Madeleine Ruggi
Marine diesel engine components 114,
Steel,
30 x 40 x 30 cm, 2026
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About the Artist:
Madeleine Ruggi (b.1991) is an artist working in London, UK. Ruggi’s work seeks to grasp her own position among vast infrastructures of trade that sprawl across the globe yet remain largely unseen by consumers. She uses conversations, site visits, field recordings, radio communications and found materials along with steel, collage and print to ask how she can responsibly engage with the world, understanding how decisions in her immediate setting may impact systems at large.
Her seemingly ordinary, small-scale found materials have ranged from a slice of container ship exterior to a radio scanner or a length of tyre tread, all of which bear witness to the overlooked, and often remarkably sculptural, physical materials that serve gargantuan trade systems. Her direct, bodily engagement with these loaded materials connects individual states of desire with large-scale demand, and reflects on the mediation and power that fuel global industries, while examining the broader consequences of personal consumption.
Madeleine has a BA from Central Saint Martins, London and an MFA from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Her work has been presented at Tate Modern, London; Camden Arts Centre, London; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable; European Cultural Centre, Venice; Guest Projects, London amongst others. She has been awarded the Gilbert Bayes Award from the Royal Society of Sculptors and has received grants from Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and The Eaton Fund. Madeleine has participated in residencies at Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York; Camden Arts Centre, London; Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden; and POP Adriatico, Trieste. Her work has been featured in publications including Frieze, Metropolis M, POP Adriatico and The Guardian.
Her seemingly ordinary, small-scale found materials have ranged from a slice of container ship exterior to a radio scanner or a length of tyre tread, all of which bear witness to the overlooked, and often remarkably sculptural, physical materials that serve gargantuan trade systems. Her direct, bodily engagement with these loaded materials connects individual states of desire with large-scale demand, and reflects on the mediation and power that fuel global industries, while examining the broader consequences of personal consumption.
Madeleine has a BA from Central Saint Martins, London and an MFA from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Her work has been presented at Tate Modern, London; Camden Arts Centre, London; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable; European Cultural Centre, Venice; Guest Projects, London amongst others. She has been awarded the Gilbert Bayes Award from the Royal Society of Sculptors and has received grants from Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and The Eaton Fund. Madeleine has participated in residencies at Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York; Camden Arts Centre, London; Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden; and POP Adriatico, Trieste. Her work has been featured in publications including Frieze, Metropolis M, POP Adriatico and The Guardian.
