RACHAEL TANNER
The Full Story
About

CV & Qualifications
Education
2020 – 2022 - Masters of Museum Studies, University of Queensland
2013 – 2015 - Bachelor of Fine Arts, Queensland College of Art​
2024 - 2025 - Diploma Remedial Massage, Evolve College
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2025 - Lomi Lomi Immersion (Kawika Foster) Hawaiian Principles
2024 - KaHuna Bodywork Therapy (Foundations 1)
2025- KaHuna Bodywork Therapy (Deepening)
2024 - Lomi Lomi Immersion Haku (Kawika Foster)
2024 - ZenThai Shiatsu Chinese Elements Theory (Advanced)
2024 - ZenThai Shiatsu Bodywork Therapy (Foundations 1)
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2024 - Yoga Union Yin Yoga Teacher Training
2022 - Alchemical Artistry Self Mastery Facilitator Training
2019 - Biomedical Institute of Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training
2016 - Somachi Institute of Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training ​
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Professional Experience
2025 - Soul Studio - Massage Therapist
2024 - Murray St Massage - Massage Therapist
2021 - 2024 - Alceme Yoga Studio - Yoga Teacher
2023 - 2024 - Freycinet Experience Luxury Wilderness Lodge
2021 - 2022 - Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery - Visitor Services
2021 - Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery - Digitisation Officer
2022 - Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania - Gallery Installations
2019 – 2020 - Griffith University Art Museum - Gallery Installations
2016 – 2018 - Museum of Old and New Art - Gallery Vigilance ​
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Solo Exhibitions
2023 - Salamanca Arts Centre, Salamanca Social, Embodied Cultures
2022 - Vacant Assembly, Embodied Encounter ​
Group Exhibitions
2024 Summer, Wild Island Tasmania
2023 Southerm Summer, Wild Island Tasmania
2023 Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Gather Together, Hobart
2015 Queensland College of Art Showcase, South Brisbane Studios



Values
​Vision
At the heart of all I do is one guiding thread:
to strengthen the connection between people, culture, and country.
I believe in the power of somatic, ceremonial, visionary, and creative arts to heal, to educate, and to bring us home.
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My work is a devotion to co-creation and reciprocity — between earth, body, and community. At the centre of everything I offer is a return to relationship: with place, with the breath, with ancestral memory, and with the deep intelligence of the natural world.
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Approach​
I am especially drawn to the intersections between spirituality, embodied cultural practices, and ecological wellbeing — where art becomes ritual, and healing becomes a communal act.
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My work explores:
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How creative and somatic practices support wholistic health
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How ecological reciprocity can be restored through ritual and rhythm
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How narrativity, mythology, and place-based knowledge shape collective identity
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How ceremony and movement return us to a felt relationship with Source​
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I am passionate about the transformative power of education, and believe that learning is a sacred act. It allows us — as individuals and as communities — to reimagine the future, to expand beyond inherited limitations, and to build more conscious, reciprocal relationships with the land and each other.
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At my core, I am an educator, creative artist, museologist, yogi, advocate for indigenous wisdoms, mystic, and health ambassador.