JEN RAE CURRICULUM VITAE
FULL DETAILS OF EDUCATION + POST-GRADUATE TRAINING
2015 PhD, RMIT University, Art &The Anthropocene: Processes of responsiveness and communication in an era of environmental uncertainty
2009 Master of Arts (Art in Public Space), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
2001 Diploma of Fine Arts, Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada
1997-99 Bachelor of Arts (2 years, foundation studies), Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada
AWARDS + GRANTS + FUNDED PROJECTS
2021
Incinerator Gallery Art Award for Social Change with Claire G. Coleman for “REFUGIUM”
Keeping Victoria Beautiful, Sustainable Cities Award for Social Well-being Finalist for Fawkner Commons
2020
VicHealth, Reimagining Health Grant for Food with Dignity in collaboration with the Open Food Network and Fawkner Food Bowls (Fawkner Commons)
Australia Council for the Arts for Portage (Part II).
City of Melbourne 2020 Quick Response Grant for Ready, Steady, Go.
Moreland City Council, seed funding for Fawkner Commons.
Moreland City Council, community grant for Fawkner Commons.
Moreland City Council, Moreland North Food Hub Feasibility Study (awarded the tender in partnership with the Open Food Network)
2019
Australia Council for the Arts for Portage.
Moreland Council, Social Cohesion Partnership Grant. Fawkner Grows/Fawkner Eats. Fawkner Food Bowls, Fair Share Fare (J.Rae), Merri Health. Arts House, Creative Development for Portage.
2018
Moreland City Council Community Grant. 3060 Seeds.
Moreland Energy Foundation Grant. The Community Graft – Stage IV.
Deakin University Faculty Research Grant.
Arts House. Creative Development for AQ: Apitherapy Quarantine
Arts Centre Melbourne, Creative Development for Retelling the Yarra. C. Briggs, E. Johnson, J. Rae.
2017
Arts House Artist in Residence. Creative Development for Future Proof.
2016
University of Melbourne, Hallmark Disability Research Initiative. The Comedy Lab. CI: M.Luckhurst, M. Delbridge, J. Rae, C. Sinclair.
Australia Council for the Arts. Sustenance: Rations, Relations and Song.
Arts House Artist in Residence. Creative Development for REFUGE.
2015
University of Melbourne Engagement Grant. “The Social Impact of Comedy”. CI: M. Luckhurst, J. Rae. $10,000.
University of Melbourne, Carlton Connect Initiative Fund. “Sustenance”. CI: L. MacDowall, M. Badham, J. Rae. $25,000.
State Government of Victoria via the Goulburn-Broken Catchment Management Authority. “The DIY Riparian Model Kit”. Project Grant with Yea Wetlands Committee of Management.
2013
Canada Council for the Arts – Visual Arts Project Grant
Government of Canada Endowment Fund – Indspire Fine Arts Bursary Award
Canadian Heritage – Indspire Fine Arts Bursary Award
2012
Indspire Fine Arts Bursary Award
2011
Australian Postgraduate Award
RMIT University, Social Entrepreneurship SEED grant. “What Men Talk About”. $15,000.
2010
National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation – Indian Northern Affairs Canada Award
RMIT University, Social Entrepreneurship SEED Grant. “The Riparian Project”. $25,000.
PUBLISHED WORKS + CREATIVE PRACTICE RESEARCH OUTPUTS
Creative Works (2016 – 2022)
Rae, J. (2015-2022). Everything Exists in Darkness Quadrilogy. [drawing installation for Centre for Reworlding presents: RESURGENCE exhibition] Aberfeldie: Incinerator Art Gallery.
Coleman, C.G., Rae, J. (2022). Centre for Reworlding presents: RESURGENCE. [co-curated exhibition] Aberfeldie: Incinerator Art Gallery.
Rae, J., et al. (2021). Portage: Shelter2Camp. [socially-engaged multiplatform project] Melbourne: Arts House.
Rae, J., et al. (2021). First Assembly of the Centre for Reworlding. [participatory performance] Melbourne: Arts House.
Rae, J., Coleman, C.G. (2021). REFUGIUM. [video] Melbourne: Arts House.
Byrnes, E., Rae, J. (2020). Ready, Steady, Go. [online creative work]
Rae, J. (2020). 2130: Sleepwalking into Extinction. [performance lecture] Sydney: Other Sights and Sydney Festival for The Future is Floating residency.
Johnson, E., Rae, J. (2019). Then a Cunning Voice and A Night Spent Gazing at Stars. [collaborative multi-platform creative work] Chicago: The Dance Centre of Columbia College Chicago.
Rae, J. (2019/20). Portage: Raft-Flotilla-Shelter-Camp. [multi-platform practice-led research project] Melbourne: Arts House.
Rae, J. (2019). Recipe for Disaster. [multi-platform creative work and performance] Melbourne: Science Gallery Melbourne.
Rae, J. et. al. (2019). REFUGE: Displacement. [collaborative practice-led research project] Melbourne: Arts House.
Rae, J. (2019). Field Dressing: Survival Skill #19. [creative work] Melbourne: Climarte poster project.
Baerg, J., Oliver, J., Rae, J. (2019). United Indigenations. [multi-platform practice-led research project] Brunswick: Siteworks.
Rae, J. (2019/20). The Community Graft. [multi-platform practice-led research project] Fawkner: Fawkner Food Bowls.
Rae, J., Taumoepeau, L. (2018). Odyssey ‘O Fehuluni – Eko Drum. [collaborative creative work] Brisbane: QAGOMA.
Rae, J. (2018). Apitherapy Quarantine. [multi-platform creative work] Melbourne: Arts House.
Rae, J. et. al. (2018). REFUGE: Pandemic [collaborative multi-platform practice-led research project] Melbourne: Arts House.
Rae, J. (2017). Crunch. [creative work, performance] Melbourne: Melbourne Festival - Survival Skills for Desperate Times.
Rae, J. (2017/18) Telling the Bees: A Confessional (Part I). [multi-platform creative work] Melbourne: Arts House.
Rae, J. et. al. (2017). REFUGE: Heatwave. [collaborative multi-platform practice-led research project] Melbourne: Arts House.
Rae, J. (2017). Future Proof. [multi-platform creative work] Melbourne: Arts House.
Rae, J. (2017). Thee Meals to Anarchy or Revolution. [performance] Melbourne: Arts House.
Rae, J., Shelton, L. (2017). The Future Proof Survival Guide. [research-creation project] Melbourne: Arts House.
Johnson, E., Rae, J. (2017) Then a Cunning Voice and A Night Spent Gazing at Stars. [collaborative multi-platform creative work] New York: Catalyst Dance and PS122.
Rae. J. Taumoepeau, L. (2017). EkO Drum: Archipela-GO. [collaborative creative work] Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art.
Rae, J. (2017). Main Attraction. [curated interactive public art projection] Melbourne: Gertrude Street Projection Festival.
Johnson, E., Rae, J. (2017) Feast. [Part IV of Shore in Narrm, collaborative socially engaged project] Melbourne: Meat Market.
Rae, J. (2017) When All Else Fails. [large scale drawing installation for curated exhibition Flow] Brunswick: Counihan Gallery
Rae, J. (2016) Main Attraction. [video for curated exhibition Animaladies] Glebe: Interlude Gallery.
Rae, J., Weleski, D. (2016) Fair Share Fare. [collaborative multi-platform research project] Melbourne: Arts House.
Rae, J. et. al. (2016). REFUGE: Flood. [collaborative multi-platform practice-led research project] Melbourne: Arts House.
Baerg, J., Rae, J., Waples-Crowe, P. (2016). Blue Vision. [collaborative creative work] Brunswick: Counihan Gallery.
Refereed journal articles
Rae, J. (2019). Fair Share Fare: Recipe for disaster. Artlink: Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, 19 (4).
Rae, J. (2019). Creating into the Future: Speculative practice across borders, disciplines and knowledges. Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 19, 16-23.
Luckhurst, M., Rae, J. (2016). Diversity agendas in Australian stand-up comedy. M/C Journal, 19 (5).
Rae, J. (2016). "Walk On Fallow Lands #2". Performing Mobilities. Mick Douglas. 1st ed. Melbourne: RMIT University, 119. Available at: http://www.performingmobilities.net/wp-content/uploads/webFiles///Performing-Mobilities-MickDouglas_Lres.pdf
Murphy, S., Rae, J. (2013) United Nations climate change conferences: Copenhagen and beyond. The Australian Collaboration, accessed 14 February 2018. Available at: http://www.australiancollaboration.com.au/pdf/FactSheets/UNFCClimateChange_FactSheet.pdf.
Yenken, D., Henry, N., Rae, J. (2012). Biodiversity in Australia. The Australian Collaboration, accessed 14 February 2018. Available at: http://www.australiancollaboration.com.au/pdf/FactSheets/Biodiversity-FactSheet.pdf.
Henry, N., Murphy, S., Rae, J. (2012). Common misconceptions about climate change. The Australian Collaboration, accessed 14 February 2018. Available at: http://www.australiancollaboration.com.au/pdf/FactSheets/Misconceptions-climate-change-FactSheet.pdf.
Conference papers + workshops + reports + other
Rae, Jen; Larsen, Kirsten; Sheridan, Jennifer; Christiaans, Abby, Clarke, Ayra, Hartung, Helene; Fair Share Fare; Open Food Network (2020): Co-designing a food hub: workshop materials for collaborative community processes.
Rae, J. ‘Lessons from the Future Proof Survival Guide: Obligate Mutualism’, REFUGE online talk series: Living in a Pandemic, 4 June 2020.
Rae, J. ‘Lessons from the Future Proof Survival Guide: Domestic Rewilding’, REFUGE online talk series: Living in a Pandemic, 28 May 2020.
Rae, J. ‘Lessons from the Future Proof Survival Guide: Untethering’, REFUGE online talk series: Preparing for a Pandemic, 21 May 2020.
Rae, J. ‘Who needs artists in the climate crisis’. (public lecture), Raising the Bar, Knowledge Melbourne, 13 November 2019.
Rae, J. ‘The role of artists in the climate emergency’ (keynote and invited artist), Concordia University, Montréal, 12-13 September 2019.
Grenfell, M., Rae, J. ‘Refuge: creative lab for reimagining disaster preparedness, response and recovery workshop’, The 15th Biennial Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE), University of British Columbia, 17-20 June 2019.
Rae, J. ‘Playing in the Dark: Risk, uncertainty and collaboration on the frontline of imagined (yet, highly likely) disasters’ (refereed poster), Conference on Communication and the Environment, University of British Columbia, 17-20 June 2019.
Hannan, L., Rae, J. ‘Making Great Things Happen’, Diversity in Disaster Conference, Melbourne, 17-18 April 2018.
Rae, J. ‘Art as data generator: Preparing for disaster through disruption and surprise’, AAANZ Conference, RMIT University, 5-7 December 2018.
Rae, J., ‘Future Proofing: preparing for disaster through creative practice’ Creating Utopia: Imagining and Making Futures Art, Architecture and Sustainability Conference, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, 22-25 March 2018.
Rae, J., ‘The Art of Austerity Measures: Fair Share Fare’ in the Mobile Cultures of Disaster Conference, University of Adelaide, 22-24 March 2017.
Rae, J., ‘Popular, Potent and Political: The rise and descent of the polar bear as an icon of climate change’, Animaladies Conference, University of Sydney, 11-12 July 2016.
Rae, J., ‘D.I.Y.: A collaborative public art initiative to improve river health’, Cities in a Climate of Change Public Art, Environment and Social Ecology - Public Art in the Urbanization Process, Shandong University of Art & Design, 21-25 September 2015.
Rae, J., ‘Upping the Ante: The role of the artist in an era of environmental uncertainty’, Cities in a Climate of Change: Public Art and Environmental and Social Ecologies Conference, University of Auckland, NZ, 1-4 July 2015.
Rae, J., ‘Drawing as a mnemonic device exploring the complexities of species loss’, People and the Planet: Transforming the Future Conference, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2-4 July 2013.
Rae, J., ‘The Riparian Project: A culturally adaptive approach to improving river health’, ASLEC-ANZ Biennial Conference: Regarding the Earth: Ecological Vision in Word and Image, Melbourne, 31 August – 2 September 2012.
Rae, J., ‘TippingPoint Canada: Energizing the creative response to climate change’, Cross-pollination: Seeding New Ground for Environmental Thought and Activism across the Arts & Humanities conference, University of Alberta, 24-27 March 2011.
PROFESSIONAL
2016 - Director and Creative Lead of Fair Share Fare, Melbourne, Australia
2020-21 Co-founder and Director of Fawkner Commons, Fawkner, Victoria
Teaching + Professional Mentorships
Professional Mentorships (2022) Aubyn O’Grady via Odd Gallery, Yukon, Canada; (2020-21) Deakin University Design interns (Ayra Clarke, Abby Christiaans & Helene Hartung) with Fawkner Commons and the Open Food Network; Ainslie & Gorman Live Art mentorship (with artists Flo & Mils Dacy-Cole); and Alex Wisser and the Creative Recovery Network under Alex’s Australia Council National Regional Arts Fellowship.
Lecturer and Unit Chair in the Master of Creative Arts program, Art & Performance group, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Faculty of Art and Education, Deakin University. (2017-19)
MFA Research Methods Subject Coordinator and Lecturer, Faculty of VCA and MCM, University of Melbourne. (2016-17)
Subject Coordinator and Supervisor, Minor Thesis, Master of Art and Community Practice, Faculty of VCA and MCM, University of Melbourne. (2016-17)
Lecturer and Tutor, Centre for Cultural Partnerships, Faculty of VCA and MCM, University of Melbourne. (2015-2017)
Course Coordinator and Supervisor, Minor Thesis, Masters of Community Cultural Development and Master of Art and Community Practice, Faculty of VCA and MCM, University of Melbourne. (2016-2017)
Consultation
Nillumbik Shire Council, Belonging: Connecting land, wellbeing and ageing in place in Nillumbik, research study with the Open Food Network (2021/22)
Moreland Council Arts & Culture Unit, Art and the Climate Emergency workshop facilitation and panel moderator (June 2021)
Moreland Council Food Hub Feasibility study with Open Food Network (January - June 2020)
Creative Resilience Lab with Maree Grenfell (2019 - present) - See our work here with the City of Vancouver
Public speaking, keynotes + guest lecturing
From Risk to Resilience Summit (keynote - National Action Plan on Disaster Risk and Resilience); University of Melbourne, Monash University, University of Minnesota, Simon Fraser University, Concordia University (keynote), RMIT University, City of Moreland (different capacities), City of Yarra/Melbourne Fringe (panel), Jesuit Social Services/Eco-Justice Hub, MPavilion (panel), Arts Front (dialogue with Alex Kelly) and Climathon Belgrade.
Professional affiliations
Elected board member, International Environmental Communication Association (2019 – 2023)
Advisory board member, Creative Recovery Network, (2017 - present)
Committee member, Fawkner Food Bowls, (2018 - present)
Residencies
The Future is Floating, curated by Vanessa Kwan, OtherSights, Sydney Festival, 13-26 January 2020.