Asha Maria Madge is a contemporary Australian painter of Tamil Sri Lankan and British heritage. Raised between Hong Kong, England, America, Sri Lanka and Australia her practice is an encounter with visions of transience. Submerged in philosophical, feminist and de-colonial analysis, her work engages in non-linearity, global contexts and the interplay of internal and external influences, considering time as a depository of meaning via the interpretative dualities of painterly viscosities. Embracing an embodied irreverence towards societal and artistic boundaries of categorisation, she emanates a bold and diverse approach to mark-making, scale, colour and experimentation; considering the potential of painting and drawing in space to articulate meaning and act as a compilation of mood and temporality, memory and resistance.


Asha Maria Madge 

B. 1989 UK

Lives and works on Wurundjeri land. 


Education 


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, oil on canvas, Disco Inferno, SEVENTH gallery, Melbourne Australia 

2025          Fields of connection, oil on woodbock, 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 Gallery, 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. 



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