Rae Saheli
Rae Saheli is an artist living and working on Bundjalung Country. A longtime resident of Queensland’s Gold Coast. Rae completed an Advanced Diploma in Visual Arts at TAFE NSW in 2020, and is currently employed as a Technical Assistant in the Visual Arts department.
No longer interested in the application of paint to render the world in expressive or colourful ways, Rae’s work is unique in that her primary mark making tool is a 12-gauge shot gun. Drawing on over twenty years’ experience as a clay target shooter her process favours chance and chaos, over any sense of pictorial order.
Rae’s work has been featured on ABC ‘What’s Your Story’, SWELL Sculpture Festival, Industrial SWELL, Gallery Downtown annexe of Tweed Regional Art Gallery, Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Brunswick Street Gallery, Woolloongabba Art Gallery. Rae has undertaken Artist in Residence programs at Placemakers (2023) and The Walls Art Space (2020)
Come and see for yourself at SWELL Sculpture Festival, Pacific Parade, Currumbin 12th – 21st September.