Rate My Professor Ali Baker

Baker leads significant projects including Reimagining the Humanities through Indigenous Creative Arts as Chief Investigator from 2022 to 2026, Sovereign Acts/Love Praxis from 2024 to 2025, and contributions to Unsettling Queenstown for the Australia Pavilion at the 18th Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2023. Her key publications encompass Being Inside the Old Tree in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (2025), Art-led learning and Sandra Saunders’ history paintings in Artlink (2025), Holding Black Space and the Long Shadows of Racist Texts in Meanjin (2023), and The weight of river stones in Water Lore: Practice, Place and Poetics (2022). She coordinates topics such as INDG3002 Decolonising Institutions: Indigenous Critical Creative Praxis, INDG2001 Black Poetics: Indigenous Literary Studies, INDG2002 Indigenous Australian Art, and INDG2004 Reconciliation and Indigenous Knowledges, and lectures in INDG9000 Indigenous Research Methodologies, INDG1001 Race and Representation: Indigenous Identities, and others. Baker holds positions on the Artlink Magazine Board, the Adelaide City Council Public Art Round Table, the SALA Advisory Committee, and the Creative Industries Steering Group of the Department for Correctional Services. In 2023, she co-received the International Women's Day Irene Bell Award with collaborators Simone Tur, Natalie Harkin, and Faye Blanch. She has contributed to performances including APRON-SORROW/SOVEREIGN-TEA in 2021 as part of the Unbound Collective.