MADELINE CARDONE

Born 1996.
Canberra AUSTRALIA

RECENT:
Touching Space //
COX Gallery
05.05.25 - 13.06.25

CURRENT:
Glass Chrysalis II //
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
27.09.25 - 27.02.26

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Madeline Cardone lives and works on Ngunnawal traditional lands in Canberra, and is a graduate from the School of Art and Design, The Australian National University. Her sculptural practice explores the thresholds between spaces, embodied memory, and material transformation, deriving from a broader interest in archaeological, anatomical and architectural theory.

Her work in glass draws on ideas of the body-as-landscape, phenomenological qualities of space, and notions of memory, preservation and decay, often referring to the material as a ‘skin’. This connection to the body is personal, of being uncomfortable in one’s skin, of taking up space, or surrendering to it. Her objects are not only formal studies, but are explorations of proximity and relationships between forms, people, the past and now. Cardone challenges the limits and lifecycles of materials, inviting slow, tactile contemplation and evoking a strange familiarity by recontextualising and abstracting space and form, further shifting an understanding and expectation of what materials can hold, reflect and become.

Cardone has exhibited nationally and internationally since 2017. She was awarded 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).

Above: Canberra Glassworks, 2025. Photo: Brooke McEachern.
Below: Paddington, Syndey, 2024. Photo: Matteo Macri.

I acknowledge that I work on unceded Ngunnawal country, and pay my respects to its custodians and cultures, past and present.

2025

TOUCHING SPACE
05 MAY - 13 JUNE
COX ARCHITECTURE
CANBERRA

Touching Space is an exhibition of works in glass and drawing that study how the body encounters, interacts with and understands space and form. I continually contemplate how these experiences, though often transient, are embedded in bodily memory, and how to foster a connection between something as intangible as memory and something as physical as material.

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2025

TOUCHING SPACE
EXHIBITION ESSAY
BRONTE CORMICAN-JONES

Madeline Cardone’s work is archaeological—not merely in subject but in spirit. Rocks, she tells us, are the bones of the earth. They protrude, they fragment, and yet they persist. But what Cardone unearths in Touching Space is not only geological—it is somatic. The body, too, is an archaeological site. It holds history in its folds, its scars, its fragilities. It wears the passage of time like the earth wears erosion. It is in this layered, shifting terrain that Cardone’s work finds its resonance.

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2022

DRILL HALL GALLERY
23 FEBRUARY - 6 MARCH
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY,
CANBERRA

The Drill Hall Gallery presents a pop-up exhibition of the works of Madeline Cardone, showcasing her Honours graduation collection.

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