DR BRONWYN BAILEY-CHARTERIS

Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris

Email
b.bailey-charteris@unsw.edu.au

Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris is a Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S).

Dr. Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris is an Australian and Swedish curator, writer and lecturer based on Darug and Gundungurra Country, Blue Mountains. Her expertise is on the poetics and politics of eco-aesthetics and curatorial theory with a focus on water, environmental art and hydrofeminism.

Her research proposing the Hydrocene as a disruptive epoch and curatorial theory is internationally recognised and is the focus of her monograph on art, climate and eco-aesthetics, titled The Hydrocene: Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water (Routledge, Environmental Humanities Series 2024).

Bronwyn was previously curator at Index Foundation, Stockholm and lead of Art+Research at Accelerator, Stockholm University, and has curated exhibitions internationally including in Sydney, Melbourne, Madrid and Stockholm. She now maintains an independent curatorial practice, most recently curating Lithic Bodies at UNSW Galleries, Sydney and Relational Ecologies at ACCA, Melbourne.

Before joining ADMS as a Post Doctoral Fellow, Bronwyn was an Early Career Research Fellow at UNSW Art and Design, as well as Curator for the nation-wide Climate Aware Creative Practices Network.