Madeleine Thornton-Smith is a painter and ceramicist who has obtained various qualifications in visual art, including a Bachelor of Arts and Visual Arts (2013), Honours of Fine Art (Painting) from Monash University (2014), and Diploma of Ceramics at Holmeglen (2017). In 2017 she began studying Honours in Object-Based Practice (Ceramics) at RMIT.
Well, art is officially work now
The Australian arts is so deflated that celebration ensued when the current Labor government merely recognised artmaking as worthwhile labour. Although we can now call art “work”, it doesn’t mean the battle for fair working conditions is over—as Madeleine Thornton-Smith explains.
