Rachel Mackay (b.1988, London) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Sydney. Incorporating drawing, painting, performance, and video, Mackay's practice explores the fluid and dynamic relationships between humans, their bodies, and their environments. Drawing on her background as a former competitive gymnast, Rachel treats the canvas as a stage, where the camera is often her primary audience. Through a process-based and performative approach, she interrogates the role of movement and embodied experience as a relational process, in which bodies and environments interact and mutually shape one another.
Mackay earned a Masters of Fine Art from the National Art School in Sydney.