About

Madeleine Collie (she/they) is a British Australian curator, writer and editor whose practice moves across exhibition-making, publishing and public programming. Madeleine has curated exhibitions and performance programmes across Australia, Asia and Europe, working with artists and institutions to foreground environmental ethics, institutional transformation and regenerative cultural practices.

She founded the Food Art Research Network in 2020, she is co-editor of the anthology Earth Ethics: Art Institutions and Regenerative Practices with  Megan Cope, Charlotte Day  and Melissa Ratliff  which was published by MUMA and Monash University Publishing in 2025. She is guest curator at Kin Museum, Sápmi with Maria Lind. With Creative Australia funding and support from Bioart Society she established a multi-year research correspondence Follow the Plants, in a dialogue with curator Yvonne Billimore and eighteen artists which explores how plants make worlds. This research will be published collaboratively by Onomatopee and Discipline in 2026.

She is currently Curator at Stanley Picker Gallery in London where she is working on upcoming exhibitions with FRAUD, Sophie Huckfield and Abbas Zahedi as well as collaborating on a public programme to celebrate the galleries 30th anniversary. She has held academic research and teaching positions at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Monash University, RMIT, Melbourne, University of New South Wales, Sydney and regularly lectures, mentors and leads workshops on contemporary art, politics and curatorial practice in international contexts.

Previously she led The Ash Project from 2016-2019 which was a transdisciplinary public art collaboration to memorialise the landscape scale death of a species of tree, with Kent Downs National Landscape, Whitstable Biennale, Forest Research and Turner Contemporary. Other exhibitions and programmes include only ever almost there at Royal Pump House Museum and Gallery (2018), Daylighting, Welcome Collection, (2018), The Ash Archive, galleries across regional UK (2017-18), Exercises in Happiness at Arts House & Melbourne International Art Festival, Melbourne, Substation Gallery Singapore, Priory Meadows, UK, (2006-08), Strangers and Intimacy at Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, and West Space, Melbourne (2004-5).  She has produced expanded curatorial projects with Liquid Architecture & CAST (Aus), Whitworth Museum, Common Ground, Custom Food Lab, Centre for Biocultural Diversity, Live Art Development Agency, UK, Connexiones Improbables, Spain, Anti Festival, Finland, and South Projects, Indonesia. She is part of the international curatorial collective Study Pattern, she was founding curatorial director of Custom Food Lab (2018-21), part of the performance duo Panther (2004-10), and sound art practice Mimic Mass with Nigel Brown (2002-08).

They were recently awarded a PhD in Art History and Theory / Curatorial Practice at Monash University and  holds a Masters in Curatorial / Knowledge from Goldsmiths College London.