Rachel Mackay is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is centred on body politics, addressing the body as a site of identity, resistance, and meaning-making. Her practice spans performance, drawing, sculpture, video and photography, often incorporating her own body as both material and conceptual medium. Navigating a space between representation and abstraction, she positions the skin as a mediator between internal and external experience, exploring themes of memory, transformation, and multiplicity. Engaging with art history, psychoanalysis and feminist theory, Mackay creates layered dialogues that blur distinctions between human and more-than-human forms, inviting viewers to consider the complexities of corporeal experience.

Mackay has exhibited her work in various galleries across Sydney and has been a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize in 2022 and 2024. She has recently completed her Master of Fine Arts at the National Art School of Australia.