Jody Haines is a photo-media artist based in Melbourne, Victoria.
By approaching photography as a social practice, Jody collaboratively focuses on identity, representation and the female gaze.
Applying her social practice approach, Jody has been commissioned to collaborate with local communities, producing work across many festivals and programs within Australia. Including Women Dreaming Project (Women of the World 2018), Our people Our place (Horizons Festival 2019), and #IAMWOMAN an ongoing relational photographic series (including Arts House 2019, Immerse Public Art Festival 2018 and One Night in Footscray 2018).
Jody’s work has exhibited in Sydney Festival 2018 and Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2017 as part of Tell: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2017, Dance Massive 2019 and Channels Festival 2019. In 2020, Jody was awarded a major Public Art commission through Collide Public Art.
Currently a PhD candidate at RMIT School of Art, and a graduate of Master of Arts, Art in Public Space at RMIT, Jody lives and works on the lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung peoples and is a descendant of the Tommeginner peoples of Tasmania.
Jody develops work in a studio managed by the City of Melbourne’s Creative Spaces program.
By approaching photography as a social practice, Jody collaboratively focuses on identity, representation and the female gaze.
Applying her social practice approach, Jody has been commissioned to collaborate with local communities, producing work across many festivals and programs within Australia. Including Women Dreaming Project (Women of the World 2018), Our people Our place (Horizons Festival 2019), and #IAMWOMAN an ongoing relational photographic series (including Arts House 2019, Immerse Public Art Festival 2018 and One Night in Footscray 2018).
Jody’s work has exhibited in Sydney Festival 2018 and Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2017 as part of Tell: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2017, Dance Massive 2019 and Channels Festival 2019. In 2020, Jody was awarded a major Public Art commission through Collide Public Art.
Currently a PhD candidate at RMIT School of Art, and a graduate of Master of Arts, Art in Public Space at RMIT, Jody lives and works on the lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung peoples and is a descendant of the Tommeginner peoples of Tasmania.
Jody develops work in a studio managed by the City of Melbourne’s Creative Spaces program.
