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Tia Madden
I am an artist and writer whose installations, texts, and drawings examine the overlap between drawing and writing. Interested in how humans encode, preserve, and transmit knowledge through mark-making, I consider how marks can be misperceived over time, where their original knowledge may be reshaped, or entirely misread, as a result of being recontextualised. Working across creative non-fiction and the expanded field of drawing, I build on traditions of mark-making and asemic poetry, as well as the languages of abstraction and undeciphered writing systems, to consider how visual forms preserve and transmit information. In doing so, my work aims to activate, engage, and destabilise the meaning-making process, considering the communicative potential of abstract marks when they are framed - or misread - as carriers of hidden meaning.
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Cyphers

Tia Madden, Cyphers, 2024. Ballpoint-pen on paper, hand-sawed patinated copper, hand-cut paper, plywood, black wall paint. Installation, approx. 110cm x 60cm.
Cyphers combines papercutting, ballpoint pen, and hand-sawed copper to create a hypothetical encounter with a fictional, undecipherable script. By inviting audiences to use a speculative cypher to decode a series of abstract drawings, Cyphers explores the communicative potential of abstract marks when they are framed - or misread - as carriers of hidden meaning. The work prompts consideration into the moment a drawing transitions into writing, and asks whether collaborative efforts to decipher, decode, and misread meaningless marks can contribute to the illusion of legibility.