About

Rachel Morley is an artist and arts worker based in Narrm/Melbourne.

Through analogue photography and photo-collage, her practice explores relationships to place and the construction of memory. Drawing on her experiences growing up, her past photographic works reflect on how power and inequality is created both within housing and through urban planning in Melbourne’s outer western suburbs. She is currently exploring how familial relationships, behaviours and identities are shaped by suburban environments and infrastructure.

Rachel has presented works in public spaces; hanging from rooftops, pasted onto bridges, and beamed from an LED light screen installed above a house. She has held solo gallery exhibitions at Analogue Academy (2022) and The Annex (2023), and her work 'Housing should not be for profit' was shortlisted for the 2023 Wyndham Art Prize. Rachel is currently undertaking a residency as part of Next Wave's 2024-25 Kickstart program.

CV

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Sympoesis, Platform Arts, 17 Mar - 17 Apr 2025

Preconceived Interrogations - Memory, Trocadero Projects, 27 Feb - 29 Mar 2025

In the Deep West, West End Art Space, 10-31 Aug 2024

Laverton Market, The Annex, 20 Mar - 6 Apr 2024

Suburban Views, [AT HOME] Project, curated by Common Collective, 1 - 3 Dec 2023

Kingston Boulevard (solo), The Annex, 21 - 27 Aug 2023.

dream life (solo), Analogue Academy, 17 - 29 Sep, 2022.

PRIZES & RESIDENCIES

Next Wave Kickstart Residency, 2024-25

Wyndham Art Prize, shortlisted, 2023