Madeleine Collie

Madeleine Collie is a feminist curator, writer, educator, and researcher based between London and Melbourne/Naarm. Her practice explores collective, non-hierarchical approaches to curating and artistic research, with a focus on the politics and poetics of plants, food, ecology, and more-than-human relations. Through exhibitions, publications, public programmes, and long-term collaborations, she creates platforms that bring together artists, scientists, growers, and communities.

In 2020 she founded the Food Art Research Network (FAR), an international platform for peer learning, curatorial exchange, and slow, collaborative research. She is co-editor of Earth Ethics: Art, Institutions and Regenerative Practices (Monash University Publishing 2025), Tastes of Justice: The Aesthetics and Politics of Food in Asia and Australia (Routledge 2026), and the forthcoming Follow the Plants (Onomatopee & Discipline 2026) funded by Creative Australia.

From 2016–2019 she designed and led The Ash Project, an international art-science collaboration examining plant–human encounters in partnership with Kent Downs, Whitstable Biennale, Forest Research, and Turner Contemporary. Her curatorial collaborations include those with Kin Museum of Contemporary Art, the Wellcome Collection, MO Museum, Vilnius, Live Art Development Agency, London, Connexiones Improbables, Bilbao, Edible Archives, Goa, Liquid Architecture, Naarm, Bioart Society, Helsinki and NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore.

Madeleine holds a doctorate in Art History and Theory and Curatorial Practice from Monash University. She has held research and teaching positions at Monash University, RMIT University, UNSW Sydney, the University of East London, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is currently Curator at Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London (2026–27), where she is developing exhibitions and public programmes for the gallery’s thirtieth anniversary on the site of a former coconut mill.