Maddie Olsen is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Baltimore, Maryland. Maddie grew up a close and quiet observer, with a penchant for friendships with animals and playing in the dirt. The interspecies communities of fiber crafts and biofabrication drew her into a practice that dwells within those spaces.

Maddie examines the ways that domestic spaces structure themselves, and then compares them to a wider range of biological and chemical processes. Their work invents an alternative ecological framework that reflects upon the poetics of these connections. Mediums like weaving and crochet mimic systems of repetition and accumulation that are intrinsic to cellular growth, while bioplastics reference the effects of time and memory. With a focus on material exploration, these bio-domestic objects exist to offer a perspective on the relationships of human/nonhuman, object/being, and science/love.

GFP Love Spell Special One Slowing Down Microclimate Eukaryotic Elegy Preservation The Secret Keeper Ivy Lines

Ground Cycles CicadalandI know your heart DrawingsSamples Making Bioplastic String

GFP Love Spell

Special One

Slowing Down

Microclimate

Eukaryotic Elegy

Preservation

The Secret Keeper

Ivy Lines

Ground Cycles

Cicadaland

I know your heart

Drawings

Samples

Making Bioplastic String