Rae Boggs, a Gadigal/Sydney based artist, works in the expanded field of print,textiles and installation. Their practice is informed by ongoing concerns around childhood, gender, and language. Their artistic practice draws on the personal experience of identifying as gender non-binary person to investigate the myth of gender representation. Through this investigation they explore the construction of gender stereotypes in the material culture of childhood (Clothing, books and toys) through language.
They work within the modes of materiality that shift between printmaking, textiles, sculpture, and installation. Their practice includes printing on paper and textiles, soft sculptures, artist books, and collaboratively quilting with the aim of making language material. Boggs’ use of textiles includes printing on and with children’s clothing, making soft sculptural toys, embroidery and quilting from their own casts-offs and that of their family and friends.
Rae holds a Master of Fine Arts from National Art School, Sydney 2021, they were the recipient of the Printmaking Prize for their Bachelor of Fine Arts, and they have been a finalist in the Fifty Square Art Prize, the Small Works Art Prize, Ravenswood Art Prize and the Gippsland Print Award. Their Solo shows include Subtextual at Little Yellow Studio Collective, 2024 and Queering Space at Airspace Projects, 2023. Their recent group shows include To the Table with Potluck Ari for Utp’s Another World Festival at Bankstown Art Centre, 2025; Home at Articulate Project Space, 2025; Palimpsest at Goodspace, 2025; and Yellow at Tiliqua Tiliqua Studio, 2025.
Rae Boggs 