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Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris

Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris

Senior Research Associate
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
Centre for Social Research in Health

Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris is an Australian and Swedish curator, writer and researcher with expertise in eco-aesthetics and specialisation in water. Based on Dharug and Gundungurra Country, she is a Senior Research Associate, Post-Doctoral Fellow at UNSW, as part of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). Bronwyn maintains an independent curatorial practice and her first monograph was released with Routledge Environmental Humanities Series in 2024 and is titled The Hydrocene: Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water.
Phone
(02) 9385 1000
E-mail
b.bailey-charteris@unsw.edu.au
  • Books | 2024
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, The Hydrocene: Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water, Routledge, London, UK, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003397304
  • Book Chapters | 2024
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, 'hydro(s)cenic glossary of sardina pilchardus, hydrofeminism, and puddles (suspended) in the hydrocommons', in Riga E (ed.), Office of Hydrocommons, The Office of Hydrocommons, Athens, Greece, pp. 14 - 19, https://officeofhydrocommons.com/
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2022, 'Between us a forest: a series of contaminated letters', in PUBLIC MEMORY, PUBLIC ART Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today, Public Art Agency Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 136 - 141, https://artandtheory.org/products/public-memory-public-art-reflections-on-monuments-and-memorial-art-today
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2022, 'Fritto Misto (or Cannibalism in Venice and how to Ingest Wet Geographies)', in Venice and the Anthropocene. An Ecocritical Guide, Wetlands Books, Venice, Italy, pp. 95 - 100, https://wetlandsbooks.com/it/catalogo/barene/venice-and-the-anthropocene
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2021, 'Erotics of the Swamp', in Trophy: Signe Johanessen, Ystads konstmuseum, Ystads, Sweden, pp. 11 - 44
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, 'Att kelpa tillsammans (Kelping Together)', Ord & Bild, pp. 51 - 55, https://www.tidskriftenordobild.se/ordoblogg/category/ordampbild-3-4-2024-vatten
    Journal articles | 2024
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, 'The Hydrocene as disruptive, embodied, conceptual epoch', European Alternatives Journal, pp. 28 - 28, https://euroalter.com/journal/
    Journal articles | 2023
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2023, 'Misty Bodies of Water and Artistic Relationality in the Hydrocene', Oceania, 93, pp. 335 - 343, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5382
    Journal articles | 2022
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2022, 'Waves as a hydro-choreographic material in the hydrocene', Maska, 37, pp. 78 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/maska_00131_1
    Journal articles | 2021
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2021, 'Revealing the Hydrocene: Reflections on Watery Research', Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, 2021, pp. 431 - 445, http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843860pk.21.031.14351
  • Creative Written Works | 2024
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, Situations For Long Views: Diana Baker Smith And The Archive As Affinity, Art and Australia, https://artandaustralia.com/59_2/p273/situations-for-long-views-diana-baker-smith-and-the-archive-as-affinity
    Creative Written Works | 2024
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, adrift in surrealist matrilineal tides: the new monuments of Christopher Bassi, Ames Yavuz Gallery, https://amesyavuz.com/exhibitions/new-monument/
    Creative Written Works | 2024
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, all the heres and nows brought into relief traversing stratigraphic integrity and transversal planes, UNSW Galleries, https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies
    Creative Written Works | 2024
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, vessels for imminence or what to carry and when, Curatorial essay, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), https://content.acca.melbourne/uploads/2024/12/The-Charge-That-Binds-Essay.pdf
    Conference Presentations | 2024
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, 'hydro(s)cenic glossary of sardinops sagax (australian sardines), megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whales) and macrocystis pyrifera (giant kelp) adrift in the (hydro)commons', presented at AAANZ (Art Association of Australia and New Zealand) 2024 Conference, ANU, Canberra, 04 December 2024 - 06 December 2024, https://aaanz.info/aaanz-home/conferences/2024-conference-australian-national-university/
    Curatorial Outputs | 2024
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, Curator of Lithic Bodies, exhibited at: UNSW Galleries, Sydney and Clifton School of Art, Wollongong, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies
    Curatorial Outputs | 2024
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, Relational Ecologies, exhibited at: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) Melbourne/Narrm,, 06 December 2024 - 16 March 2025, https://acca.melbourne/cacp-relational-recologies-intensive/
    Other | 2024
    Hester B; Bailey-Charteris B; Poll M, 2024, Deeptime Coastline: Public Symposium, Clifton School of Arts, https://www.biancahester.com/projects/lithic-bodies
    Curatorial Outputs | 2024
    Hester B; Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, Deeptime Coastline: walking series, exhibited at: Various sites across the Illawarra, 12 October 2024 - 20 October 2024, https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2024
    Hester B, 2024, A scatter of particles in the geologic strata adjacent to the dead-zone, 252 million years, Lithic Bodies, UNSW galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Photographic print on laminated glass, galvanised steel, rubber, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2024
    Hester B, 2024, Carbon afterlives, Lithic Bodies, UNSW galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Bronze sculpture, seawater, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2024
    Hester B, 2024, Fragments of plant life from both sides of the extinction boundary, summoned by the ground, Lithic Bodies, UNSW galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Patinated bronze with surface impressions of plant life from geologic periods including the Permian, Triassic, and Holocene, galvanised steel, neodymium magnets, blast furnace rubble, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2024
    Hester B, 2024, Lithic Bodies (Illawarra iteration), Lithic Bodies (Illawarra iteration), Clifton School of Arts, Clifton, 12 October 2024 - 27 October 2024, medium: Mixed media installation, at: https://www.biancahester.com/projects/lithic-bodies
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2024
    Hester B, 2024, Lithic Bodies: Extinction Lines, Lithic Bodies, UNSW Galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Video installation, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2024
    Hester B, 2024, Lithic Bodies: Strata series, Lithic Bodies, UNSW galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Screenprint installation (22 screen prints, galvanised steel shelving), 5 x screenprints on Awagami Shiramine paper, galvanised steel fittings, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2024
    Hester B, 2024, Lithic Bodies, Lithic Bodies, UNSW Galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Video, sculpture, screenprint, photography, walking, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2024
    Hester B, 2024, Ongoing archive of residues and material afterlives, Lithic Bodies, UNSW Galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Photography, installation, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2024
    Hester B, 2024, Registering survival at 252 million years in Gondwana, Lithic Bodies, UNSW Galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Screenprint, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2024
    Hester B, 2024, Replaced particle for particle through water’s unrelenting movement towards the lowest reaches of the ground, Lithic Bodies, UNSW Galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Polymerised gypsum, reclaimed granulated blast furnace aggregate, sand, scrim, galvanised mesh, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies
    Conference Presentations | 2023
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2023, 'Soaking in the Hydrocene as disruptive epoch', presented at Deep Sea Babies: Navigating between Dystopias and Utopias for the Blue Planet, Krakow, Poland, 13 April 2023 - 15 April 2023, https://ocean-archive.org/collection/375
    Conference Presentations | 2023
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2023, 'The Blue Turn in Contemporary Art', presented at AAANZ (Art Association of Australia and New Zealand) Conference 2023, Gold Coast, Griffith University, 06 December 2023 - 08 December 2023, https://aaanz.info/aaanz-home/conferences/2023-conference-griffith-university/
    Other | 2023
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2023, A Parliament Of Eyes: The National 4 In Review, Melbourne, Australia, https://artandaustralia.com/58_1/review-the-national-4.html
    Other | 2023
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2023, Memo Review: Shelley Lasica, When I Am Not There, Memo Review, https://www.memoreview.net/reviews/shelley-lasica-when-i-am-not-there-by-bronwyn-bailey-charteris
    Theses / Dissertations | 2023
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2023, The Hydrocene: Curatorial theory of the confluence of art, water and the climate crisis in eco-aesthetics, UNSW, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/24922
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Bailey-Charteris B; Smith L, 2022, 'Collective Brewing: Imbuing a wet methodology of educator-practice', Online, presented at ACUADS (Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools) Conference, 2022, Online, 28 October 2022, https://2022.acuadsconference.com.au/collective-brewing-imbuing-a-wet-methodology-of-educator-practice/
    Creative Written Works | 2022
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2022, I’m raining in your lungs: A precipitational score for the Hydrocene, https://klima-magazine.com/en/issues/liquid-futures
    Conference Presentations | 2022
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2022, 'More-than-humans as artistic collaborators in the Hydrocene', presented at Streams Environmental Humanities Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 03 August 2022 - 06 August 2022, https://www.meetstreams.com/schedule/
    Conference Presentations | 2022
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2022, 'The seismograph and the sniffer dog feel their feelings', presented at Nature Feelz: Perspectives and reflections on ecological emotions, Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney, 05 December 2022 - 08 December 2022, https://www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-environment-institute/events/past-events/2022/december/nature-feelz--perspectives-and-reflections-on-ecological-emotion.html
    Curatorial Outputs | 2022
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2022, A precipitational score to carry you between the art school and the gallery ​, exhibited at: Sydney, 22 March 2022 - 13 June 2022, Biennale of Sydney, https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Bronwyn_BaileyCharteris.pdf
    Creative Written Works | 2020
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2020, The Tracing Tentacles of Rosana Antolí, Centro Centro, https://www.centrocentro.org/en/exhibition/golden-age-pulse-throb-drift
    Creative Written Works | 2019
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2019, Beginning to erode some thoughts on hydrofeminism in Venice, C-Print, https://www.c-print.se/post/beginning-to-erode-some-thoughts-on-hydrofeminism-in-venice
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Bailey-Charteris B, 2019, 'Precipitational Learning in the Hydrocene', in Precipitational Learning Practices: Watery thinking towards cultivating 'response-ability' between art and the climate crisis, ACUADS, University of Melbourne, RMIT Melbourne, presented at ACUADS Conference, 2019, University of Melbourne, RMIT Melbourne, 31 October 2019 - 01 November 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/30943