Rachel Maloney is a lecturer in Fine Art and technical instructor in Photography. Her practice led research utilises experimental analogue photography and filmmaking, often incorporating domestic materials from her family collections, to explore ways of re-imagining and re-telling personal histories.

Rachel was the V&A Museum / University of Brighton Research Fellow in 2021 with her project ‘The Matriarchive’ which aimed to investigate the often-marginalised memories and experiences of women in the home via Victorian era Photo Albums from the V&A collections. The project combined archival research undertaken onsite at the V&A museum with a series of participatory workshops that formed a collaborative diaglogue on familiy histories, women in the home and photography as a tool of remberance and storytelling.

Rachel's research methods are interdisciplinary and include collaborative storytelling and artmaking, participatory workshops, archival investigation, analogue filmmaking, experimental photography, philosophy, and daydreaming.

Rachel is an artist, researcher and member of the artist duo Thomas & Maloney. She is a lecturer on the BA (Hons) Fine Art course, a technical instructor in the Photo Video Unit and a current student on the Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice at the University of Brighton.

Rachel was awarded the Victoria and Albert Museum Research Institute / University of Brighton Research Exchange Fellowship in 2019 and worked in this role until the culmination of the Fellowship in 2021. Alongisde her academic role at the University of Brighton Rachel has provided talks and guest lecturers for HE institutions including the University of Falmouth, The RCA, Sussex University and the University of Louisville (US).

My teaching approach has been shaped and informed by my current pedagogic scholarship as a student on the Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice course. Through my own teaching and learning I have focused on ways of incorporating inclusive pedagogies and utilising experiential learning in creative subjects including Fine Art teaching. I am currently exploring ways of embedding inclusive pedagogies into curriculum design and understanding the different approaches that fine art and creative subjects may take to do this effectively.

I enjoy working collaboratively with students and staff as a form of peer learning that enables open dialogue and aim to work in a way that dismantles barriers of institutional hierarchies.