Madeline Simm (b. 1994) is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist. She graduatuated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2018 and is currently completing a Masters of Landscape Architecture at the University of Melbourne. Simm moves fluidly between structure and spontaneity - her practice continues to evolve through a rigorous exploration of colour theory, materiality and the historical languages of abstraction.
Selected works
Exhibitions
Education
- 2025
- Masters of Landscape Architecture, The University of Melbourne
- 2021
- Master of Writing and Publishing, RMIT University, Melbourne
- 2018
- Bachelor of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts
- 2015
- Diploma of Visual Art, RMIT University, Melbourne
Solo exhibitions
- 2025
- Inflorescence at Mary Cherry Contemporary, Melbourne
- 2023
- Blue Skirt Waltz, CHAUFFER, Sydney
- 2022
- My friend's in the other room, Connors Connors, Melbourne\
- Silver Cloud, Savage Garden, Melbourne
- 2021
- Walking across a square in a green dress, curated by Lucina Lane, 5, Melbourne
- 2020
- Light of a Clear Blue Morning, Book/Coffee/Print/Work.Shop, Melbourne
- 2019
- Studies for Quilts, Cathedral Cabinet, Nicholas Building, Melbourne
Selected group exhibitions
- 2025
- Upcoming....SPRING1883 Art Fair, The Windsor Hotel, Melbourne\
- Built Environment, OFFICE, Collingwood, Melbourne\
- Thousands of Luminious Spheres, Haydens Gallery, Melbourne
- 2024
- Love, Labour, Lost, Mary Cherry Contemporary, Melbourne\
- Shapeshifters, CHAUFFEUR, Sydney\
- Exterior Monologue, curated by Virginia Overall and Olivia O'Donnell, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne\
- Carousel, Holiday Program, Melbourne\
- Colour is Enough, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
- 2023
- Disguises, curated by Ruth O’Leary, MEJIA, Melbourne\
- Surface edge, curated by Darcey Bella Arnold, Sutton Projects, Melbourne\
- Pink Heat, curated by Emma Nixon, Hayden’s Gallery, Melbourne\
- Stray Pages Group Show II, NGBE Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne\
- The Universe Speaks in Small Paintings, Bard’s Apothecary, Melbourne\
- Soft Edges, Branching Universe, Melbourne
- 2022
- Atoms and Passions, CHAUFFEUR, Sydney\
- Lucina Lane, Lisa Radford, Madeline Simm, couch work table, Melbourne\
- Love, Work (For KD), Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne\
- Text Tile, Caves Gallery, Melbourne (co-curated with Tia Ansell and Anna Fiedler)\
- Das Boot, ACCA, Melbourne\
- Tingling Honey Bee, Branching Universe Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne (co-curated with Angela Brennan)
- 2021
- Full House, Hapua Street, Auckland, New Zealand\
- Webbed Feet, Connors Connors, Melbourne\
- The Exterminating Pencil, above 391 Sydney Road, Brunswick, Melbourne
- 2020
- These Jeans Are Too Tight, with Augusta Vinall-Richardson, 11 Beaconsfield Parade, Northcote, Melbourne\
- Kindled Spirits, 57b Caroline Street, Clifton Hill, Victoria
- 2019
- Friends and Family, Daine Singer, Melbourne\
- The Process of Making, West Space, Melbourne\
- Fringe Furniture 33, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
- 2018
- Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of The Arts, Melbourne\
- Majlis Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne\
- Bradd is rich but Bradd has no money, curated by Lucina Lane and Trevelyan Clay, above 20A Centre Place, Melbourne\
- Garage Sale, Book/Coffee/Print/Work.Shop, Melbourne\
- La Rosa Social Club, RVCA Head Office, Orange County, United States
- 2017
- La Rosa Social Club, Carriageworks, Sydney\
- New Works by Casey Jeffery, Jordan Halsall and Madeline Simm, VCA Art Space, Melbourne\
- Material Matters, curated by Tia Ansell, VCA Art Space, Melbourne\
- What Are Chives Good For?, The Living Museum of The West, Maribyrnong, Melbourne\
- Springtime 2, Corner Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne
- 2016
- Springtime, Corner Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne\
- Fresh!, Painting Department Exhibition, VCA Art Space, Melbourne
- 2015
- Form a Line, Please, Brunswick Art Space, Brunswick, Melbourne
Awards
- 2018
- National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association Award, VCA Graduate Exhibition\
- Majlis Travelling Scholarship (shortlisted)
- 2017
- Mural, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne\
- Window painting, Monk House Design, Brunswick, Melbourne
- 2016
- Maude Glover Fleay Bursary Scholarship\
- Heide Museum Award, Proud exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts\
- Lightbox Installation, Everyday Coffee, Collingwood, Melbourne
Exhibition Essays + Poetry
- 2022
- Outline Imager, Elyss McCleary, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne\
- Morning of the world, Tristan Davies, Laila Gallery, Sydney\
- Hitting the Nail, Emily Ferretti, Sumer Gallery, Tauranga, New Zealand\
- Introspections, Julia Stewart, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, Melbourne\
- Double Violet Continued, Hannah Maskell, published by Stray Pages, Melbourne
- 2021
- Like, tomorrow, Angela Brennan, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne\
- How do you wish for a lifetime of happiness?, Augusta Vinall Richardson, Discordia Gallery, Melbourne
- 2020
- I Haven't Seen The Moon Tonight, Elynor Smithwick, Otomys Contemporary, London/Melbourne (online)