39-lo.jpg" /> <img width="1417" height="946" width_o="1417" height_o="946" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9333478c5e1af7d8f0d77ff031b77b25eae2444b26c0d432f733722fb5714a9/DSC_0153-lo.jpg" data-mid="165541238" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9333478c5e1af7d8f0d77ff031b77b25eae2444b26c0d432f733722fb5714a9/DSC_0153-lo.jpg" /> <img width="1400" height="934" width_o="1400" height_o="934" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9eef2273e1568a95ef4c3a912ef07839ab834171d39258d456d964a9e2127cbb/Leisuretime-I_lores-30-lo.jpg" data-mid="165541251" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9eef2273e1568a95ef4c3a912ef07839ab834171d39258d456d964a9e2127cbb/Leisuretime-I_lores-30-lo.jpg" /> Lead artists — Aaron Claringbold &amp; Rebecca McCauleyPerformer — Catherine RyanScripting and devising — Aaron Claringbold, Rebecca McCauley &amp; Catherine RyanMentors — Willoh S. Weiland, Steven Rhall &amp; Kate GoldingDocumentation — Keelan O’Hehir (outside) &amp; Aaron Claringbold (inside) Commissioned by Next Wave for Next Wave Festival 2020. ‘Leisuretime I’ was supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program 2020, Creative Victoria and Regional Arts Victoria through the Sustaining Creative Workers Initiative, the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and RMIT through its Photo Futures Lab.&nbsp;Thanks to Jamie Lewis and all at Next Wave, Con and Yarra River Cruises, Julieanne Axford and Gail Smith at the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Corporation, Melanie Mackenzie at Museums Victoria, Tristen Harwood, Grace Connors, Christine McFetridge, APHIDS, Marcello Rotar, Katie Ryan and Paul Murphy. https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/Wildflowers Sun, 22 Jan 2023 07:06:56 +0000 R J MCCAULEY https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/Wildflowers Wildflowers Shown at Chamber Presents (Vic), October 2019.&nbsp; <img width="2362" height="3538" width_o="2362" height_o="3538" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd62ef2fb18b80973721b86c8895f9af7cc006bb6424f077d8c1a537a9885b76/DSC_1167-lo.jpg" data-mid="165541654" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd62ef2fb18b80973721b86c8895f9af7cc006bb6424f077d8c1a537a9885b76/DSC_1167-lo.jpg" /> Part of a group show of photographic work by Mac Lawrence, Aaron Claringbold &amp; Rebecca McCauley, held at Chamber Presents, Brunswick.&nbsp; On 30 August 2018 one of the worst chemical fires in Melbourne in decades broke out in Tottenham, on the land of the Marin balluk people. The out of control blaze, caused by illegal chemical dumping, lasted for weeks and ran directly into Stony Creek, which the property borders. Chemical runoff included acetone, oxyacetylene, benzene and methylethylketone, some of which are key ingredients in the production of methamphetamine. Fourteen months later the EPA estimated up to 10 million litres of toxic waste were still present on the site. The images I included in this show were a combination of acetone transfers on aluminium, adhesive, and inkjet prints; shot on site alongside grabs from related newspaper articles and footage. <img width="3539" height="2362" width_o="3539" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/071b3fcd418c0a19739d69b3d14da282462e268262e78d4a3199bceaaa5cf393/DSC_1042-lo.jpg" data-mid="165541664" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/071b3fcd418c0a19739d69b3d14da282462e268262e78d4a3199bceaaa5cf393/DSC_1042-lo.jpg" /> <img width="3538" height="2362" width_o="3538" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d965acaf8185d422cc2144b64f3df6693b4706cc98f3ac02bbb92e862cff5149/DSC_1155-lo.jpg" data-mid="165541665" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d965acaf8185d422cc2144b64f3df6693b4706cc98f3ac02bbb92e862cff5149/DSC_1155-lo.jpg" /> <img width="2362" height="1577" width_o="2362" height_o="1577" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a30ff711f16be586f3752b354e576b5527cf7fadb076ccdf6fe52a87b09cf2fb/DSC_1190-lo.jpg" data-mid="165541675" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a30ff711f16be586f3752b354e576b5527cf7fadb076ccdf6fe52a87b09cf2fb/DSC_1190-lo.jpg" /> <img width="2362" height="3538" width_o="2362" height_o="3538" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4f719124c6c49a78b6efa1ff0490ec3f563aeb864eb5448f9b5f8fd71662c04/DSC_1222-lo.jpg" data-mid="165541666" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4f719124c6c49a78b6efa1ff0490ec3f563aeb864eb5448f9b5f8fd71662c04/DSC_1222-lo.jpg" />(After Wildflowers by Ali Cobby Eckermann). Image documentation by Aaron Claringbold https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/Hero-es Sun, 22 Jan 2023 07:06:57 +0000 R J MCCAULEY https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/Hero-es Hero(es) Exhibited/screened at&nbsp;ACE x recess presents, ACE (SA), curated by Olivia Koh, May – July 2020, Dead End Film Festival (Vic), November 2019, Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead (Vic), September 2019 – January 2020, Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change, Incinerator Gallery (Vic), October – December 2019.&nbsp; Recorded over the long weekend of 26 January, 2019, Hero(es) is a 7:09 minute single channel video with audio, made with footage taken though an unsecured cctv camera overlooking public space on the Murray River in Echuca Moama, made with Aaron Claringbold. The dual towns of Echuca Moama sit on the banks of the Murray and Campaspe River, across both Victoria and New South Wales. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the area as the Yorta Yorta people. We acknowledge the shared land and proximity of the Baraba Baraba and the Ngurai illam Wurrung, and that the waters of the river this work is made on have nurtured and sustained tens of thousands of generations of people. Sovereignty was never ceded. READ ︎︎︎ Poetic response by Neika Lehman, commissioned by recess presents&nbsp; <img width="4096" height="2304" width_o="4096" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/061e75d5c932e5bfb8c22b897899c688e2c5ae7c76737b2e2dfbbd01878b1e2e/Screen-Shot-2020-09-07-at-11.05.31-am.png" data-mid="165542299" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/061e75d5c932e5bfb8c22b897899c688e2c5ae7c76737b2e2dfbbd01878b1e2e/Screen-Shot-2020-09-07-at-11.05.31-am.png" /> <img width="4096" height="2304" width_o="4096" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc2f107be3f923867534d09743a5f6db305e3603413ed7567714970fd716d922/Screen-Shot-2019-10-01-at-1.32.55-pm.png" data-mid="165542300" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc2f107be3f923867534d09743a5f6db305e3603413ed7567714970fd716d922/Screen-Shot-2019-10-01-at-1.32.55-pm.png" /> <img width="4096" height="2304" width_o="4096" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d873c7b793175fe7baec93319536aad8c5a7137b8cc23aef7fb4d2c8b276d047/Screen-Shot-2020-09-07-at-11.07.32-am.png" data-mid="165542301" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d873c7b793175fe7baec93319536aad8c5a7137b8cc23aef7fb4d2c8b276d047/Screen-Shot-2020-09-07-at-11.07.32-am.png" /> Hero(es) was a finalist in the Darebin Art Prize, and the Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change, both 2019. It has also been screened at Dead End Film Festival, 2019, and at ACE with recess presents, curated by Olivia Koh, 2020. Underwater recordings of marine vessels supplied courtesy of the Centre for Marine Science and Technology, Curtin University. https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/Speaking-to-the-surface-of-a-lake Sun, 22 Jan 2023 09:30:37 +0000 R J MCCAULEY https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/Speaking-to-the-surface-of-a-lake Speaking to the surface of a lake Shown at Cool Change Contemporary (WA), November 2018, and Tinning St Presents (Vic), July 2018. <img width="1772" height="1183" width_o="1772" height_o="1183" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/669625bef8b4a92a578e3e55c9bf922bae334663ede84cde19ea81c8a8c80610/Rebecca-Install-Pics---4LO.jpg" data-mid="165542682" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/669625bef8b4a92a578e3e55c9bf922bae334663ede84cde19ea81c8a8c80610/Rebecca-Install-Pics---4LO.jpg" /> Speaking to the surface of a lake, a collaborative project with Aaron Claringbold, ruminates on the Australian landscape as a narrative of human impact on the environment, looking particularly at impact post-colonisation. Shot across Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia between 2015–18 the works record transient and seasonal formations of salt in ancient river systems and lakes, and various direct and indirect interventions of human activity. The images consider the nuanced and complicit ways western society in Australia continues to shape some of its most hostile environments. READ ︎︎︎ Accompanying essay by James Dear <img width="2362" height="1577" width_o="2362" height_o="1577" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f11e3d88e11edfba9dbe2b94c32b4cceadf9f42ad64a733d0accd9a60fad82b/DSC_0101-lo.jpg" data-mid="165542852" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f11e3d88e11edfba9dbe2b94c32b4cceadf9f42ad64a733d0accd9a60fad82b/DSC_0101-lo.jpg" /> <img width="1772" height="1182" width_o="1772" height_o="1182" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68d9f751a1c7d17126f8963fdc48eb27a659e99a52763a711b3f0bf34ba0a3be/DSC_9341LO.jpg" data-mid="165542914" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/68d9f751a1c7d17126f8963fdc48eb27a659e99a52763a711b3f0bf34ba0a3be/DSC_9341LO.jpg" /> <img width="1772" height="1183" width_o="1772" height_o="1183" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ff6233988c31c597f12d112df456e588679fa87aee28e5c916e4d5d8e6f5663/Rebecca-Install-Pics---27LO.jpg" data-mid="165542763" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ff6233988c31c597f12d112df456e588679fa87aee28e5c916e4d5d8e6f5663/Rebecca-Install-Pics---27LO.jpg" /> <img width="1772" height="1183" width_o="1772" height_o="1183" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b08ae5ba4804a904b20269c0d2f16c3151ad4efd768bae5087c5ebf71fa67f33/DSC_0221LO.jpg" data-mid="165543010" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b08ae5ba4804a904b20269c0d2f16c3151ad4efd768bae5087c5ebf71fa67f33/DSC_0221LO.jpg" /><img width="1772" height="2654" width_o="1772" height_o="2654" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6017d82906d41e1a75a478abbf9bfc0dc41e19b0735403b609986f915b58a0aa/DSC_9273LO.jpg" data-mid="165543024" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6017d82906d41e1a75a478abbf9bfc0dc41e19b0735403b609986f915b58a0aa/DSC_9273LO.jpg" /> <img width="1772" height="1183" width_o="1772" height_o="1183" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6bcfd708f38485c2c15593d2cb90345a7bd4b1742a445ddfcf28b551efef8d06/Rebecca-Install-Pics---43-LO.jpg" data-mid="165542843" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6bcfd708f38485c2c15593d2cb90345a7bd4b1742a445ddfcf28b551efef8d06/Rebecca-Install-Pics---43-LO.jpg" /> This exhibition was developed through Fremantle Art Centres Artist In Residence Program. Exhibition documentation by Aaron Claringbold. https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/Standing-here-with-everything-that-we-carry Sun, 22 Jan 2023 10:11:41 +0000 R J MCCAULEY https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/Standing-here-with-everything-that-we-carry Standing here with everything that we carry (or, Prop Joe’s Terraforming Platform)Published as part of Next Wave’s TIDAL Commission <img width="2620" height="1500" width_o="2620" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/213a24bb30312edcc989a3c98ac85685389c4e5b3f4f7bca91a096224f59a832/Screen-Shot-2023-01-22-at-6.10.05-pm.png" data-mid="165544548" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/213a24bb30312edcc989a3c98ac85685389c4e5b3f4f7bca91a096224f59a832/Screen-Shot-2023-01-22-at-6.10.05-pm.png" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; ‘We’ve been talking a lot about language; and co-opting language; its growth and roots, and our rights and responsibilities to words. About how things shift. Sand–dunes, river–mouths, head–lands, flood–plains, thought–words (word–thoughts?). About what it is to call a thing sacred in the age of wellness warriors, instagram influencers, and spirituality podcasts. A new democratisation of the divine maybe.’ A collaborative text written between Eliki Reade, Jack Mitchell, Aaron Claringbold and Rebecca McCauley, reflecting on thinking done through Next Wave’s TIDAL 2021–23 artist commission, a two year research commission proposing new collaboration and shared thinking around waterways. READ ︎︎︎ Full text available here https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/STRAY-VOLTAGE Thu, 02 Feb 2023 09:38:25 +0000 R J MCCAULEY https://rebeccajanemccauley.com/STRAY-VOLTAGE STRAY VOLTAGE KINGS Artist Run, June 2021 – February 2023.&nbsp; <img width="2181" height="1456" width_o="2181" height_o="1456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f86a5eafcece3b0baf9437c6ec19e2fa54fba636fb8fde5fc85b5beb6bbe4eb7/Stray-Voltage-2022-Acquittal-Support-Doc-5.jpg" data-mid="166999535" border="0" alt="DOMESTICUS VENUS, Victoria Pham" data-caption="DOMESTICUS VENUS, Victoria Pham" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f86a5eafcece3b0baf9437c6ec19e2fa54fba636fb8fde5fc85b5beb6bbe4eb7/Stray-Voltage-2022-Acquittal-Support-Doc-5.jpg" />Domesticus Venus, Victoria Pham, STRAY VOLTAGE commission, August 2022 From June 2021 – February 2023 Aaron Claringbold and I ran STRAY VOLTAGE, KINGS Artist Run’s video program. This included monthly screenings in the gallery concurrent to the exhibition program, as well as commissions of new work by Melody Paloma and Victoria Pham, and a series of public programs which partnered with like-minded, artist-led moving image platforms Dogmilk, recess and Prototype. Looking to the potential that exists between seemingly incompatible ideas, STRAY VOLTAGE premised an experimental program of critically engaged moving image works, with a focus on artists in the Global South. Local, national and international artists included: &nbsp; COMMISSIONS: - Kitsch Sites,&nbsp;Melody Paloma- Domesticus Venus, Victoria Pham&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;LISTEN ︎︎︎ Victoria Pham in conversation with&nbsp;Isabella Hone-Saunders SCREENING NIGHTS HOSTED WITH:- Dogmilk x Minikino, featuring works by Muhammad Heri Fadli, Riar Rizaldi, Olivia Griselda, Azalia Muchransyah, Ezra Cecio, &amp; I Putu Oka Sudarsana&nbsp;- recess x Electric Eel films, featuring works by&nbsp;Anocha Suwichakornpong &amp; Tulapop Saenjaroen- PROTOTYPE: Portrait of Place, featuring works by Leyla Stevens, Katie Mitchell &amp; Sari Braithwaite, Tiyan Baker, Sam Smith, &amp;&nbsp;Robert McDougall MONTH LONG SCREENINGS:- Hard As You Can, Tiyan Baker - The Gardens, Giles Fielke &amp; Paddy Hay - Fell, Yaseera Moosa, Mitchell Pollard, Julia Quirk &amp; Thandi Lane - Snake Mistake, Alex Hobba and Chunxiao Qu - Wa’anak Witu Watu, Natasha Tontey - water sleep II Akaike river under Xizang Road, Su Yu Hsin - The Crying Room, Marcus Ian McKenzie - Death is in Her Sunday Nights’ Dreams, Cristea Zhao - I’ve Been Lookin’ For You Lonestar… Jack Caddy &amp; Grace Connors - Carrying a stone in each eye, Anatol Pitt - A Long Distance Relationship, Talia Smith - Swimming Yesterday, Damian Kane, Louis Mitchell &amp; Brad Steadman <img width="2181" height="1456" width_o="2181" height_o="1456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f6aaadf7342764dc55c5eb1856d379097f6127203ece14564430654f6c0e930/Stray-Voltage-2022-Acquittal-Support-Doc-29.jpg" data-mid="167002634" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f6aaadf7342764dc55c5eb1856d379097f6127203ece14564430654f6c0e930/Stray-Voltage-2022-Acquittal-Support-Doc-29.jpg" /> Dogmilk x Minikino screening, November 2022 <img width="986" height="1476" width_o="986" height_o="1476" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b638979e1785e17ca6cee386b07776a969ae38ce43af1430fc7b193d56a5647/Stray-Voltage-2022-Acquittal-Support-Doc-40.jpg" data-mid="167003153" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/986/i/7b638979e1785e17ca6cee386b07776a969ae38ce43af1430fc7b193d56a5647/Stray-Voltage-2022-Acquittal-Support-Doc-40.jpg" /> Fell, Yaseera Moosa, Mitchell Pollard, Julia Quirk &amp; Thandi Lane, July 2022 &nbsp; <img width="4494" height="3000" width_o="4494" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/956180abb22ea6322516e8e47959fb06dd9b9a18a12699fabc4875916d793ff2/Kings_May_2022_Documentation_LowRes_1.jpg" data-mid="167003480" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/956180abb22ea6322516e8e47959fb06dd9b9a18a12699fabc4875916d793ff2/Kings_May_2022_Documentation_LowRes_1.jpg" /> Wa’anak Witu Watu, Natasha Tontey, May 2022 (showing alongside Dani Reynolds, foreground, &amp; Mark Mailler, background)&nbsp; Established in 2003, KINGS Artist Run provides a location for contemporary art practice, supporting distinctive experimental projects by artists at all stages of their careers. In 2022 STRAY VOLTAGE was funded through the City of Melbourne’s Annual Arts Grants Program. Documentation by Aaron Claringbold.