Madison Bycroft

Photo: © Daniele Molajoli

Madison Bycroft (they/them, b. 1987 in Tarntanya, Adelaide, Australia) lives and works in Marseille and is the tutor of the FKA Critical Practices group at Artez, in Arnhem, Netherlands.

Bycroft is a graduate of the University of South Australia (2013), the MFA program at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (2016), and was a fellow at the Villa Medici in Rome (2024).

Working with video, sculpture, and performance, Madison Bycroft’s current interests extend into forms of reading and writing, expression, and refusal. The politics of illegibility and legibility are explored through language and material, asking how “sense” is framed by historical contexts, biases, and structures of power.

Bycroft is interested in how we might reimagine “reading” (in its expanded sense) and understanding, not as goal-oriented towards accomplishment, but as a relationship that hovers and makes space: opaque, errant, fractured, and floating.