Madeleine Child is a celebrated Aotearoa based artist known for her exuberant and experimental approach to ceramics. Her work playfully navigates the boundaries between sculpture and craft, often embracing the humorous, the grotesque, and the absurd. With a background in both fine art and design, Madeleine brings an alchemical sensibility to her making, transforming everyday materials and forms into delightfully unexpected objects.

Her practice explores ideas of accumulation, transformation, and materiality, often challenging the conventions of traditional ceramics. Through vibrant glazes, exaggerated textures, and imaginative forms, she invites viewers to reconsider what is familiar and find beauty in the bizarre.

Madeleine’s works have been exhibited widely across Aotearoa and internationally, and are held in major public and private collections. Her presence at Kingsroy Gallery adds a dynamic, inquisitive voice to our stable of artists, sparking joy, wonder, and curiosity.