Madelyn McKenzie is an emerging artist based in Naarm/Melbourne, working primarily across ceramics, sculpture, and installation. Her practice explores the relationship between materiality, memory, and embodied experience, using clay as a responsive and intuitive medium through which personal and sensory knowledge can be accessed and transformed. She recently completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at RMIT University while also participating in Craft Victoria’s Fresh! Fellowship Program in 2025.

Through processes of repetition, assemblage, and material responsiveness, making becomes a rhythmic and introspective act. This way of working cultivates an embodied understanding of memory, where tactile engagement with material activates subtle emotional and physical recollections.

McKenzie’s sculptural forms emerge through slow, iterative processes that prioritise listening to material behaviour rather than imposing fixed outcomes. This openness allows fragments of lived experience to surface indirectly, manifesting as layered and ambiguous forms. She is interested in how sculptural practice can hold complexity and how material presence can act as a conduit for reflection, healing, and imaginative escape.