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Madeleine Kelly works across different forms including painting, writing and curation to explore visual approaches to art and science, biosemiotics and conservation as a way of reimagining futures. Her practice is based on the broad interdisciplinary field of painting, with a focus on human entanglements with animals/plants/energy. She is deeply interested in iconography, figuration, the pictorial and painting both as an object and philosophical visual language, with this interest extending to the institutions that circulate it, such as aesthetics and art history. Her research and writing focus on metaphor and inter-iconic visual ‘languages’ that suggest the contingency of knowledge. She views the field of painting as composed of networks of aesthetic, topographic and historical positions. Kelly makes works that are speculative — considering painting as a complex modality. The content of her paintings is often poetic, metaphysical and oblique, despite the underpinning politics. While painting remains core to her practice, it often acquires or expands its significance in its interrelationship with other mediums such as light, sculpture, sound, and, most recently, the kinetic.
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3325