MADELYNNE CORNISH
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I am a sound artist, videographer, researcher, mentor, and curator based in Bogong Village in North East Victoria, Australia.

My practice explores relationships between listening, place, and environmental change through immersive sound and audiovisual installations, field recordings, moving image, and composition.

Working across remote and regional landscapes, I investigate how climate, weather, and human activity shape both natural and built environments. Through long-term fieldwork and advanced recording technologies, I document subtle environmental transformations, revealing aspects of place that often remain unheard or unseen.

My work spans locations including the Kimberley in Western Australia, Finland, and the Victorian High Plains. Through site-responsive projects that combine multi-channel sound, environmental recordings, and video, I invite audiences to experience landscape through careful attention and deep listening.
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For me, listening is both an artistic practice and a research methodology. My work explores how attentive listening can deepen our understanding of ecological systems, biodiversity, memory, and our relationship with the more-than-human world.
Selected Highlights
  • Winner, Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards for Between Two Sites. (2024)
  • Creative Victoria Creators Fund (2022) --
  •  I Once Heard a Bird Sing
  • Finalist, Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize (2021) — Muted Landscape
  • Besen Family Foundation commission for Site & Sound: Sonic Art as Ecological Practice, McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery (2020). Borderlands is now held in the gallery's collection.

Selected Curatorial and Creative Projects
  • Kiewa River Sound Map (2026)
  • Between Two Sites (2023)
  • Bogong High Plains Sound Map (2023)
  • Notes from the Field (2021) ​ 
  • Super Field (2018)
  • Sonic Interventions (2016)



Madelynne Cornish – CV
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Undertaking fieldwork in McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery for Borderlands. 
Photo Simon Lawrie 2021
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  • Coaching
    • About
    • Coaching Journeys
  • Artist
    • About
    • Artwork >
      • Days End
      • I Once Heard a Bird Sing
      • Village Loop
      • Borderlands
      • Muted Landscape
      • Densities
      • Flood
      • Negative Space
    • Get in Touch
  • Bogong Centre for Sound Culture