Tia Madden

Born 1999. Lives and works on Dharug Country/Blue Mountains, NSW.

Tia Madden is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and curator working across drawing and installation. Her practice explores the porous boundary between drawing and writing, the poetics of illegibility, and the potential for abstract marks to behave communicatively when framed or misread as language. Combining traditions of abstraction with the materials and aesthetics of writing systems, Madden unsettles assumptions around how meaning is constructed, interpreted and culturally authorised.

Recent solo exhibitions include Some Sort of Notation (2024–25), Firstdraft, Sydney; Misreading Misreading (2025), The Floating Goose, Adelaide; and The Uncode (2026), Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, Katoomba. Madden was the winner of the 25th annual Tim Olsen Drawing Prize (2025) and a finalist in Gosford Emerging, the M16 Drawing Prize and the Wollongong Art Prize (2025).