✂️✨ It’s been a minute between posts, and I thought it’s time for a reintroduction (or an introduction, if we’ve never met)
My name is Madelaine Buttini. My friends call me MADBUTT, hence the name. I’m a mid-career visual artist from Brisbane, Australia specialising in collage art (digital, mixed media, and analog). My works touch on themes of feminism & womanhood, flora & femininity, and surrealism. I am currently studying Art History at university, and I love exploring what collage is beyond the institutional art canon.
I’m fairly busy at the moment with @collagecollective and uni. However, I’m always making new art (just need to post it!!) Thank you, if you’re still here after many periods of silence. I’m really looking forward to sharing more art. I hope you drop a comment, a like, a follow, or a DM if my art has connected with you.
Xx Madelaine
#collageart #collageartist #australianartist #australianart
🦋🫠 Turning my favourite collages into animations. And this one I made three or four years ago, it was very popular when it first came out.
Yesterday I shared that I’ve been sober from alcohol for one year. But, I have been sober from weed for more than eight years. I know it’s super popular now to smoke it and do all those fun things, but for me it wasn’t the best thing to put into my body towards the end. It was really bad for my mental health, and wasn’t something I could continue doing. I think a lot of long term smokers know this feeling, when the chill becomes more and more intense anxiety.
I do still dream about it though. It’s really weird! Sometimes I can taste it in my dreams too.
#soberity #collageart #art #artworks #animation
🌞🌸 GÜD THINGS TAKE TIME 🌸🌞
In 2024, I started printing digital collages and adding hand embellishments onto them (See image 2). I never sold or released any prints with this technique as I felt the process was not complete. I knew there was something missing from them, and while studying Art History at UQ, I knew I’d find the compliment to my collages. Little did I know it would take 2 years for that come to fruition!
In early 2025, I took the photography course and in it we learnt about the process and history of photography. This absolutely fascinated me; how can the sun or chemicals transfer images and leave such beauty? We discussed the myth of photography in terms of technique, and this drew me closer towards solar prints. At the same time, I was still processing some personal things, and left those thoughts on the back burner.
Later that year, I made a series of four hand embellished artworks using a new digital collage. Having parked my thoughts from 2024 so far back into my mind, I simply thought that I had lost the train of thought regarding this series and continued my studies, running my business, and working casually.
A few weeks ago, I got back onto Roland Barthes for an essay, and remembered my desire to create myths of my collages through photo emulsions. This has brought me to today… solar printing in my new studio, monitoring UV indexes, and seeing magic in front of my eyes.
I will be making a series of prints of these works. I’m not quite sure what the presentation of this will look like; might be an exhibition, or might be just sold on my website. But either way, I’m excited, and haven’t felt this for sometime.
#brisbaneart #collageart #solarprints #cyanotype
If you want to do a commission with me, please get in touch! ❤️✂️ Big thanks to @bounceinc for giving me the opportunity to make something that will continue to inspire your team towards your goals. ✨🤩 #collageart #artist #australianartist #femaleartist
☁️ I can’t be the only person, who as a little kid in an aeroplane, used to wonder what it was like to have a bath in the clouds ✨
#collage #collageart #femaleartist
I’ve been quietly excited to share something about the Year of the Horse. As a Virgo, symbolism and cycles have always felt deeply personal to me. They offer a language for transformation, a way of understanding who we are, and who we are becoming.
Five years ago, I created my Horoscope Collection, which was sold in partnership with Prospect NY. That body of work was born from a place of alignment. We even won an award for the candle collection, which at the time felt like confirmation that I was exactly where I was meant to be. I felt spiritually connected to my art, to myself, and to something larger than both.
But that chapter was followed by a much harder one.
A year later, I began a long and exhausting journey inward; exploring sobriety (sometimes unsuccessfully), and finally confronting years of trauma and pain in therapy. Breaking down the walls I had built to survive was not graceful or poetic. It was raw, some of which I think you can see in my past posts. I realised the foundation I had built my adult life on was unstable, shaped by addiction, trauma, and disconnection from myself. I had to take everything back to the studs. My identity. My sense of safety. My understanding of who I was.
Looking back now, would I do it again? Without hesitation, yes. Would I do some things differently? Of course. I am human. I was doing the best I could with what I had.
What carried me through was belief. Even when I lost friends to death or misaligned values, jobs, opportunities, and parts of myself, I never fully lost the belief that something better was possible. Those years stripped so much away, but they also gave me something far more valuable: resilience, self-trust, and the ability to see myself and my behaviours honestly.
I’m sharing this because mental health is not linear. Healing is not aesthetic. I am still medicated, and I will be for the rest of my life. I am still rebuilding my inner world, piece by piece, day by day.
But I am here. And I am still creating. And that, in itself, is something sacred.
#yearofthehorse #collageart #australianartist #australianart #animation
☀️ Dreaming of Sunny Days Where We All Get Along
I’d love to live in a world where there is no facism, hate, disregard for others or anything else bad. I’d love to live in a world where minorities isn’t even a concept used to describe people and communities. I’d love to live in a world where everyone felt safe and everyone helped one another. I’d love to live in a world where people could hold opposing views and still get along.
But that is just a dream…
#collageart #animation #livecreatively #hope
🦋 I’m back 🦋
Love a little lay low, meditate, and get ready for bigger and better things! I hope everyone has a lovely start to their week and month. Now is a beautiful time to move forward with new beginnings, putting old things to rest and letting go of what is out of your control. Trust the universe and the otherworldly powers that be!
💕 #happy #butterflies #collageart
