Q & A with Madeline Young for THIS PLACE
The Corner Store Gallery - Madeline Young
Q & A with Madeline Young for THIS PLACE
Madeline Young is the Director of The Corner Store Gallery and is also one of the exhibiting artists for our upcoming group exhibition THIS PLACE. Find out more about Madeline’s recent body of work below.
Tell us about your practice: how long have you been making art? What is your favourite subject matter? Where do you create your art?
I completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Newcastle in 2009 and then moved home to Orange to work as the Artist In Residence at Kinross Wolaroi School from 2011 to 2014. I opened The Corner Store Gallery in August 2014 and have been making and selling my art ever since.
I’ve been painting the local landscape since about September 2019. Trees are the focus with colour and composition being the most important elements of my work. I spend a lot of time out in the bush at Mount Canobolas, trees with character are imprinted in my mind and I take a lot of photos. I then make simple drawings with coloured pencils as studies and develop those into oil paintings in my studio behind the gallery.
Tell us about the body of work you've created for THIS PLACE. Why have you chosen this particular place?
For this body of work I’ve created five oil paintings all depicting the bush at night. Since we haven’t been allowed to travel much this year I did a bit of camping out in the local bushland at Mount Canobolas over the winter and spring. It was freezing but I loved it! There was no one else around and it was so quiet and special. We were even able to touch a wild echidna which was really exciting!
I love the way the white trunks and branches of eucalyptus trees seem to glow in the dark under the full moon. The place is completely transformed. That’s what I’ve tried to paint for this series, the “other wordly” glowing of the trees. It’s the same place I always paint, but completely transformed by the light of the full moon.
The Corner Store Gallery - Madeline Young
The Corner Store Gallery - Madeline Young
The Corner Store Gallery - Madeline Young