Paint and Plush

Madeleine Cruise is an emerging artist who creates sensational objects and abstract images that explore emotional experience in contemporary life. Driven by a desire to make complex situations tangible, her work investigates such themes as sexuality, relationships and social status, within a personal and broader social context. In a creative process that explores material equivalents between painting and sculpture, Madeleine creates immersive sensual and tactile environments for contemplation.

Friday, January 17, 2014

Solo Show

Hull Sequence in Blue Acrylic on Canvas 85x100cm 2014

SMOKE STEEL SALT

Works Made In Newcastle By Madeleine Cruise

NANA Contemporary Art Space

10 Jan - 1 Feb 2014

Stockton Industry (extract) Collage on Paper 45x100cm 2013

SMOKE STEEL SALT is a collection of collages and paintings that reflect on the working industrial harbour of Newcastle. The compositions are loosely based on the landscape with figure ground relationships between stormy skies and turbulent ocean, fishing trawlers, smoke stacks and freight ships. Through a process of cutting and pasting collage material and building layered brush strokes my artistic practice has become part of the working city of Newcastle.

View the complete series at NANA Contemporary Art Space

185 Hunter St Mall Newcastle

Wed - Sat 10am - 4pm

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