About

Madeleine Collie is a curator, artist, writer and researcher who has been working internationally for more than twenty years. Her practice brings together contemporary art, ecology, performance and social practice, creating platforms for artists, researchers, activists and institutions to exchange knowledge on plant politics, food systems and regenerative practices.

In 2020, she founded the translocal Food Art Research Network (FAR), an international platform for artists, curators and researchers to develop long-term collaborative enquiries into food, plants and ecological relations. FAR has connected practitioners across Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas, through exhibitions, performances, publications, public programmes and recipes.

Madeleine is curator and co-editor of Follow the Plants (Onomatopee and Discipline, 2026), an international publication and research project bringing together more than 40 artists, writers and researchers exploring plant relations across cultural and ecological contexts. She is also co-editor of Earth Ethics: Art, Institutions and Regenerative Practices (Monash University Publishing, 2025), which sold out its print run prior to launch, and Tastes of Justice (Routledge, 2026), which launched in Singapore 2025 and Sydney 2026.

She is Curator at Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London, where she has an eighteen month position to  develop exhibitions, commissions, public programmes and a publication for the gallery’s 30th anniversary. Her current collaborations include projects with curator Maria Lind and MO Museum, Vilnius, and Kin Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiruna, exploring food histories, Soviet impacts on landscapes, Indigenous land rights and ecological relations.

Previously, Madeleine led The Ash Project (2016–19), a major UK public art and ecology initiative developed with Kent Downs National Landscape. She was co-director of Custom Food Lab (2018–21) and chair of Bus Projects (2025-26) and has developed projects with Wellcome, Live Art Development Agency, Bioart Society Helsinki, CCA Glasgow and many others. Madeleine holds a PhD in Art History, Theory and Curatorial Practice from Monash University (2025) and has held research and teaching positions at Monash, UNSW, RMIT and Nanyang Technological University. She lectures and publishes internationally on ecological curating, performance, artistic research and institutional change.