MADDISON WANDEL

Maddison is currently studying her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at Monash University and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art) from the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne. Her recent exhibitions include the VCA GradShow 2024, Majlis Travelling Fellowship and co-curated exhibition Forest Falls Behind.

2. Maddison Wandel, A Calling Back, 2024, pewter impressions of door frame, door and wall, Installation height specific to original site location. Dimensions variable. POA.

In my visual and written creative practices, I draw from personal experiences with trauma and complex relationship with my mother by using poetry as a support for the physical works that I create. I am looking at the terms with and after as metaphorical containers for the feelings that I find myself being unable to speak aloud or make sense of. I am interested in how the images that I use and take both hold for and from me at once; offering something while also keeping me at a distance.