By Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris

Books

Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, The Hydrocene: Eco-Aesthetics in the Age of Water, Routledge, London, UK, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003397304

Book Chapters

Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, 'hydro(s)cenic glossary of sardina pilchardus, hydrofeminism, and puddles (suspended) in the hydrocommons', in Riga E (ed.), Office of Hydrocommons, The Office of Hydrocommons, Athens, Greece, pp. 14 - 19, https://officeofhydrocommons.com/

Bailey-Charteris B, 2022, 'Between us a forest: a series of contaminated letters', in PUBLIC MEMORY, PUBLIC ART Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today, Public Art Agency Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 136 - 141, https://artandtheory.org/products/public-memory-public-art-reflections-on-monuments-and-memorial-art-today

Bailey-Charteris B, 2022, 'Fritto Misto (or Cannibalism in Venice and how to Ingest Wet Geographies)', in Venice and the Anthropocene. An Ecocritical Guide, Wetlands Books, Venice, Italy, pp. 95 - 100, https://wetlandsbooks.com/it/catalogo/barene/venice-and-the-anthropocene

Bailey-Charteris B, 2021, 'Erotics of the Swamp', in Trophy: Signe Johanessen, Ystads konstmuseum, Ystads, Sweden, pp. 11 - 44

Journal articles

Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, 'The Hydrocene as disruptive, embodied, conceptual epoch', European Alternatives Journal, pp. 28 - 28, https://euroalter.com/journal/

Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, 'Att kelpa tillsammans (Kelping Together)', Ord & Bild, pp. 51 - 55, https://www.tidskriftenordobild.se/ordoblogg/category/ordampbild-3-4-2024-vatten

Bailey-Charteris B, 2023, 'Misty Bodies of Water and Artistic Relationality in the Hydrocene', Oceania, 93, pp. 335 - 343, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5382

Bailey-Charteris B, 2022, 'Waves as a hydro-choreographic material in the hydrocene', Maska, 37, pp. 78 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/maska_00131_1

Bailey-Charteris B, 2021, 'Revealing the Hydrocene: Reflections on Watery Research', Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, 2021, pp. 431 - 445, http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843860pk.21.031.14351

Conference Papers

Bailey-Charteris B, 2025, 'Weathering the Hydrocene', WAAPA, Edith Cowan University, Perth, presented at Underwater Weather: Creative Responses for Deepening Human-Environment Connection, WAAPA, Edith Cowan University, Perth, 17 September 2025, https://www.ecu.edu.au/schools/education/research-activity/centre-for-people-place-and-planet/overview

Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, 'hydro(s)cenic glossary of sardinops sagax (australian sardines), megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whales) and macrocystis pyrifera (giant kelp) adrift in the (hydro)commons', ANU, Canberra, presented at AAANZ (Art Association of Australia and New Zealand) 2024 Conference, ANU, Canberra, 04 December 2024 - 06 December 2024, https://aaanz.info/aaanz-home/conferences/2024-conference-australian-national-university/

Pluta I; Bailey-Charteris B; rake P, 2023, 'The Blue Turn in Contemporary Art', in AAANZ CONFERENCE 2023, Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University, Gold Coast, presented at AAANZ 2023 Conference, Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University, Gold Coast, 06 December 2023 - 08 December 2023

Bailey-Charteris B, 2023, 'Soaking in the Hydrocene as disruptive epoch', Krakow, Poland, presented at Deep Sea Babies: Navigating between Dystopias and Utopias for the Blue Planet, Krakow, Poland, 13 April 2023 - 15 April 2023, https://ocean-archive.org/collection/375

Bailey-Charteris B, 2022, 'The seismograph and the sniffer dog feel their feelings', University of Sydney, presented at Nature Feelz: Perspectives and reflections on ecological emotions, Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney, 05 December 2022 - 08 December 2022, https://www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-environment-institute/events/past-events/2022/december/nature-feelz--perspectives-and-reflections-on-ecological-emotion.html

Bailey-Charteris B; Smith L, 2022, 'Collective Brewing: Imbuing a wet methodology of educator-practice', Online, presented at ACUADS (Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools) Conference, 2022, Online, 28 October 2022, https://2022.acuadsconference.com.au/collective-brewing-imbuing-a-wet-methodology-of-educator-practice/

Bailey-Charteris B, 2022, 'More-than-humans as artistic collaborators in the Hydrocene', Stockholm, Sweden, presented at Streams Environmental Humanities Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 03 August 2022 - 06 August 2022, https://www.meetstreams.com/schedule/

Bailey-Charteris B, 2019, 'Precipitational Learning in the Hydrocene', in Precipitational Learning Practices: Watery thinking towards cultivating 'response-ability' between art and the climate crisis, ACUADS, University of Melbourne, RMIT Melbourne, presented at ACUADS Conference, 2019, University of Melbourne, RMIT Melbourne, 31 October 2019 - 01 November 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/30943

Conference Presentations

Bailey-Charteris B, 2023, 'The Hydrocene into the Blue', presented at AAANZ (Art Association of Australia and New Zealand) Conference 2023, Gold Coast, Griffith University, 06 December 2023 - 08 December 2023, https://aaanz.info/aaanz-home/conferences/2023-conference-griffith-university/

Curatorial Outputs

Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, Relational Ecologies, exhibited at: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) Melbourne/Narrm,, 06 December 2024 - 16 March 2025, https://acca.melbourne/cacp-relational-recologies-intensive/

Hester B; Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, Deeptime Coastline: walking series, exhibited at: Various sites across the Illawarra, 12 October 2024 - 20 October 2024, https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, Curator of Lithic Bodies, exhibited at: UNSW Galleries, Sydney and Clifton School of Art, Wollongong, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Bailey-Charteris B, 2022, A precipitational score to carry you between the art school and the gallery ​, exhibited at: Sydney, 22 March 2022 - 13 June 2022, Biennale of Sydney, https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Bronwyn_BaileyCharteris.pdf

Theses / Dissertations

Bailey-Charteris B, 2023, The Hydrocene: Curatorial theory of the confluence of art, water and the climate crisis in eco-aesthetics, UNSW, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/24922

Creative Written Works

Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, vessels for imminence or what to carry and when, Curatorial essay, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), https://content.acca.melbourne/uploads/2024/12/The-Charge-That-Binds-Essay.pdf

Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, Situations For Long Views: Diana Baker Smith And The Archive As Affinity, Art and Australia, https://artandaustralia.com/59_2/p273/situations-for-long-views-diana-baker-smith-and-the-archive-as-affinity

Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, all the heres and nows brought into relief traversing stratigraphic integrity and transversal planes, UNSW Galleries, https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Bailey-Charteris B, 2024, adrift in surrealist matrilineal tides: the new monuments of Christopher Bassi, Ames Yavuz Gallery, https://amesyavuz.com/exhibitions/new-monument/

Bailey-Charteris B, 2022, I’m raining in your lungs: A precipitational score for the Hydrocene, https://klima-magazine.com/en/issues/liquid-futures

Bailey-Charteris B, 2020, The Tracing Tentacles of Rosana Antolí, Centro Centro, https://www.centrocentro.org/en/exhibition/golden-age-pulse-throb-drift

Bailey-Charteris B, 2019, Beginning to erode some thoughts on hydrofeminism in Venice, C-Print, https://www.c-print.se/post/beginning-to-erode-some-thoughts-on-hydrofeminism-in-venice

Creative Works (non-textual)

Hester B, 2024, Lithic Bodies (Illawarra iteration), Lithic Bodies (Illawarra iteration), Clifton School of Arts, Clifton, 12 October 2024 - 27 October 2024, medium: Mixed media installation, at: https://www.biancahester.com/projects/lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, A scatter of particles in the geologic strata adjacent to the dead-zone, 252 million years, Lithic Bodies, UNSW galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Photographic print on laminated glass, galvanised steel, rubber, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, Carbon afterlives, Lithic Bodies, UNSW galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Bronze sculpture, seawater, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, Fragments of plant life from both sides of the extinction boundary, summoned by the ground, Lithic Bodies, UNSW galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Patinated bronze with surface impressions of plant life from geologic periods including the Permian, Triassic, and Holocene, galvanised steel, neodymium magnets, blast furnace rubble, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, Lithic Bodies, Lithic Bodies, UNSW Galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Video, sculpture, screenprint, photography, walking, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, Lithic Bodies: Extinction Lines, Lithic Bodies, UNSW Galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Video installation, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, Lithic Bodies: Strata series, Lithic Bodies, UNSW galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Screenprint installation (22 screen prints, galvanised steel shelving), 5 x screenprints on Awagami Shiramine paper, galvanised steel fittings, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, Ongoing archive of residues and material afterlives, Lithic Bodies, UNSW Galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Photography, installation, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, Registering survival at 252 million years in Gondwana, Lithic Bodies, UNSW Galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Screenprint, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Hester B, 2024, Replaced particle for particle through water’s unrelenting movement towards the lowest reaches of the ground, Lithic Bodies, UNSW Galleries, 27 September 2024 - 24 November 2024, medium: Polymerised gypsum, reclaimed granulated blast furnace aggregate, sand, scrim, galvanised mesh, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/bianca-hester-lithic-bodies

Media

Bailey-Charteris B, 2025, From CA Day with a Curator－Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris｜策展人的一天：柏綸・貝莉-夏翠絲, SuaveArt, Taiwan, https://suaveart.org/2025/08/24/from-coffee-to-curating-a-day-with-a-curatorbronwyn-bailey-charteris/

Bailey-Charteris B, 2023, Memo Review: Shelley Lasica, When I Am Not There, Memo Review, https://www.memoreview.net/reviews/shelley-lasica-when-i-am-not-there-by-bronwyn-bailey-charteris

Other

Hester B; Bailey-Charteris B; Poll M, 2024, Deeptime Coastline: Public Symposium, Clifton School of Arts, https://www.biancahester.com/projects/lithic-bodies

Bailey-Charteris B, 2023, A Parliament Of Eyes: The National 4 In Review, Melbourne, Australia, https://artandaustralia.com/58_1/review-the-national-4.html

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