Dr Raquel Ormella

Raquel Ormella has a diverse artistic practice that includes video, installation, textiles and creating zines. Her works investigates how art can encourage political consciousness and social action in relation to questions of national identity and the environment. Her PhD (conferred 2015) examined human interactions with urban birds. The accompanying dissteration examined recent Australian artworks that used living animals as performers and props. 

Raquel is a high profile national and international artist whoes work has been included in the 2015 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the 2013 California-Pacific Triennial, 2010 Aichi Triennial (Japan), 2008 Sydney Biennale, the 2003 Biennale of Istanbul and the 2002 Sao Paulo Biennale (Brazil), as well as many group exhibitions in Australia including Material Politics, Institute of Modern Art Brisbane (2017) and The National, New Australian Art, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney (2017). She has held solo exhibitions at Milani Gallery in Brisbane, Artspace in Sydney, and Lab 14 CarltonConnect University of Melbourne and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces in Melbourne. 

• Museum of Contemporry Art, Australia, Artists Advisory Board (2017 -2018)
• Board member Australian National Captial Artists inc. (ANCA) (2019 - 2020)

PhD (ANU) MFA (UWS) BVA (Hons) (UWS)

• Art, Politics and Activism
• Animal/Human Interactions
• Urban birds and Habitecture
• Expanded Painting and Contemporary Abstraction
• Contemporary Performance Art, about and with animals
• Artists interventions into Archives