Maddy Anderson engages in an investigational and cross-disciplinary practice, developing a transformative dialogue utilising forms and objects that negotiate the pathways between the unconscious levels of the psyche and the exterior influential dynamics of playfulness. Anderson considers the role of externalisation in the explanatory process of unmediated thought and phraseology. Exploring the phenomenology of dream-thought, and the essence of play as a means of wish-fulfilment and enacting preconscious phantasy. Her current practice resembles the preliminary stages of research into children’s need for play as a technique for externalising their inner realities, and as a means of problem solving. These modes of investigation are to be merged by utilising paradigms that circumnavigate the unconscious mind and the uncanny.
Education
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2018-23 Master of Fine Art, Monash University Caulfield (First Class Honours, H1)
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2017 Certificate in Education Support, Monash University Peninsula
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2016 - Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours)
2014 - Bachelor of Fine Arts, Monash Prato Program Abroad, Italy
2013-15 Bachelor of Fine Arts, MADA, Monash University Caulfield
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2023-24 Master of Teaching, Monash University Clayton (ongoing)
Selected Solo | Duo Exhibitions
2023 The weight of incompleteness isn't necessarily failure, MADA Masters Graduate Exhibition,
Monash University, Caulfield Campus, February 2nd-11th 2023
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2020 FUTILE Devices, c3 Contemporary Artspace, Abbotsford Convent [with Jack Martinich]
2018 12:21, Gaffa, Sydney, NSW [with Darcy Stephanie Smith]
2017 'Colloquial Disquisition', Capsule, The Dirty Dozen, Campbell Arcade [solo]
2017 'Peak Hour Performance - Colloquial Disquisition', Capsule [with Terri Dawn Smith]
2016 ‘Ruptured Equilibrium’, SEVENTH Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic
2016 ‘Rudimentary Tensions’, BA(t)CH Gallery, Monash Caulfield
2015 'Words are Grey’, Under the Stairs, Monash Caulfield, Vic
2015 ‘Through the eye of a needle’, Brunswick Street Gallery [with Steve Marks]
2015 ‘B E L C O’, Fawn Gallery, Collingwood, Vic [with Jacqueline Rossetti]
2015 ‘Bel composto’, Runt Gallery, Monash Caulfield [with Jacqueline Rossetti]
2015 ‘Love Yourself’, HELL MELBOURNE ARTSPACE, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Window Still(s), Volume iii; Limbs, Locusts & Lavender, Quivering in Quarantine, Online
2019 Disrupting the Daily, Curation Project by Emilie Wilkie Jefferys, MADA NOW 19
2017 'The New Gymnosophy', Naked State Residency Exhibition, Ontario, Canada
2017 'Choir of the Impossible', PlayReactive, 402 Chapel Street, Melbourne
2017 'Receptacle', Junior Space, Fitzroy, [Amalia Lindo & Max Boland]
2017 'Tree-fi', Alternating Current Artspace, Windsor [Giulia di Sipio & Jacqui Rossetti]
2016 'Oneiricludere', MADA NOW 2016, Graduate Exhibition, Monash Caulfield
2016 'Windows XII, The Dirty Dozen, Campbell Arcade, Melbourne
2016 'The Collector’, The Capsule, The Dirty Dozen, Creative Spaces, Melbourne
2016 'The Hallway Cat’, Honours Fundraiser Show, Monash Caulfield
2016 'Halfway Honoured', BA(t)CH Gallery, Monash Caulfield
2015 ‘Introspective Paradigms’, MADA NOW 2015, Graduate Exhibition
2015 ‘Printmaking’, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic [Giulia di Sipio]
2015 ‘Runt Attack’, Monash Open Day, Co-Curated with Laetitia Olivier-Gargano
2015 ‘Play with Colour’, Link Wall, Monash Caulfield, Co-Curated
2015 ‘Colour Box Studio’s Membership Launch’, Melbourne, Vic
2015 ‘!@^//&*#?/*’, The Internet is a Cultural Object, Miriam Arbus, BSG, Vic
2015 ‘The Group Show’, curated by Kabir Singh, Runt Link Gallery, Monash Caulfield
2015 ‘Oceanic Boarders’, Mornington Rotary Art show, Mornington
2014 ‘Derivare’, curated by Stephen Garrett, Monash Centre, Palazzo Vaj, Prato, Italy
2016 'Water Rainbows’, C / O (CareOf) Liberty Building, Milan, Italy
2014 ‘Abbitor Dreams’, Men per Ex lati, Brunswick Street Gallery
2013 ‘Jungai’, curated by Peta Clancy, Runt Link Gallery, Monash Caulfield, Vic
2012 ‘She nor sea’, Mornington Peninsula Art Show, Rosebud
2011 ‘Ariel, my sister’, Mornington Peninsula Art Show, Rosebud
2010 'People make places', Matchbox Projects, Vitrine, Platform, Melbourne
Collections
Private Collection, Toronto, Canada
BSG Gallery Director, Fitzroy, Victoria
Private Collection, Rosebud, Victoria
Private Collection, St. Kilda, Victoria
Private Collection, Red Hilll, Victoria
Private Collection, Mount Eliza, Victoria
Private Collection, Osterby, Germany
Professional Practice
2019-C Art & Design Technical Officer at a Private School
2019 SEVENTH Gallery Exhibition Liaison and Curatorial Mentor
2019 Visual Art and Design Technical Officer at a Private School
2019 Art Blitz 2019 Panel Judge, Kingston Arts Centre, Moorabbin
2019 SEVENTH Gallery Fundraiser Installation & Technical Support
2018 SEVENTH Gallery restructure and subsidy of Gallery fees
2018 [Forthcoming] VOLUMN Projects, Mobile Gallery Space, Founder and Director
2018 [Forthcoming] 'EIGHTH' Volunteers Project Space, Facilitator, SEVENTH Gallery
2017 Gallery Manager, SEVENTH Gallery, Interim for June/July
2017 Interim Media Strategist, SEVENTH Gallery, June
2017 SEVENTH Gallery Board Member, Volunteer Coordinator (2 years)
2017 Connections @ Seventh, Exhibition Liaison, SEVENTH Gallery
2017 Naturalist Badge, Cub Scout Casting Workshops, with Laetitia Olivier-Gargano
2017 Fitzroy Art Spaces Tour (FAST) Education Initiative, ARI-Discussion Host
2016-17 The Art Factory Children’s Workshops
2016 Phantasmic Specimens & Entomology, Cub Scout Art Workshops
2016 MADA NOW Graduate Exhibition Install & Invigilation
2016 SEVENTH Gallery Install/Deinstall & Invigilation
2015-16 ACCA Reception FOH Volunteer
2015 Australian Centre of Contemporary Art (Mega Quiz)
2015 CAVES Gallery Volunteer & Bar Staff
2015 MADA NOW Graduate Exhibition Install & Invigilation
2015 Monash Open Day Glass-Blowing Demos
2015 Runt Link Student Run Gallery – Committee Chair
2015 Facilitation of Student Gallery Open Day events at Monash
2015 Fawn Gallery Install & Invigilation
2015 Art Red Hill Mentoring Program
2014 Runt Link Student Run Gallery – Committee Member
Awards/Residencies
2017 Naked State Naturalist Residency, Arts Unfold, Bare Oaks, Ontario, Canada
2017 Salmon Manor Residency Program, Malvern East, Vic
2016 Capsule, Working Studio Residency, Dirty Dozen, Creative Spaces
2014 Prato, Italy
2014 C/O [taking care of], Liberty Building, Milan, Italy
[Short Term Studio Residency with Prato Program]
2014 KCM House, Two-Week Residency, Self-Initiated, KCM, Toyko, Japan
2014 Monash Abroad Travel Grant
2013-15 Monash University Scholarship Bursary
2013-15 Board of Examiners Commendation for Academic Excellence
Publications
ANDERSON, MADDISON GRACE (2023): The weight of incompleteness isn't necessarily failure.
Monash University. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.26180/22631167.v1
Bibliography
Laura Couttie, Ruptured Equilibrium, Seventh Gallery Catalogue Essay, 2016
Lizzie Boon, Rudimentary Tensions, BA(t)CH Gallery, Exhibition Review, 2016
Press
2018 Art Guide Australia, March/April 2018, Issue 112, pg. 157
2017 Colloquial Disquisition, Capsule, Creative Spaces
2017 Naked State Artists 2017, Artists in Residence, Canada
2017 Naked State Press Release, 2017
2017 Receptacle (faux pas), MADAism: Life as an artwork; Ruby Joy Kammoora
2017 People - SEVENTH Gallery, Board Members Page
2017 Art Almanac: April Issue 2017, Melbourne, pg. 104
2017 Tree-Fi, Wreck Yo'self, Melbourne Arts Club
2017 ART NEWS PORTAL, http://www.artnewsportal.com/
2017 Junior Space, Artists Page, http://juniorspace.com.au/artists/
2017 Art Guide, April Issue 2017, http://artguide.com.au/exhibition/tree-fi
2017 Art Almanac: April Issue 2017, Artist Index, pg. 190
2016 Ruptured Equilibrium, SEVENTH Gallery, September, 2016
2016 Campaign Media Release, 28th September 2016
2016 MADA NOW 2016 Graduate Exhibition
2016 Ruptured Equilibrium, Wreck Yo'Self, Melbourne Arts Club
2016 Windows XII, The Dirty Dozen, Creative Spaces
2016 Documentor, Resisting Equilibrium, BA(T)CH Gallery
2016 MADA 2016, Graduate Exhibition (HONS), Flickr
2015 Caves Gallery "Thank You"
2015 MADA NOW 2015 Graduate Exhibition
2015 Milkbar Magazine, The Internet is a Cultural Object
2015 MADA 2015, Graduate Exhibition, Flickr
2014 Abattoir Dreams, Undercoat, Men per Ex lati: Experimental