Rebecca Mayo joined the School of Art & Design in 2017. She is a visual artist whose practice draws upon her background and training in printmaking. Exhibitions include 'CLIMATE CARE: Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures', Vienna Biennale for Change, Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, Austria', Local Colour' at UNSW Galleries (curator Liz Williamson), 'Water + Wisdom: Australia India' at RMIT Gallery and 'Habitus' at Heide Museum of Modern Art. Her work is held in state and national collections, including the National Gallery of Australia and Artbank. In 2019 she was awarded First Prize in Castlmaine Art Museum's inaugural Experimental Print Prize with her work Escape route: Melbourne to Canberra, 2018.

Her PhD titled 'Labours of care: Art practice and urban ecological restoration' revealed how an art practice built around ethics and labours of care can offer a means of enacting ecological responsibility. Mayo used the processual, repetitive and labour-intensive methods of printmaking and textile practices, in conjunction with species- or site-specific dyes, to make visible existing practices of care in urban ecological sites.

Mayo is committed to studio-based learning. A key aim is to cultivate printmedia as an art practice informed by its history, its materiality and its position in the expanded field.

BVA (UniSA), BVA (Hons) (RMIT), PhD (ANU)

Practices and labours of care

Printmedia

Textile dyeing and printing with natural (plant) colour

Urban ecology and restoration