Maddie Leach
About Maddie Leach
Maddie Leach is an artist and Senior Lecturer at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg. She is also a candidate for PhD By Prior Publications at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Maddie arrived in Göteborg in March 2016 from Wellington, New Zealand where she was Programme Leader for the MFA and a founding staff member of Whiti o Rehua/The School of Art at Massey University.
Maddie's practice follows a research-intensive approach to develop conceptual trajectories and work through questions of materiality, process and public presentation with the aim of adapting and responding to local conditions. This way of working can be identified in many of her projects such as: Lowering Simon Fraser (2019) in Vancouver, Canada; The Grief Prophesy (2017) in Gothenburg Biennale for Contemporary Art; The Blue Spring/Mata Air Murni (2015) for Jakarta Biennale, Indonesia; 28th October 2834 (2015) for Spaced 2: Future Recall in Western Australia; her permanent installation Evening Echo in Shalom Park, Cork, Ireland (2011); Let us keep together for Iteration: Again, Tasmania (2011) and Signs and Wonders Shall Appear for Close Encounters, Chicago (2010). Each project has resolved itself differently in terms of their media, modes of presentation and public engagement, however all of them share a search for the peculiar local narratives and histories that Leach uses as entry points to compose projects that inhabit the space between what is expected and what happens, between potential and actual forms.
Maddie has worked with international curators Charles Esche, Claire Doherty, Hou Hanru, Nav Haq and Mercedes Vicente; Australian-based curators Blair French, Zara Stanhope and David Cross; and with New Zealand curators Christina Barton, Natasha Conland, Charlotte Huddleston, Abby Cunnane and Bruce Phillips. She has been an artist in residence with Serlachius Museums (Mänttä, Finland); CAG Field House Programme (Vancouver, Canada); National Sculpture Factory (Cork, Ireland); International Art Space (Western Australia); Spike Island (Bristol, UK) and Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, USA).
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The Fountain: An art-technological-social
drama
Maddie Leach
- 2020-01-01 -
Where do I end and you begin: The Grief
Prophesy
Maddie Leach
3rd PARALLAX Forum - Stereotypes & Storytelling: Research Strategies for Art Education - 2019-01-01 -
Lowering Simon
Fraser
Maddie Leach
City of New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada - 2019-01-01 -
One Day Sculpture: Ten Years
On
Maddie Leach
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia - 2019-01-01 -
A Park and a
Rock
Maddie Leach
Memory Connection - 2019-01-01 -
Art school and the public
sphere
Maddie Leach
2nd Parallax Forum Katowice: Art, Society and Political Correctness - 2018-01-01 -
The Grief
Prophesy
Maddie Leach
Gothenburg International Biennale for Contemporary Art (GIBCA 2017) - 2017-01-01 -
The Grief Prophesy: Samtal om black metal, estetik och
minne
Maddie Leach, Thomas Bossius, Kristian Wåhlin
Göteborgs Konsthall - 2017-01-01 -
The Blue Spring / Mata Air
Murni
Maddie Leach
Jakarta Biennale Jakarta, Indonesia - 2016-01-01