About

Madeleine Collie (she/they) is a curator, artist and writer living and working between Australia and Britain. For more than a decade she has collaborated with artists, activists, scientists and institutions to explore ecological narratives through performance, social practice and research-led encounters. Her practice creates platforms for the circulation of creative knowledge, with a focus on plant politics, food systems and regenerative institutional models. In 2020 she founded the translocal Food Art Research Network (FAR), enabling artists to share long-term research across contexts. FAR has generated artworks, conversations, texts, recipes, books and public programs, including hosting public programmes in Athens, Mexico City, Goa, Kiruna, Singapore, Rome and Melbourne.

Madeleine is co-editor of Earth Ethics: Art, Institutions and Regenerative Practices (Monash University Publishing, 2025), which sold out its first print run prior to launch and co editor of Tastes of Justice (Routledge, 2026). She was recently awarded an 18-month curatorship at the Stanley Picker Gallery in London, where she is developing programs with artists including FRAUD, Nnena Kalu (ActionSpace), Abbas Zahedi, Sophie Huckfield and Emma Hart, and developing the gallery’s 30th anniversary program. She also works on a long-term enquiry with curator Maria Lind, titled Den Goda Maten (The Benevolent Food), exploring the politics of food on Indigenous lands with Kin Museum in Sweden.

Previously Madeleine led the award-winning The Ash Project (2016–2019), a major UK initiative examining ash dieback and memorial practices in partnership with Ackroyd & Harvey, Kent Downs National Landscape, Whitstable Biennale, Forest Research and Turner Contemporary. Madeleine was curatorial director of Custom Food Lab (2018–2021) and has realised projects with Wellcome Collection, Tate Exchange, Folkestone Triennial, Live Art Development Agency, LASALLE, Singapore, CCA Glasgow and West Space. She produced the inaugural Frieze New York and managed Frieze London, spearheading Frieze Live and commissioning ambitious performance works.

Awarded a PhD in Art History, Theory and Curatorial Practice from Monash University in 2025, she has held research positions with UNSW, RMIT and Nanyang Technological University. She publishes and lectures internationally on ecological curating, performance and institutional change.