Madeline Curley b. 1976

Biography
LANGUAGE: PITJANTJATJARA
REGION: KALTJITI, APY LANDS, S.A. 

Madeline Curley grew up in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, a vast region in the north-west of South Australia into the Northern Territory, where a number of Indigenous communities are located. Madeline attended school in the remote community of Kaltjiti (formerly Fregon) and later Woodville High in Adelaide. Madeline is the daughter of renowned artist, Imitjala Curley; her sister Maria and Meredith Curley are also talented artists.

 

Madeline is a self-taught artist and has developed a fluid and sweeping style of painting to illustrate aspects of the famous Seven Sisters Dreaming story, a huge and significant songline that intersects the entire continent. Madeline paints a part of the story where the sisters are travelling across the expansive arid country, walking, trying to escape from the pursuing man, Nyiru. The roundels on the canvas represent the waterholes and rockholes where the sisters camped, and the overlay of finely dotted winding lines are the paths walked by the women and the ever-changing topography that they pass through, guiding and protecting each other.


Madeline is a widely exhibited artist, and in 2019 her artwork was projected onto the Sydney Opera House sails as part of the 'Badu Gili' program.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley, 2025, acrylic on linen, 90 x 120 cm
    Madeline Curley
    Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley, 2025
    90 x 119 cm
    35 3/8 x 46 7/8 inches
    acrylic on linen
    Madeline Curley, Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley, 2025
    $ 3,850.00
  • Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley, 2025
    Madeline Curley
    Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley, 2025
    60 x 110 cm
    23 5/8 x 43 1/4 inches
    acrylic on linen
    Madeline Curley, Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley, 2025
    $ 1,850.00
  • Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley, 2025
    Madeline Curley
    Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley, 2025
    45 x 60 cm
    17 3/4 x 23 5/8 inches
    acrylic on linen
    Madeline Curley, Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley, 2025
    $ 660.00
  • Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley, 2025
    Madeline Curley
    Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley, 2025
    60 x 60 cm
    23 5/8 x 23 5/8 inches
    acrylic on linen
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  • Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley, 2024, acrylic on linen,
    Madeline Curley
    Seven Sisters Dreaming (Rockholes) by Madeline Curley, 2024
    67 x 90 cm
    26 3/8 x 35 3/8 inches
    acrylic on linen
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  • Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley
    Madeline Curley
    Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley, 2024
    120 x 60 cm
    47 1/4 x 23 5/8 inches
    acrylic on linen
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  • Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley
    Madeline Curley
    Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley, 2024
    120 x 60 cm
    47 1/4 x 23 5/8 inches
    acrylic on linen
    Madeline Curley, Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley, 2024
    $ 1,650.00
  • Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley
    Madeline Curley
    Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley, 2024
    67 x 90 cm
    26 3/8 x 35 3/8 inches
    acrylic on linen
    Sold
  • Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley
    Madeline Curley
    Seven Sisters Dreaming (Rockholes) by Madeline Curley, 2022
    90 x 150 cm
    35 3/8 x 59 inches
    acrylic on linen
    Madeline Curley, Seven Sisters Dreaming (Rockholes) by Madeline Curley, 2022
    $ 4,900.00
  • Seven Sisters Dreaming by Madeline Curley
    Madeline Curley
    Seven Sisters Dreaming (Rockholes) by Madeline Curley, 2022
    90 x 149 cm
    35 3/8 x 58 5/8 inches
    acrylic on linen
    Madeline Curley, Seven Sisters Dreaming (Rockholes) by Madeline Curley, 2022
    $ 4,900.00
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