Madeleine Love is an artist based between France and Australia. Since completing a double degree of a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing and Bachelor of Arts in theatre and performance at the University of New South Wales Art and Design, Sydney, Madeleine has lived and worked between Australia and Europe. She works with themes of nature, culture and spirituality across disciplines of sculpture, painting and performance. In 2019 she took part in the exhibition at Fondation Cartier, Paris, ‘Nous Les Arbres’ (We The Trees) with her living sculpture / performance ‘We Are Nature, We Share The Weather’ exploring how humanity participates in Nature.
In 2022 she completed a two year study in plein-air landscape painting working with themes of spirituality in nature. With over a decade of expertise working with pigments sourced directly from the landscapes in which she works, the shifting surfaces of her paintings evoke colorful mysteries where looking and feeling overlap. Madeleine's work is held in public, private and corporate collections worldwide including Emin International (UK), Parliament House (Canberra), Curwoods Law firm (Sydney), Holdsworth House Medical Center (Sydney). Her work is held in private collections across Europe, China, America, and Australia.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Paysage Sacré II, Galerie InsideOut, Arles, France
2022 - Paysage Sacré / Sacred Landscape, Atelier Des Abeilles, Marseille, France
2018 - CHROMA SUTRA, Stirrup Gallery, Sydney, AU
2016 - Permanent Water, Curwoods emerging artist award, Australia Square, Sydney, AU
UPCOMING & SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 - White Noise, Monat Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2024 - Curated Eye, Open call, April 2024
2024 - Elements, group exhibition, Galerie InsideOut, Arles, France
2024 - Half of Venus, online gallery
2023 - PRESENT PARTICIPLE 03, Loveart, Sydney, Australia
2023 - Dessins du Graphite / Graphite Drawings Collection, Gallery Inside out, Arles
2023 - Paysage Sacré, Gallery Inside out, Arles
2022 - Oil & Water II, Open Studios, Aix-en-Provence, France
2022 - OUTSIDE IN / Embodied Landscape, Atelier Des Abeilles, Marseille, France
2019 - We Are Nature / We Share The Weather, Nude Meets Nature series, Fondation Cartier ‘Nous Les Arbres’ Exhibition, Paris, France
2019 - We Are Nature / We Share The Weather, Nude Meets Nature series, public installation, Extinction Rebellion France, Paris
2019 - The Lost Lost Lost Cabaret, Comédie Dalayrac, Paris
2018 - Non Objective Painting, selected group exhibition, Gallery 9, Marickville, Sydney, AU
2017 - Oil & Water, Monster Mouse Studios, Sydney, AU
2017 - Deep Sea Dreaming, Nude Meets Nature series, The Art Of Shells, Potts Point Galleries, Sydney, AU
2016 - Éco Burlesque Down Under, Perth Fringe World Festival, Perth, AU
2016 - Nude Meets Nature installation, Dr Sketchys Sydney, ArtHouse Hotel Galleries, Sydney, AU
2015 - Playground, Selected Group show, Gut Studios, Sydney, AU
2015 - The Other Art Fair, Sydney, AU
2015 - Young Artists Initiative, selected graduate show, M. Contemporary, Sydney, AU
2014 - Bodies In The Bush, Nude Meets Nature, Black Box, COFA, Sydney, AU
2014 - College of Fine Art (COFA) Annual - Kudos gallery, Sydney, AU
2013 - Contemporary Face, Satellite Installation, Sydney Contemporary, AU
2013 - Pleasure Dome, satellite performance, Architects of Air, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, AU
2013 - Ochre Lab, Fowlers Gap, Broken Hill, Greenhouse residency, AU
2013 - Nude meets Nature (performance & video installation), Fowlers Gap, Broken Hill, Greenhouse residency, AU
2013 - College of Fine Art (COFA) Annual - Kudos gallery, Sydney, AU
2013 - Acting Auditory - Kudos gallery, Sydney, AU
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2020 - IAU Institutional award for professional and academic excellence, France
2020 - Deans scholarship award IAU, France
2016 - Recipient of the annual Curwoods Emerging Artist Studio Residency, Australia Square, Sydney
2014 - Young Artists Initiative, graduate award, M. Contemporary, Sydney
2013 - Greenhouse Residency, Fowlers Gap, Broken hill
COLLECTIONS
Madeleine's work is held in public, private and corporate collections worldwide including Emin International (UK), Parliament House (Canberra), Curwoods Law firm (Sydney), Holdsworth House Medical Center (Sydney). Her work is held in private collections across Europe, China, America, and Australia.
TEACHING & LECTURES
2023 - ‘The Tomb Of The Diver: The Only Surviving Painting from Ancient Greece ’ Context Scholar, online seminar
2023 - ‘Fresco & The Origins of Landscape Painting : The Garden of Livia at Prima Porta’ , Context Scholar online seminar
2022 - Ancient Fresco I, II & III lecture series, onsite lectures, Naples, Rome, Pompeii & Paestum, Italy
2022 - Treasures of Pompeii: onsite lecture, Pompeii, Italy
2022 - Early to Late Renaissance, in person lecture, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
2022 - Assistant professor, Studio Arts
2022 - Assistant professor, Art history
2016 - 2023 Private painting tuition, Sydney, Paris, Marseille