Madison Blake

Graduate Certificate of Visual Art

My body of work explores the relationship between humans and the resources we derive from the natural environment to create our homes. I explore these relationships through sculptural forms, found materials and sound. Specifically, the artworks are created from materials sourced from backyards and building developments in Greater Melbourne/Naarm. I am interested in the way our relationship to the materials that build our homes is disconnected from the larger home of humans – the earth’s surface. I seek to give a restorative voice to discarded objects through a conversational exploration of the materials. I document the disconnect between humans and the value and management of natural resources in a time of climate crisis. My work does not strive for the perfection found in manufactured objects, but embraces the unpolished beauty of the natural world.