Maggie Madden

Maggie Madden (b.1976) is from Connemara, Co. Galway and currently living and working in Dublin. She completed a Masters in Fine Art at NCAD in 2006 and a B.A. in Fine Art Painting at Limerick School of Art and Design in 1998.

Solo exhibitions include Field, RUA RED Gallery 1 (2015); Far and Wide, The Dock, Leitrim (2014); Site Line, The LAB, Dublin (2012); Fading Not Ending, Roscommon Arts Centre (2010). Recent group exhibitions include Futures Anthology, RHA (2015); Tulca, Galway (2015); RUA Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum (2015); Persona, Art Box Projects, Dublin, (2015); 184th Annual Exhibition, RHA (2014); Re-Framing the Domestic in Irish Art, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda (2014); Pallas Periodical Review, Pallas Projects (2013); Futures, RHA (2013); Lacuna, Taylor Galleries (2013); Sluice Art Fair, London (2013); Claremorris Open (2013); What has been shall always never be again, Ormston House, Limerick (2013); Nailing Jelly to the Wall, Monstertruck at Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2013). She received a Visual Art Bursary from the Arts Council in 2014, 2013 and 2011.

In Maggie Madden's work, a diverse array of collected materials are crafted into fragile sculptural formations with geometric affinities. The work is suggestive of architectural structures, but also reflects on our spatial encounters in both the urban landscape and the natural world.

The linear structures made using telephone wire and optical fibre form subtle three dimensional drawings in space, delicately balanced and at times barely visible. During the process of construction the physical limits of the materials are taken in to account, as there is an attempt made at rendering some materials to appear almost weightless. Tension is created as the sculptural formations often have a fragility that teeters on the brink of collapse.