Associate Professor Keely Macarow
Associate Professor
Details
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College: School of Art
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Department: School of Art
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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keely.macarow@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0001-7684-9201
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Keely Macarow is Coordinator of Postgraduate Research in the School of Art at RMIT.
Keely's research is focused on socially engaged art and the nexus between creative arts, social justice, health and wellbeing, and social and natural science. Currently, Keely is a member of The Untitled (a collective of artists, urban and graphic designers, architects and housing researchers based in Melbourne and Stockholm) who produce creative works, publications and interventions in Australia and Sweden to advocate for Homefullness (rather than homelessness).
Her film, video and exhibition projects have been presented in Australia, the UK, the US, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Sweden, Hungary, France, Scotland and Denmark.
Awards and residencies:
- Keely Macarow, Philip Samartzis and Tracey Weiland were awarded The Arts and Health Australia Award for Excellence 2010 in Arts and Health in Primary and Acute Care for Designing Sound for Health and Wellbeing (2010).
- Keely Macarow, Philip Samartzis, Elizabeth Grierson, Tracey Weiland, George Jelinek and Andrew Dent were awarded an RMIT University Research Award for Designing Sound for Health and Wellbeing (2007).
- Keely Macarow was visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in February 2003.
Keely's research is focused on socially engaged art and the nexus between creative arts, social justice, health and wellbeing, and social and natural science. Currently, Keely is a member of The Untitled (a collective of artists, urban and graphic designers, architects and housing researchers based in Melbourne and Stockholm) who produce creative works, publications and interventions in Australia and Sweden to advocate for Homefullness (rather than homelessness).
Her film, video and exhibition projects have been presented in Australia, the UK, the US, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Sweden, Hungary, France, Scotland and Denmark.
Awards and residencies:
- Keely Macarow, Philip Samartzis and Tracey Weiland were awarded The Arts and Health Australia Award for Excellence 2010 in Arts and Health in Primary and Acute Care for Designing Sound for Health and Wellbeing (2010).
- Keely Macarow, Philip Samartzis, Elizabeth Grierson, Tracey Weiland, George Jelinek and Andrew Dent were awarded an RMIT University Research Award for Designing Sound for Health and Wellbeing (2007).
- Keely Macarow was visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in February 2003.
Supervisor projects
- Sex and pleasure in care, recovery and wellbeing for women in health and social care settings
- 22 Apr 2024
- the motherhood that wasn't
- 14 Mar 2024
- Making Tools: Exploring Process in Jewellery and Objects
- 27 Jul 2023
- Perfection in Imperfection: "Incomplete Beauty" in Contemporary Jewellery
- 26 Jul 2023
- Visualisations and materialisations of the tree in Indigenous art
- 3 Jan 2023
- Crafting connections: How emergent material practices in jewellery build community.
- 9 Sep 2022
- Plant Autonomy: entangled presence, perception, and intelligent behaviour
- 15 Aug 2022
- The Peace Centre: exploring plant-artist relationship as a site of resistance
- 20 Jul 2022
- Upside-down and monstrously misunderstood: an exploration of autism with Bats & Sharks
- 4 Jul 2022
- Funny weird or funny haha? Subversive tactics for approaching anxiety in contemporary art
- 28 Jun 2022
- The Public Sphere: This Is How We Roll Now
- 28 Jun 2022
- Just Keep Going: Encouraging public dialogue through gentle interventions in public and personal spaces to improve the lives both of the public and environmental evacuees and refugees
- 19 Apr 2021
- A new curatorial; method, care and the feminine
- 23 Nov 2020
- The Bioscope: Codesign Enabled Conversations About Death With Palliative Care Practitioners
- 6 Feb 2020
- Narratives of Emergence: Revealing an Image of Female Iranian Rebellion
- 30 Aug 2018
- Extreme weather conditions in regional Victoria; a reflection and response through painting and sound.
- 1 Nov 2017
- Unveiling the Umterweltoir: Framing natural environments to expose the looping nature of our listening to and feeling in them.
- 1 Mar 2017
- Deciphering aspects of Japanese Zen aesthetics in relation to photography
- 13 Jan 2015
- A Dense Mass of Indecipherable Fear: The Experiential (Non)Narration of Trauma and Madness through Acousmatic Sound
- 1 Mar 2010
Teaching interests
Supervisor interests
Art, socially engaged art, collaborative and interdisciplinary dialogues and practices, media and sound art, photography, writing, fiction, social justice, housing and homelessness, health and wellbeing, social and natural science, the body, disease, migration, cinema
Art, socially engaged art, collaborative and interdisciplinary dialogues and practices, media and sound art, photography, writing, fiction, social justice, housing and homelessness, health and wellbeing, social and natural science, the body, disease, migration, cinema
Research interests
Dr Keely Macarow's research interests are focused on the body, disease, health, HIV and AIDS, forced migration, conflict and emergency. Keely is currently developing publications and projects related to these themes.
