Madi Mercer
Madi Mercer
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Natural and Died raffia grass 20 H x 15 W x 30L cm, 2025
Old people that belong to our community and Country, now sit in the shadows of cardboard boxes, on cold metal shelves. Every now and then they see their 'freedom' as the subject of fluorescent voyeurism. Disconnected. Objectified. Unknown. Held captive in dark basements, when they should be embraced, remembered and loved by their families, and welcomed back by the land that once knew their footsteps. Yet there is blood on their white gloves.
Madi Mercer is a Wadawurrung multi-disciplinary artist, practicing and living on Wurundjeri Country. Her art is an extension of self; an act of reclaiming Cultural practice and identity, with an emphasis of highlighting the beauty, as well as the hardships of what it means to be a First Nations person in Colonised ‘Australia’. Madi processes her experience through the mediums of weaving, painting, glasswork, sculpture, textiles, and digital art. Weaving has been a passion of hers since she was young, utilising it as a therapeutic practice as well as an expressive one; healing through stitches.