Rate My Professor Rebecca Dagnall

Dr. Rebecca Dagnall is a Lecturer in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University. She has served as a sessional lecturer in photography since March 2005 and as Coordinator of the Justice and Equity Through Art (JETA) program since September 2008. Her academic background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Art from Curtin University in 1999, a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Art from Curtin University in 2003, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Art from RMIT University completed between 2012 and 2018. Her doctoral thesis, titled 'Landscape photography and the imaginary of an Australian Gothic,' is a practice-based research project exploring photographic representations of suburban Australian landscapes and the Gothic imaginary.

Dagnall's research specializations center on photography, visual culture, and art education in incarceration contexts. She has presented her work through extensive exhibitions, including solo shows such as 'There is unrest in the forest, there is trouble in the trees' at Fotofreo (2012), Australian Centre for Photography (2011), Queensland Centre for Photography (2011), and Monash Gallery of Art (2011); 'Paradise' at MARS gallery (2010); and 'Paradise in Suburbia' at Turner Galleries (2009) and Guildford Lane Gallery (2010). Notable group exhibitions include 'Transience' at Gallerie Huit, Arles, France (2011); 'Out of Space' at fotofestiwal, Lodz, Poland (2011); 'Imagining the Everyday' at Pingyao Photographic Festival, China (2010); 'Postcards from Prison' (2024); and 'Motherlode' (2025). Her creative output 'In Tenebris' dates to 2014. Dagnall has been a finalist in awards including the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award (2009, 2011), William Bowness Photographic Award (2009, 2010), Joondalup Invitation Art Award (2010), Mid West Art Prize (2011), and John Stringer Prize (2019). She received grants from the Australia Council New Work Emerging (2010) and Department of Culture and the Arts (2009-2011), with her work featured in Photofile, Artlink, and The West Australian.