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Glorious Descent

Glorious Descent
Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40cm

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Candy Exhibition Opening

Saturday 14th March 2015
NANA contemporary art space Newcastle

Exhibition Runs 11 - 28 February 2015










Thursday, February 19, 2015

What is CANDY ? An introduction by Ineke Dane


Squirm & Thrive 2015 Acrylic on canvas 90x110cm

CANDY 
11 - 28 February 2015
NANA contemporary art space Newcastle

When I walked into Madeleine’s Islington studio, at the back of her house looking over a garden (giant jacaranda tree with chooks beyond), Candy reminded me of a saying: first there was the word, and the word was replaced by flesh, and it never healed. With flesh, without word, the world becomes infinite, un-bound by parameters of language.

Madeleine’s fleshy landscapes are just that, open wounds, no beginning, no ending, rather suggestions of infinite manifestations, a never ending morphing of worlds. Internal organs become the landscape, become external, as intestines become mountains as fertility eggs become reservoirs. Colour is indiscriminate, purple jacaranda by pastel pink by brown by indigo. At times awkward, calmer as eyes adjust, what begins as unnatural steers now to a norm and a world where branches can be yolk.

And what of the things that live in these landscapes? They oscillate between craving the artificial and being umbilical-bound to the natural, a mental tug of war to find place and peace in a world of manufactured candy-like temptations. These temptations border beauty but before long fall to the realm of the grotesque; an overindulgence that ends in decay, a melting return to an amoebic state.

With Madeleine’s Candy we see a peeling back and reduction to the point where reality and what once was meet: is the world today, was it the Archean.


Ineke Dane



Sunday, February 8, 2015


NANA contemporary art space warmly invites you and your friends
to the exhibition and opening event of CANDY
a solo exhibition of paintings by

 

MADELEINE CRUISE 


Evocative of real and imagined landscapes CANDY brings to life a luminous dream like state where the subconscious roams free. In a world of manufactured temptations beauty borders the grotesque and becomes an over indulgence ending in decay. 


11 - 28 February 2015
Opening Event: Sat 14 Feb 1 - 4pm

NANA Contemporary art space Newcastle

Squirm and thrive 2015 90x110cm acrylic on canvas