Madeleine Marie Slavick

Madeleine Slavick is an author and photographer whose work is notable for crossing cultural barriers. Her writing and photography have been published and exhibited internationally.

Biography
Madeleine Slavick was born in the United States, moved to Hong Kong where she lived from 1988 to 2012, and then to New Zealand, where she is now based.

Reviewer Bradley Winterton in the Taipei Times described Slavick's Delicate Access as having "poise and a terse intelligence" with "nothing unbuttoned" and having a "minimalist concentration." Reviewer Tammy Ho in the Asian Review of Books described her poetry as transforming small and "seemingly insignificant things" into "meaning-loaded symbols." Reviewer Michael Ingham described her poem Mong kok Market, about life in Hong Kong, as depicting the "instant slaughter one cannot avoid witnessing at the live meat and fish stalls."

Slavick has stated, "In the projects I undertake, I try to create a sense of community which enriches me, the other participants, and the audience."

She also exhibits with her three artist-sisters, Susanne Slavick, Sarah Slavick, and elin O’Hara slavick.

Publications, Exhibitions, Interviews, Awards

 * TOWN - a book of prose and poems and photography, The Cuba Press, 2024
 * Radio New Zealand (RNZ) Interview with Mark Amery, 2023
 * Finalist, Parkin Prize, New Zealand, 2022
 * Essay 'The Yellow Chair' first published in Cha - An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), subsequently in Monday Artpost (Toronto), Love in the Time of Covid Chronicle (NZ) and Guernica (New York), 2022
 * 'Madeleine Slavick's Art of Looking' by David Mealing, in EyeContact and PhotoForum, 2021
 * Photography published in D-Photo, New Zealand, 2020
 * Family Tree Whakapapa – elin o'Hara, Madeleine, Sarah and Susanne Slavick / Exhibition: Aratoi Museum, and Wallace Arts Centre, New Zealand, 2020–2021
 * Essay on Family Tree Whakapapa  by Erin Kavanagh-Hall
 * Writing/Photography published in various New Zealand publications: Art News, Art New Zealand, Blue Five Notebook, Bonsai – Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand, Broadsheet, Flash Frontier, Jacket, Love in the Time of Covid, Poetry in Multicultural Oceania, Poetry New Zealand, Sweet Mammalian, Takahe, and Tuesday Poem
 * Photography portfolio featured in PhotoForum, New Zealand, with an essay by Janet Bayly, 2019
 * Photography exhibited in 2019 Wairarapa Art Review, Selector: Karl Chitham
 * Photography published in My Body, My Business: New Zealand sex workers in an era of change (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2018)
 * HONG KONG SONG – solo photography exhibition, The Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, 2016; and Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Masterton, 2015
 * RED – solo photography exhibition, Victoria University of Wellington, 2015
 * Founding coordinator of the writing series Wairarapa Word since 2012
 * FIFTY STORIES, FIFTY IMAGES – book of prose and photography, Hong Kong: MCCM Creations, 2012
 * Free Poetry, part of the Greytown Arts Festival, 2012
 * GHOST RECORDS – with Luo Hui, published in ArtPost 2010, exhibited in Toronto, 2011
 * SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL MIGHT HAPPEN, book of poetry with photography by Shimao Shinzo, Tokyo: Usimaoda Books, 2010
 * CHINA VOICES, co-editor, book of non-fiction, Hong Kong: Oxfam, 2010
 * MY FAVOURITE THING, curator of exhibition in Hong Kong; co-editor of book of non-fiction, published in Beijing: Joint Publishing, 2005; and Taipei 2006
 * DELICATE ACCESS, solo exhibition in Hong Kong; book published with Chinese translations by Luo Hui, Hong Kong: Sixth Finger Press, 2004
 * COLO(U)R, ebook, exhibition, postcards, from 2003
 * RECONSIDERED CROSSINGS – Representation beyond Hybridity, group exhibition, Hong Kong and Vienna, 2001-2
 * ROUND – Poems and Photographs of Asia, poetry and photography exhibition (Hong Kong and Cairo); book published with Barbara Baker in Hong Kong: Asia 2000 Publishers, 1998
 * FLESH & BLOOD – group exhibition in USA from 1997, and in Hong Kong, 2000
 * TOGETHER, solo exhibition at five locations in Hong Kong and Singapore, 1996
 * Solo exhibition at Hong Kong Fringe Club, 1991
 * Daily blog from 2010 – 2014