Helen McCullagh
Madeleine Cruise
Madeleine Cruise is an emerging Australian artist who lives and works in Ballarat Victoria. Her art practice uses drawing, collage and painting to explore everyday rituals and their contribution to personal identity. Inspired by connections with place and the role of memory, Madeleine combines still life and landscape imagery to create expressive compositions that hover between abstraction and representation. Like unfolding stories, her paintings often feature ambiguous forms gathered in painterly dialogue, marking time and space and referencing traditions of collecting, domestic practice and acts of commemoration.
Madeleine Cruise is an emerging Australian artist who lives and works in Ballarat Victoria. Her art practice uses drawing, collage and painting to explore everyday rituals and their contribution to personal identity. Inspired by connections with place and the role of memory, Madeleine combines still life and landscape imagery to create expressive compositions that hover between abstraction and representation. Like unfolding stories, her paintings often feature ambiguous forms gathered in painterly dialogue, marking time and space and referencing traditions of collecting, domestic practice and acts of commemoration.
110 x 90 cm Acrylic on Canvas $1800
Madeleine Cruise
Born: 1987 Camden NSW Australia
Lives and works in Ballarat Australia
Education:
2009 Bachelor Fine Art Honours Painting
National Art School
Darlinghurst Australia
Solo Exhibitions:
2018 Theatre Of Objects Dungog Contemporary Dungog
2017 Ex Voto Gaffa Sydney
2015 Candy NANA contemporary art space Newcastle
2014 Smoke Steel Salt NANA Contemporary Art Space Newcastle
2013 Hiding Places The Lockup Newcastle
2011 Lost and Found Ctrllab Gallery Montreal
Exhibitions:
2018 Argo Pacifico The Lockup Newcastle
Semblance Comber Street Studios Paddington
Plein Air Landscape Painting Prize State Parliament House Sydney
EMSLA Finalist exhibition Wollongong Art Space Wollongong
Muswellbrook Art Prize Muswellbrook Art Centre Muswellbrook
Paradise Dungog Contemporary Dungog
2017 EGO REBEL The Bearded Tit Redfern
Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship Exhibition Brett Whiteley Studio Sydney
Cross Currents Sawtooth Studios Newcastle
Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award Lane Cove Gallery Lane Cove
2016 Plein Air Landscape Painting Prize State Parliament House Sydney
Home Modern Times Fitzroy
The Bammy Residency Exhibition Marrickville Garage Marrickville
2015 17.11.16 HOME Gallery Redfern
The Other Art Fair Sydney
2014 We Get By Cooks Hill Gallery Newcastle
The Christmas Show Art Systems Wickham
Monuments to the everyman NANA contemporary art space Newcastle
2013 Newcastle Emerging Art Prize Newcastle Art Space Newcastle
2012 Gastro Porn NG Gallery Chippendale
Natural History Art Prize South Australia Art Gallery Adelaide
2011 Something Personal Charles Hewitt Gallery Darlinghurst
Colour Kaleidoscope Gallery, Paddington
2010 Succinct Sheep Sabotage, Horus & Deloris, Pyrmont
Mosman Art Prize Mosman Art Gallery Mosman
Another Language Kaleidoscope Gallery Paddington
Paint the Town Red Fraser Studios Chippendale
Black Line Collection Kaleidoscope Gallery Paddington
Southern Highlands Foundation Fundraising Show BDAS Bowral
Fraser Studios Group Show Fraser Studios Chippendale
Awards:
2013 Winner Youth Art Prize Bowral District Art Prize
2010 Winner Fraser Studios Residency Award
2009 Winner Reg Rowe Art Scholarship Southern Highlands Foundation
Highly Commended Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award
2008 Highly Commended Glebe Art Prize
2007 Winner Berrima District Youth Award
2007 Winner Waverley Youth Art Award
Residencies:
2016 San Clemente Highschool Mayfield Aus
2015 Bammy residency Hawkesbury River Aus
2012 Bundanon Trust Shoalhaven River NSW Aus
2011 Montreal Art House Ctrllab Gallery Montreal Canada
2011 Banff Centre Summer Program Alberta Canada
2010 First Draft Depot Woolloomooloo NSW Aus
2010 Fraser Studios Chippendale Aus
Art Industry:
Current Art & Design Technician Ballarat Grammar School
2016 - 2018 Installation Officer Maitland Regional Art Gallery
Gallery Attendant & Installation Officer Newcastle Regional Gallery
2014 - 2016 Founding Director NANA Contemporary Art Space Newcastle
Collections:
San Clemente Secondary School Mayfield NSW Australia
Artbank Australia