Asha Madge (b.1989 Kent, UK) is a contemporary artist of Tamil Sri Lankan and British heritage, living and working on the land of the Wurundjeri people. She trained in painting at the National Art School in Sydney and in Filmmaking at RMIT. Raised between Hong Kong, England, America, Sri Lanka, and Australia; her approach to painting is informed by the transpositional nature of memory and the conditions relating to transience and displacement. Grounded in philosophical, feminist, and de-colonial theory - her paintings are the result of accumulative reflections surrounding cross-cultural inheritance, bi-racial experience, womanhood,and the human condition at large. Considering time as a depository of meaning and reflective of dynamic elemental contrasts between light and dark, she utilises expressive, intuitive mark-making, multi-and monochrome pallettes and the applications of layered viscosities of paint over extended periods, channeling an embodied fluidity in abstraction. Her work looks to harness the potential of visual media to articulate a compilation of mood and temporality, memory and resistance. She is the founder and current director of a community focused artist-run initiative Visual Diary. The name Visual Diary refers to the private genesis of ideas and upholds an openness to the testing and trialing of artistic concepts. Visual Diary has a focus on community and experimentation as well as a primary ambition to platform artists from diverse and marginalised backgrounds.



Education 


2017-2019           BFA (Painting) , National Art School, Sydney Australia 

2012                     Adv.Diploma Screen and Media, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne Australia



Solo Exhibitions 



2023         Outlines of an Island, Faux Gallery, Melbourne Australia



Group Exhibitions


2025.        Waking is another Dream, Amplify bookstore reading room, Melbourne Australia 

2025         Vizadia is a made-up word (Oil paint, fabric pins, stockings, headset, wedge shoe, paper and superglue on canva), Seventh Gallery Fundraiser, Melbourne Aus. 

2025         Disco Inferno, Seventh gallery, Melbourne Australia 

2025         Do you remember eating oranges at half time? Visual Diary , Melbourne Australia 

2025         The sky has lost its blue colour, I want to be myself always, oil pastel on paper. Salon for Palestine, Visual Diary, Melbourne Australia 

2020         Bush Fire Fundraiser, Grey Gardens Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 

2019          Looking here looking north (Bali state of mind), Two-channel video projection in collaboration with Bridie Gillman/Woven Kolektif 



Community Arts



2023-2025  Founder/Director of Visual Diary Artist-run initiative Melbourne Australia

2025             Artist Consultant (painting) – Feature film, Melbourne Australia 





Awards 

2012         Award for Best Film ,

                  Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in partnership with

                  the Australian Centre of the Moving Image 



Residencies 

2024          Artist-in-residence – De Saram House, Colombo Sri Lanka, facilitated by The Geoffrey Bawa Trust. 

2024          OPEN STUDIO - De saram house alongside Indian architect Anupama Kundoo. 

2025          Auto-photo: A Life in Portraits, RMIT and CCP Photo Residency 



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