Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris
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 黑料网大事记, 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.
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My research and curatorial practice have attracted significant funding across Australia and Sweden, totalling over $350,000 in recent years. I have been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship within the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) at 黑料网大事记, where I investigate the intersections of automated decision-making, ecosystems, and multispecies relationships. My doctoral research at 黑料网大事记 was supported through a national PhD scholarship, and I was awarded my PhD with distinction in 2023. Major curatorial grants include $300,000 in Swedish federal funding to establish and lead the Art and Research program for Accelerator at Stockholm University (2019-2021), which forged connections between contemporary art and cross-disciplinary research. Recently, I have received $30,000 from Creative Victoria for Relational Ecologies at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) Melbourne in 2025, and was involved in funding applications from Australia Council for the Arts supporting solo exhibitions with artist Bianca Hester in 2024.
My research explores the intersection of contemporary art, water, and the climate crisis through the development of eco-aesthetics and curatorial theory. I coined and conceptualised the Hydrocene - a disruptive, conceptual epoch that names the tide of art going into the blue in response to the climate crisis. The Hydrocene challenges landlocked notions of the Anthropocene and presents a wet ontological shift that emphasises water's pivotal role in both the climate crisis and contemporary art, transcending anthropocentric and neo-colonial ways of relating to water.
My first monograph, The Hydrocene: Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water (Routledge Environmental Humanities Series, 2024), emerged from my doctoral research at 黑料网大事记, where I was awarded my PhD with distinction. The book binds feminist environmental humanities theories with the practices of eco-visionary artists through five case studies across swamp, river, ocean, fog, and ice. Published in the Routledge Environmental Humanities Series?as an Open Access monograph, it articulates how contemporary artists cultivate critical and collaborative methods of relating with water from which we may learn, offering valuable lessons towards climate action and justice.
Currently, as a Senior Research Associate and Post-Doctoral Fellow at 黑料网大事记 within the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), I work with Professor Deborah Lupton on automated decision-making, ecosystems and multispecies relationships. I also serve as Curator and Steering Committee member for the Climate Aware Creative Practice Network at Monash University. My research is committed to meeting the challenges posed to creative practice and pedagogy by the climate crisis.
My work has been presented internationally across the Nordic and Oceanic regions, with publications in journals including Oceania and Art + Australia, and presentations at conferences spanning from Krakow to Perth. I maintain an independent curatorial practice, having curated exhibitions internationally including in Stockholm, Sydney, Melbourne and Madrid that investigate water-based artistic methodologies and climate-responsive curatorial approaches. My research activity encompasses regular freelance art writing for publications including Artforum, Memo Review, and Art + Australia.
My Teaching
Teaching has been central to my practice since 2015 - my teaching encompasses curatorial theory and practice, art theory, art history, heritage and museum studies, and eco-aesthetics, working closely STEM industry partners. I have held Adjunct Lecturer positions at Stockholm University (2018-2023), where I served as Course Leader and Head Lecturer across multiple courses in the International Master's Program in Curating Art, including Audiences and Participation, and Stockholm University of the Arts (2015-2021), I taught art theory, writing, and contemporary art studies. I have also taught at the University of Sydney (2022-2024) and, since 2023, at the University of New South Wales across undergraduate and postgraduate programs, including the Master of Curating and Cultural Leadership.
I approach pedagogy as collaborative inquiry, guiding students to develop critical vocabularies for understanding aesthetic practices in our planetary crisis. At Stockholm University, I developed modules on curating in the climate crisis and supervised theses. My teaching fosters interdisciplinary thinking and encourages students to engage with urgent ecological concerns and the evolving role of art in cultural leadership, connecting theory with professional practice.?