Madeline Cardone, Untitled i (fold series), 2021. Kiln formed glass, 135 x 135 x 50 mm.
Madeline Cardone
Chutespace
Friday 17 May - Sunday 9 June
Opening Thursday 16 May 2024, 6pm - 8pm
The artist often draws on ideas about architectural phenomenology and the personal experience of space; space being both physical and felt, defined through the body. Black glass evokes the qualities of shadow, volume and void found in architecture, as well as materialises the human experiences of these qualities. The material outcomes of the glass are unplanned and unpredictable, as its response to the space and environment in the kiln is autonomous. The resulting objects embody spatial dualities and tensions: shadow and light, lightness and weight, movement and stillness, control and non-control; how non-control is as uncomfortable as it is freeing.
About the Artist
Madeline Cardone (b.1996 Canberra) lives and works on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country, and gained her education in Visual Arts and Art History/Curatorship at the ANU School of Art and Design in Canberra. Though primarily trained in glass, she engages with other mediums such as ceramics, drawing, metal and performance. Her current trajectory explores architectural theory and phenomenology, with a particular interest in shadow, light, space, and the body. She often works to develop experimental and unconventional ways of making with her materials, with an inherent sensitivity towards subtle surface and refined form.
