About

I pay my respects to the Traditional Custodians and the Elders past, present and future of the Kulin Nations and this Country of which I have the privilege to live and work in.

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They want to be touched but will never ask.

Not due to shame but because they are patient.

They know the touch will come, if only for a moment,

or perhaps they will just feel the intrigue, confusion or desire radiating from the viewer, never fulfilled.

Eventually they will be overlooked,

unconsciously or consciously dismissed as boring things in the background.  

But they remain content, quiet and happy.

Patient for when you touch them again.

 

Madison Elrick is a neurodiverse artist working in Naarm (Melbourne, VIC). She works predominantly in sculpture and performance due to her fascination and love of touch, texture and fiddling. Through a process of material experimentation and manipulation, she creates simple, yet absurd forms, from tradition sculptural materials and repurposed domestic items and substances. They comfortably sit in the space between the mundane and the grotesque, uncannily reminiscent of the familial and childish.

 

Having grown up around disability and illness, her work processes the unmentionable, sometimes graphic aspects of caregiving and care-receiving between loved ones. Rather than sensationalising or exploiting these situations, her works are tactile explorations of the banality, humour and love they are comprised of. The works themselves embody a content-ness, a quietness, that often appears between family members when there was nothing left to be felt - nothing could be done but to be with each other.