Maddison Collymore

Maddison Collymore (Maddy) is an interdisciplinary artist and Fine Art graduate of Arts University Bournemouth (2019), where she also served as the Fine Art Graduate in Residence (2020). During her residency, Maddy developed a practice centred on immersive, socially engaged art, blending sound, performance, and interactive installations. Her work invites students to explore the intersections of art, identity, and experience through collaborative, hands-on projects.

Maddy’s current practice delves into themes of race, place, belonging, and gender, with an emphasis on collective participation. Her ancestral research and collected narratives of immigration are portrayed in otherworldly, dreamlike visuals in works such as Treacle Landscape (spudWORKS, New Forest, 2021), Azeline: A Journey (BEAF, Boscombe, 2022), and Seaweed Explorations – an ongoing, bursary-funded project on seaweed migration with B-Side Arts Festival and CODA Arts and Music Trust, Christchurch, where her studio is based.

Maddy was an active member of the Noematic Collective during her degree and graduate position, a sonic experimentalist group, through which she presented internationally. Her work includes hosting the Slades Farm Sound and Performance Residency and curating interdisciplinary projects such as In the Forest (2020) and Svevia and Swaeth, Tracks and Streams (2021), at spudWORKS in Sway, New Forest.

She is also a trustee on the spudWORKS Board, where she advocates for artists' voices. Maddy’s socially engaged practice includes facilitating workshops for Seeking Refuge, a refugee arts organisation, and collaborating with schools, festivals, and community groups, including elderly and vulnerable people. Her experience in curating and managing events with Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe and B-Side Arts Festival has fostered an enduring commitment to creating collective experiences that both inspire and challenge.