VCA ART 2020

Madeleine Minack

Honours

As an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily in installation and sculpture, my practice derives from a process of accumulation. I collect discarded found objects to produce small, intimate sculptures which reflect minute details of normally unnoticed everyday matter. Through this process of collection I create something that, from a distance, looks insignificant. However, upon close examination the sculptures become a detailed and complex body of work. Made from forgotten things and re-presented with wax as a binder, the small sculptures—often no larger than a thumb nail—form a home for that which would normally be lost. Initially exploring journeys and passages, my work speaks to the everyday mundane and repetition. My artworks form a nest for discarded objects which would otherwise deteriorate into nothing.

Madeleine Minack, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Madeleine Minack, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Madeleine Minack, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Madeleine Minack, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Madeleine Minack, *Layered with green upside down smiley face*, chromira photographic print, plastic, blutack, acrylic paint, dirt, unknown material, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowksy.
Madeleine Minack, Layered with green upside down smiley face, chromira photographic print, plastic, blutack, acrylic paint, dirt, unknown material, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowksy.
Madeleine Minack, *Balanced*, chromira photographic print, plastic, wax, wire, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowksy.
Madeleine Minack, Balanced, chromira photographic print, plastic, wax, wire, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowksy.
Madeleine Minack, *Untitled (wire wrap), Untitled (mountain), Untitled (pink and white form), Untitled (dip), Untitled (long), Untitled (red and green, festive?)*, wire, glass, glue, plastic, plaster, alginate mould, grey paint, rubber, wax, natural fibres, blutack, foamcore, playdough, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowksy.
Madeleine Minack, Untitled (wire wrap), Untitled (mountain), Untitled (pink and white form), Untitled (dip), Untitled (long), Untitled (red and green, festive?), wire, glass, glue, plastic, plaster, alginate mould, grey paint, rubber, wax, natural fibres, blutack, foamcore, playdough, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowksy.
Madeleine Minack, *Untitled (dip)*, wire, wax, plastic, natural fibres, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowksy.
Madeleine Minack, Untitled (dip), wire, wax, plastic, natural fibres, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowksy.
Madeleine Minack, *Untitled (mountain)*, alginate mould, grey paint, glue, rubber, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowksy.
Madeleine Minack, Untitled (mountain), alginate mould, grey paint, glue, rubber, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowksy.
Madeleine Minack, *Untitled (long)*, plastic, blutack, foamcore, glue, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowksy.
Madeleine Minack, Untitled (long), plastic, blutack, foamcore, glue, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowksy.
Madeleine Minack, *hmmm mess*, chromira photographic print, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowksy.
Madeleine Minack, hmmm mess, chromira photographic print, 2020. Documentation by Guy Grabowksy.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the people of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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