Raquel Ormella
Raquel Ormella works across a wide range of media, including posters, banners, videography and textiles. Key themes in her practice include: social and environmental activism; human and animal relationships; nationalism; and national identity. Her solo survey exhibition I hope you get this, curated by Rebecca Coates and Anna Briers, was launched at Shepparton Art Museum in 2018 and toured nationally until early 2020.
Raquel is a high-profile Australian artist and has been exhibiting regularly in international exhibitions since 1999 including many international biennials such as the Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2015; the California-Pacific Triennial, USA, 2013; Aichi Triennial, Japan, 2010; the Biennale of Sydney, 2008; the Biennale of Istanbul, Turkey, 2003; and the São Paulo Biennale, Brazil, 2002. She has received multiple grants and prizes from Australian funding bodies such as the Australia Council for the Arts and the Sunshine Coast Art Prize, 2017.
Currently her work is included in Know My Name, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra;
Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms, USC Art Gallery, Sunshine Coast, QLD, toured by Nets Victoria; and Just Not Australian, Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW, toured by Museums & Galleries of NSW. She is represented by Milani Gallery in Brisbane.
Dr Raquel Ormella is a senior lecturer at the School of Art & Design, ANU.