Madeleine Child
Artist's Statement
There's those things/people you stumble across if you're lucky that make you think "oh, I didn't know I was allowed to do that", and gives permission for some Other.
Ceramics is heavy with rules - offers plenty to push against.
My mother encouraged us to do something a little bit illegal everyday. My father's motto was 'If a job's worth doing it's worth doing badly".
I move between looking at loads of things that humans have been making with this stuff beneath our feet and then leave all that and just think -what can I make today? You form a bubble to work within and against. Things that come with inherent funniness, comic clumsiness, organic fecundity... popcorn, mudplops - small explosions; or things that you instinctively want to veer away from ... ( pod forms, autumn poplars, fireside spaniels) - all material to start with.
Paying attention to clay in all it's states, timing, working against gravity, acknowledging that you never have complete control, the phenomena of accident and chance, the dynamics between intention and luck.
You're making a kakariki with it's yellow crown and the glaze runs so you have Bird with Poop on it's Head, instead.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education:
1992-1993 Advanced Studies 3D, Central St
Martins College of Art, London
1990-1992 MA Royal College of Art, Ceramics
& Glass
1991
The Lisbon Studio, (AR.CO) Portugal.
Tricia Guild Travel Scholarship, New York.
1987-1990 BA(Hons) Ceramics First Class,
Camberwell School of Art, London
1978
Ceramics Certificate, Otago Polytechnic, NZ
Employment:
2012-
Self- employed
2008-2011 P/T Senior Lecturer, Dunedin School of
Art
2004-2007 Head of Ceramics/ Lecturer, Dunedin
School of Art
1997-2003 Full-time Lecturer BFA, MFA Ceramics,
DSA
Selected Exhibitions:
2013
Wallace Art Awards Jury Award
2013
Changing Threads, Nelson
2013
Dunedin Art Awards.
2013
Man Ray Re-mades, Antarctic Riviera Project Space, Dunedin
2012
ILT Art Awards, Invercargill
2012
Object, Cecil Veda Gallery, Wellington
2012
Wallace Art Awards.
2012
New Souvenirs Gallery 33
2012
Sculpture on the Gulf, Madpanic Collective
2012
Mudplops, Raynor Bros, Wanganui
2012
Portage Ceramics Awards
2011
Wallace Art Award, Finalist, Auckland
2011
Wild Things, RAVE Rotorua.
2011
Slippage, Sculpture on the Peninsula
2011
Whitespace Ceramics Show. Auckland
2011
New Work RH Gallery, Nelson.
2011
Dunedin Art Awards, 2nd Prize
2011
Central Otago Art Award Finalist
2010
Stickier, Temple Gallery, Dunedin*
2010
Scent of Summer, Gallery 33, Wanaka
2010
Sticky, RH Gallery, Woollaston, Mahana, Nelson*
2010
Gold Coast Ceramic Award,
Australia
2010
Floriferous, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui*
2010
Putiputi, Hastings City Art Gallery*
2010
Double Vision, Pataka Museum, Wellington*
2010
'Sweet As' Dunedin Public Art Gallery, NZ
2009
More than Looking, Whangarei Art Museum
2009
Lower Life Forms, Mary Newton Gallery, Wellington*
2009
Portage Ceramic Awards, Auckland* Premier Award
2009
Vegetable Sheep Theory, Gallery 33 NZ*
2009
Southern Muster, COCA Christchurch.
2009
Sealink Small Sculpture Award, Merit Award,
Waiheke, Auckland.*
2008/9
'Sweet As', Whitespace Gallery, Auckland.
2008
Wallace Art Award Finalist *
2008
Portage Ceramic Award, NZ, Merit Award
2008
MINO International Ceramics, Japan
2008
Anthony Harper Contemporary Art Award, COCA,
Christchurch.
2008
Magic of Mud, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
2008
Best In Show, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2007
Wallace Art Awards, Finalist, Auckland
2006
Sidney Myer International Ceramics Award,
Shepparton, Australia*
2006
Wallace Art Awards, Auckland
2005
Norsewear Art Awards, NZ
Portage Ceramics Award, Auckland.
Gold Coast Ceramics Award, Australia
* collaborative work with Philip Jarvis
Grants:
2011
Creative New Zealand, New Work*
2011
CNZ/DOC Wild Creations*
2009
Creative New Zealand, New
Work*
2004
Creative New Zealand, Creative and Professional
Development Grant*
1996
Creative New Zealand, Creative and Professional
Development
Grant
Awards:
2011
Dunedin Art Award, 2nd prize.
2009
Portage Ceramic Award, Joint Premier Award*
2009
Merit Award, Sealink Small Sculpture Prize,
Waiheke, Auckland*
2004
Merit Award, Norsewear Art Award*
Merit Award, Waiheke Ceramic Awards, NZ*
2003
Gold Coast International Ceramics Acquisition Award*
2000
Premier Award, Sidney Myer International Ceramics*
Residencies:
2012
Lochmara Lodge Artist Residency, Marlborough.
2011
Wild Creations, DOC/CNZ Rotorua Lakes, NZ
2009
Sturt Craft Centre, Mittagong, NSW, Australia*
2004
AIR-Vallauris, Vallauris, France*
1997
Millay Colony for
the Arts, New York State, USA*
1996
EKWC,
s'Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Collections:
Te Papa Museum, Wellington, NZ*
A.I.R Vallauris, France
Museum het Princessehof, Leeuwarden,The Netherlands
Frans Hals Museum, The Netherlands
Shepparton Art Gallery, Australia
Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, NZ
Otago Museum, Dunedin , Auckland Museum ,NZ
Selected Publications:
2011 Art
News NZ, Summer
2000
Ten Thousand years of Pottery, Emmanuel Cooper,
British Museum Press
1998
One Hundred New Zealand Craft Artists, Helen Schamroth
Godwit
Ceramics: Art and Perception, Issues 47,52, 70.
Ceramics Technical, Issues 13, 14.
2000
Ceramics Monthly, November