About

CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN MULTI & MIXED-MEDIA VISUAL ARTIST, DESIGNER & EDUCATOR

Biography
Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch, born 1956, Ararat, Victoria, Australia, grew up somewhat resilient and self-directed being the youngest of five children and only daughter, on an isolated self-sufficient mixed-farm near Hall’s Gap, in the beautiful Grampians of Western Victoria. Between formal studies of a Dip.Art & Design and Grad.Dip. in (Sec.) Education, Madsen-Pietsch worked and travelled interstate gaining life experiences.

She settled in Innisfail, Far North Queensland 1985 to teach and married in that same year to Clifford Madsen, an Indigenous artist and member of the North Qld. rainforest people of the Kuku Yalangi language group. They have three children and two grandchildren. Parallel to a long art teaching career, raising a family, and now current owner/operater of an art retail business, is Madsen-Pietsch’s continual commitment to developing her professional creative art practice.

She has numerous drawing, painting, printmaking, fibre and sculpture awards, regional exhibition and workshop achievements behind her. Her selected solo exhibition ‘Elevating the Spirit’ shown at Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld 2007, has also been successfully selected to show in the Main Space, Umbrella Studio, Contemporary Arts, Townsville, Qld, 2009 April 24 – May 31.

Formal qualifications: 2003 Certificate 4 in Public Art,Tropical North Queensland TAFE, Cairns, Qld; 1982 Graduate Diploma in (Secondary) Education, Bendigo CAE, Vic. Majors: Art & Craft (D); 1977 Diploma in Art & Design, Deakin University Geelong Vic.; 1974 TOP Tertiary Orientated Program (equivalent Yr 12) 9 Subjects (8 x Art) Stawell Technical School, Vic.; 1973 HSC Art Luther College, Croydon, Melbourne.