Madeline Cardone (b.1996) lives and works on Ngunnawal country. She gained her education in Visual Arts and Art History/Curatorship at the ANU School of Art and Design in Canberra (2018). Her practice is primarily sculptural, underpinned by an interest in architectural theory and how the body encounters space and materiality. Her work engages predominantly with glass, but also extends to material explorations in ceramics, drawing, photography and performance.

Her current work plays with sensory and material tensions within black glass. She explores the notion of ‘glass as skin’, as a way of conveying an experience of space and bodily memory. Her works frame the interplay of light, shadow in sculptural, tangible form to contemplate how the physical and intangible aspects of human experience are shaped by the spaces, moments, and memories we inhabit.

Madeline has exhibited nationally and internationally since 2017, receiving several awards including the Bassett Downs Honours Scholarship in Glass (ANU, 2021), the Vicki Torr Emerging Artist Prize (Ausglass, 2022), and the Aldo Bellini Acquisition Award for Milano Vetro Under-35 (Milan, 2024).    

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2025, Canberra Glassworks
Photo Credit: Brooke McEachern