maddie mcneely

Maddie McNeely at Centre CLARK, Montréal “Understory” October 30 – December 13, 2025 Photos: ©Paul Litherland, courtesy of the artist and Centre CLARK, Montréal @centreclark @infinitefruitloop

Last days to visit Understory at Centre CLARK 🌲 Many thanks to the entire team at @centreclark , @cm.richard for the beautiful text, the @est_nord_est team, notably Richard Noury for technical support and production assistance, @institutquebecoisdebenisterie and @maisondesmetiersdartdequebec for support earlier this year, @b.brookbank and @kyleamartens for installation help and my family as well. Thank you to everyone who visited, wrote messages and supported from afar. "This quest for balance is inspired by a layer of the forest: the understory. There, young trees waiting for an opening in the canopy coexist with mature shrubs in the shade. In Understory, McNeely explores how to take root in interstitial zones to create a nurturing and resilient space, despite threats. Like the egg that punctuates the space, a symbol of inception, the promise of life inevitably summons strength and vulnerability; in this delicate encounter, renewal is born, irresistible and necessary." Excerpt from the text by @cm.richard 📝 Documentation by Paul Litherland.

Packing up and feeling deeply grateful for the time spent at @est_nord_est this summer. Productive, peaceful, challenging, exciting - it was many things all at once. Thankful to have been here my babies (!) and with such a kind group of new friends @weipsychica @shirinsalehi_studio @lisatronca @anniefrance.leclerc Thank you to the team @cm.richard @john_peter_pelletier Camille Devaux, Richard Noury and to all those I met the last months, @etiennem , Marco, @jacinthe_loranger @wendt_dufaux and more. Leaving feeling energized and grateful 🌱🌸

Images of KINDLING presented at the end of June. Grateful for the support and advice received throughout the making of these works and for the powerful early evening sun! documentation by @b.brookbank more images and the accompanying thesis text can be found on my website

Very much looking forward to presenting my thesis work next weekend, inside of Canopy 1890 - an old hay barn and now/soon to be project space. Located in Roxton Pond, it’s about an hour and half ish from Montréal. Lots of outdoor space - family and dog friendly. The event is open to all but since it’s a private residence, please send me a message for the address! Reception is Saturday, June 28th from 4pm - 6pm Excited to host you and feed you some snacks 🥨

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Un grand merci à @institutquebecoisdebenisterie , @maisondesmetiersdartdequebec et @centremateria pour m’avoir accueillie en résidence ce dernier mois! Thanks to the team and coordinators for their support 🌱 Some little moments of works in progress, from a lucky month of deep focus and long shop hours.

Maddie McNeely Play With Fire 2025 Merisier, noyer, chêne, chutes d’érable, résine, vernis à ongles, crayon de couleur, cire d’abeille, vernis. 5,7 cm x 58,4 cm x 81,3 cm • Play With Fire 2025 Yellow birch, walnut, oak, maple wood scraps, resin, nail polish, pencil crayon, beeswax, varnish. 2.25” x 23” x 32” @infinitefruitloop 🎞️ @monsemuro 🏰 @espacetransmission

weaving the winter away 🪡

✨Introducing Maddie McNeely: An interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installation, using techniques like wood turning, carving, and weaving. Her work explores how objects, materials, and spaces affect individual and collective well-being. Maddie holds a BFA from NSCAD University and is an MFA candidate in Sculpture at Concordia University. She splits her time between Montréal and the nearby countryside. Real sized match replicas are fixed to the oversized matches that make up the spindles of this banister sculpture. Playful and quietly ominous, this new piece is inspired by a collectible object from a cigarette brand’s ad campaign, evoking associations with vices, forest fires and wilderness survival. It is mainly crafted from repurposed wood scraps. 🧚🏼‍♀️🪵 Présentant de Maddie McNeely: artiste interdisciplinaire qui travaille principalement la sculpture et l’installation, en recourant notamment au tournage, à la sculpture sur bois et au tissage. Son travail explore l’impact des objets, des matériaux et des espaces sur le bien-être individuel et collectif. Titulaire d’un baccalauréat en arts visuels de la NSCAD University, elle poursuit actuellement une maîtrise en sculpture à l’Université Concordia. Maddie partage son temps entre Montréal et la campagne environnante. De véritables allumettes sont fixées aux allumettes surdimensionnées formant les balustres de cette sculpture de rampe. À la fois ludique et subtilement inquiétante, cette œuvre récente s’inspire d’un objet de collection issu d’une campagne publicitaire pour une marque de cigarettes, évoquant tour à tour les vices, les feux de forêt et la survie en milieu sauvage. Elle est principalement fabriquée à partir de retailles de bois recyclé. • 💫We’re thrilled to have Maddie exhibiting at our 2nd Expo. ❄️Les 22 et 23 février @espacetransmission 🧚🏼‍♀️ @infinitefruitloop 📸 @b.brookbank

🧮Holiday Drop Highlight: New sculptures from Maddie McNeely 🧮
 McNeely’s sculptures draw from different contexts and references, such as furniture, plant food, and containers. And like all natural materials, carved wood is highly evocative, both for its utility and its potential. In these arrangements of familiar objects, McNeely organizes our perception in physical space.  Maddie McNeely is an interdisciplinary artist working mainly in sculpture and installation. She holds a BFA from NSCAD University and is currently an MFA candidate at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec. Working mainly with wood, her work investigates physical and psychological relationships to objects, materials, and to lived spaces. Conversations around how the objects we live with, the materials we source and the spaces we occupy, impact our individual and collective well-being is at the forefront of her practice. She has exhibited in Canada, the United States and South America. 
👆Check the link in bio for the full selection of McNeely’s sculptures in PBL! 
 1-5 Images by B.Brookbank 6. Installation images at the 7th edition artch festival, October 15-20, 2024, at Place Ville Marie, Montréal, Québec. Images by William Sabourin 🧮🧮🧮🧮🧮🧮🧮🧮🧮🧮🧮🧮🧮 #patelbrownltd #holidaydrop #limitededition #woodsculpture #maddiemcneely

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