Ms. Rebecca Hayes
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College: School of Design
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Department: School of Design
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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rebecca.hayes@rmit.edu.au
About
Rebecca Hayes (she/her) is an artist, designer, animator & educator with over 10 years' experience in higher education. She is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Design, Bachelor of Design (Animation and Interactive Media) Program, and currently completing a Masters by Research within the School of Media and Communication.
Her creative practice spans animation, illustration, visual arts, design and AV/digital media for live performance. She has directed, designed and created multi-faceted animated content for broadcast, online publications, museums, exhibitions, site-specific installations, and mainstage theatre productions. Her animated works utilise a range of techniques encompassing drawing, collage, photography, stop motion, and cut-outs. Her award-winning short film work has screened extensively across Australia and overseas.
Examples of Rebecca's work can be found at www.rebeccakhayes.com
Rebecca previously co-founded and worked as one-third of the sibling artist group The Sisters Hayes (active 2010 - 2019), award-winning theatre designers and cross-disciplinary artists. Collectively they have designed set, costume and AV for independent and mainstream theatre productions, and have curated and exhibited visual art and moving image work in a wide variety of commercial and artist-run galleries and public spaces throughout Melbourne. Their collaborative practice has been featured in Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century published by Routledge Press.
You can see more about their collaborative design & visual art practice at www.thesistershayes.com.
Research fields
- 3605 Screen and digital media
- 4607 Graphics, augmented reality and games
Academic positions
- Associate Lecturer
- RMIT University
- School of Design
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2023 – Present
- Lecturer, Industry Fellow (2D Animation Design)
- RMIT University
- School of Design
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Feb 2022 – 31 Dec 2022
- Sessional Academic (Animation)
- RMIT University
- School of Design
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jul 2012 – 31 Dec 2019
Teaching interests
Rebecca coordinates and teaches undergraduate courses in the Animation Program within the School of Design. Key interests include fostering belonging through fun and inclusive learning environments, supporting student growth and success through dedicated creative practice, and developing industry-aligned studio projects with social impact.
She primarily teaches across the areas of Narrative and Concept Development, Visual Design and Storytelling, Sequential Imaging, Design for Movement, 2D Animation, and Motion Graphics, as well as mentoring student-led capstone animation productions.
Course coordination:
Sound Design for Animation GRAP2722
AIM Design for Movement VART3574
AIM Design Effects VART3573 (2020 - 2024)
Current teaching:
AIM Design for Movement VART3574
Major Project VART3575
AIM Studio 5 GRAP2597
Previous teaching:
AIM Design VART3572
AIM Studio 1 GRAP2597
AIM Studio 2 GRAP2597
AIM Studio 4 GRAP2597
Guest teaching (international):
Between 2014 - 2016 Rebecca designed and delivered offshore intensive classes in 2D Animation and Design foundations at Yunnan Normal University (Bachelor of Animation), Kunming, China on behalf of the RMIT Animation Program.
Research interests
Rebecca is currently completing a Masters by Research. Her project is titled 'Inside Aphantasic Practice: exploring the impact of aphantasia on creative practice in image-making & animation', and supervised by Prof. Mark Gibson, Dr. Rachel Wilson and Dr. Fleur Summers.
Her research explores imagination differences and how these can impact creative inquiry and practice.
