Mary Cherry Contemporary

Selected works

Exhibitions

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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

2026

Miss Modular, Mary Cherry Contemporary, Melbourne

2025

Inflorescence, 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

2026

What is sex? (a collective painting) II, Kapute Szene, Cologne

The Painter’s Eye: Form & Origin, curated by Antonia Sellbach, Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne

2025

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 Forecourt, Melbourne

Tingling Honey Bee, co-curated with Angela Brennan, Branching Universe Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne

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 and Commissions

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) B Y A N T O N I A S E L L B A C H

Selected Bibliography

2026

Simm, M. Miss Modular. Melbourne: Self-published, 2026.

“Melbourne: Spatial Smarts.” Belle, June/July 2026, 23.

2024

Radford, L. “Angela Brennan’s Art Gallery of Ballarat Exhibition.” The Saturday Paper, April 6, 2024.

Simm, M. Waterslide. Melbourne: Self-published, 2024.

2023

Simm, M. Click, Blink, Floral, Fade. Melbourne: Stray Pages, 2023.

Nixon, E. “Pink Heat.” Exhibition catalogue, Hayden’s Gallery, July 8, 2023.

Pelz, E. “Madeline Simm’s Ethereal Paintings Waltz to Their Own Beat.” Art : Guide, March 15, 2023.

2022

Miekus, T. “Angela Brennan and Madeline Simm.” The Age, December 17, 2022.

Maskell, H. Double Violet Continued. Melbourne: Stray Pages, 2022.

O’Sullivan, J. “Drawing out New Threads, Text Tile Expands Conversation on Textiles.” Art Guide, June 23, 2022.

2021

Brenneman, B. “Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), MADA.” Memo Review,

November 29, 2021.

Lee, E. “Full House: Exhibition Text.” ART Paper, no. 00, Tāmaki Makaurau, : 2021.

2019

Wagstaff, C. “Dealer’s Hand: Undiscovered Artists.” Art Collector, no. 88

(2019).

2016

Paulin, E. “19 Female Artists Unite for Melbourne’s Spring-Time.” Broadsheet, September 23, 2016.