Showing from February 5th to February 19th, 2024
" ‘Reflections Hold Me When I Can’t’ shows a wide array of vulnerable experiences, including complicated familial grief and my first heartbreak, through the combination of self-portraiture and drawing. When feelings of immense overwhelming sadness, joy or even mundane boredom come to fruition, I hold my camera close like a security blanket. My tears stop running. All I can think about is the light. The patterns. The shadows. The colours. The reflections then hold me when I can’t. As I adjust the shutter speed and focus, I no longer float; I am grounded in this moment of time. I am held both within the reflective surface and within the camera. Due to the nature of film photography these emotions are often at times held within the metal cage of my camera for months at a time. Once the film is developed, the emotions once previously captured, escape and I am able to reflect back on the emotions I had felt at the time. In conjunction with the 10 photographs, there are 10 corresponding drawings done around the same time which provide insight into the feelings behind the photographs. I invite you to step into my shoes and experience these emotions as if they were your own."
About the Artist
Madeline King is a Guelph and Brampton based photographer and artist whose work aims to target the perception of ourselves and our bodies within a cultural setting. Through the use of reflection, shadows and portraiture she explores the duality and complexity of identity and emotion. Their previous work has been exhibited in group shows at the artBar and 10C in Guelph, with additional work published within CAMs KIND MIND magazine and PhotoEd magazine. As a recent neuroscience graduate from the University of Guelph, Madeline’s work in the future will work to combine neuroimaging with photography and drawing in order to further explore themselves and others.
Follow Madeline King on Instagram @mads.king15
Featured Work:
1. First love never dies
Photograph: 8”x12”, Single exposure 35mm film, 2023
Drawing: 8 “x 12”, Pen and ink, 2023
Available for Purchase: 40$ for an 8” x 12” print
(NOT PICTURED) 2. I love you I say to myself
Photograph: 8”x12”, Single exposure 35mm film, 2022
Drawing: 4.5”x4.5”, Pen, 2022
3. Complicated grief
Photograph 8”x10”, Single exposure 35mm film, 2021
Drawing: 8.5”x 5.5”, charcoal and marker, 2022
4. Vacant Saunders
Photograph: 8”x12”, Single exposure 35mm film, 2021
Drawing: 9.5” x 12”, pen, ink, tracing paper, 2022
5. I feel Yellow. Noticeable
Photograph: 8”x10”, Single exposure 35mm film, 2022
Drawing: 8.5”x 5.5”, pen, 2022
6. Torn
Photograph: 8”x10”, Single exposure 35mm film, 2023
Drawing: 12“x 8.75”, water colour, pen & polaroid, 2023
Available for Purchase: 40$ for an 8” x 12” print
7. As white walls turn green
Photograph: 8”x10”, Single exposure 35mm film, 2023
Drawing: 4.5”x 4.5”, pen 2023
Available for Purchase: 40$ for an 8” x 12” print
8. Consuming Wind
Photograph: 8”x10”, Single exposure 35mm film, 2023
Drawing: 4.5”x 4.5”, pen 2023
Available for Purchase: 40$ for an 8” x 12” print
9. Grayson
Photograph, 8”x10”, Single exposure 35mm film, 2023
Drawing: 4.5”x 4.5”, pencil, 2023
Available for Purchase: 40$ for an 8” x 12” print
10. 51
Photograph: 8”x10”, Single exposure 35mm film, 2022
Drawing: 10.25” x 8.75”, Pen and Ink, 2022
The work can be viewed based on the order of left to right, according to the numbers above:
10, 5, 7, 9, 1, 3, 6, 8, 4
100% of sales are given back to the artist!