Collection: Madeline Richards

Madeline Richards exhibited at the John Mann Gallery EXPRESSION 2024 exhibition.

Madeline Richards is a figurative painter exploring ideas around memory, grief, and the body. Through paint, she describes the body and its environment in transformation. By approaching memory as a recollection and as a sensation in the body, her paintings reveal a sense, both familiar and strange, that comes from the remaking and transforming of memory.

Richards is a recent graduate from the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Ottawa. During her studies she was the first uOttawa recipient of the 13th Street Winery Expression Award, as well as the 2022 recipient of the Penny Cousineau-Levine Award for her thesis support paper. She was also a recipient of the Stonecroft bursary to attend the Venice Biennale field course. In 2022, Richards’ work was selected for the exhibition FLESH: Embodying Praxis, as part of the The University of British Columbia’s graduate symposium, which took place at the Audain Art Centre. Richards’ thesis work was exhibited at the Ottawa Art Gallery, alongside her MFA cohort, in Le rendu: Art from the University of Ottawa Department of Visual Arts 2022, 2023.