Marnie Badham

Professor Marnie Badham is known internationally for her expertise in socially engaged and public art, cultural policy and evaluation, and participatory research. Grounded in relational ethics and care, her art-research practice builds collaborations across Indigenous, migrant and settler positionalities in Australia, Canada, Indonesia and Nepal, bringing artists, communities and governments together through critical hospitality, food-art-politics and artist residencies.

She has undertaken 12 artist residencies since 2013 and convened the Forms for Encounter and Exchange field schools at Laughing Waters and Bundanon. She is Lead Chief Investigator of the ARC Discovery Project Strengthening Solidarities and Decolonising Collaboration ($463k, 2026–2028) with KUNCI, Bakudapan and photo.circle. She led the iMOVE study of public art at Sydney Metro stations for Transport for NSW ($200k, 2025–2026) and was a Chief Investigator on the ARC Linkage Project Ambitious and Fair with NAVA and AMaGA ($340k, 2021–2024). With Vicki Couzens she co-leads development of cultural frameworks for public art, including Listening to Country, Listening to Community (2020–2022). With Ye Liu she co-curated the Huaniao Island Public Art Festival (China–Australia, 2021). Marnie is a proud ally of the Yoonggama First Nations-led research cohort. She co-leads RMIT's Cultural Value Impact Network and has delivered 13 partnered evaluations with government and the arts industry.

Marnie is Professor at the School of Art, RMIT University (Australia), Adjunct Professor at Thompson Rivers University (Canada) and a Board Director of Res Artis, the worldwide network of artist residencies. Her co-edited books include Tastes of Justice (Routledge, 2025), Visual Arts Work (Springer Nature, 2025) and Making Culture Count (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

www.marniebadham.com