Maddie Wilmink

SAIC BFA OCAD IMD in sculpture and eco design

About the artist


Maddie Wilmink is a multimedia artist striving to create work that supports both the individual consumer and the planet. With a focus on bio-tec and sustainable design she aims to produce pieces that engage with a larger issue in their environment and respond to local ecology. Taking inspiration from her childhood spent switching between the American southwest and Vancouver Canada, Maddie reflects on humanity through landscape and organic systems. Her work spans from sculptural structures and furniture, to interactive pieces and wearable art that amplifies or contorts the human form. Her experience with illustration, metalworking, lost wax casting, ceramics, and digital fabrication allows Maddie to create both strategically and intuitively. Her work has been shown within the School of the Art Institute, the Chicago Field Museum and at Woman Made gallery. She strives to heighten awareness of the human impact on the natural world by using processed urban materials, like metal and salvaged scrap that has lost its function within our industrial society. By reverting their forms into new objects that pay homage to nature she seeks to restore balance and forge alternative perception. A critic of late stage capitalism and an advocate for sex and gender equality, Maddie’s work uses queer idenity and a deep love of nature to disort reality and offer a surrealist alternative to our current dystopia.  

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