14 October 2025 – Maddy Pledge

Madeleine Pledge (b. 1993, lives and works in London) is an artist, art worker, and organiser, currently serving on the National Executive Committee of Artists’ Union England. 

In her artistic practice, she works within the context of sculpture; accumulating, stacking, disassembling and recasting the objects, surfaces, and texts that dress and address us under capitalism. Developing a scattered configuration of cropped, stretched, and implied bodies across horizontal and vertical arrangements, she deploys sculptural strategies to investigate questions of individual positioning and collective organisation. In remaking and re-organising body-adjacent forms pulled from the structures of fashion, design, and existing legacies of artistic production, her work engages with the circulation of (feminised) images, the public and private space of the city, and systems of production, consumption, and power.

Her first work in the public realm, superstructure (public image), commissioned by Devonshire Collective, was on view as part of Eastbourne Alive in celebration of the Turner Prize throughout 2023-4. Solo and two-person exhibitions include consumer, presented by Sherbet Green as part of First Editions, Collective Ending, London, 2023; Weaponized Glamour, Case Study Project Space, London, 2021 (with Alice Channer), and Stretch, Flatland Projects, Hastings, 2019. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, London, and Towner, Eastbourne.

In 2022, Madeleine was a lead artist on the Camden Art Centre Transformative Futures programme. In 2020, she was the recipient of a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award grant, and was shortlisted for the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award in 2020 and 2024.