Mobile — MADELINE CARDONE

Born 1996.
Canberra AUSTRALIA

UPCOMING
Fragile Structures: The Architecture of Decay //
Craft & Design Canberra
30.07.26 - 12.09.25

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

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Madeline Cardone’s sculptural practice explores the thresholds between spaces, embodied memory, and material perception, 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. She treats the material like a ‘skin’ through slumping techniques to connect these ideas to the way the body experiences the world. 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.

MADELINE CARDONE

Born 1996.
Canberra AUSTRALIA

Madeline Cardone’s sculptural practice explores the thresholds between spaces, embodied memory, and material perception, 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. She treats the material like a ‘skin’ through slumping techniques to connect these ideas to the way the body experiences the world. 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).

UPCOMING:
Fragile Structures: The Architecture of Decay //
Craft & Design Canberra
30.07.26 - 12.09.26

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

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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.