Madeleine Slavick is an American author and

photographer A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types of photographers As in other ...

whose work is notable for crossing cultural barriers.Rosie Milne, 31 Aug 2004, The Telegraph
Hong Kong's poets are crossing cultural barriers
Accessed June 26, 2014, "...Madeleine Marie Slavick was a founder of Sixth Finger Press which published bilingually - in English and Chinese. "...I try to create a sense of community which enriches me..."

Biography

Madeleine Marie Slavick was born in the United States. She has four sisters, including Susanne Slavick, Sarah Slavick, and Elin O’Hara Slavick. lived in the United States for 25 years, and in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

for 25 years, before moving to

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in 2012. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally. Reviewer Bradley Winterton in the ''

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'' described Slavick's ''Delicate Access'' as having "poise and a terse intelligence" with "nothing unbuttoned" and having a "minimalist concentration."Bradley Winterton (reviewer), Dec 05, 2004, Taipei Times
'Drink long opinions full of violets': Poet Madeleine Marie Slavick is a contributor to Taiwan magazines and the author of 'Delicate Access'
Accessed June 26, 2014, "...Everything about this book spells poise and a terse intelligence. There is nothing unbuttoned, no flavor of Walt Whitman... we find delicacy ... suggestions of intimacies ... and a minimalist concentration.." Reviewer Tammy Ho in the ''Asian Review of Books'' described her poetry as transforming small and "seemingly insignificant things" into "meaning-loaded symbols."Tammy Ho, 9 November 2004, Asian Review of Books
Delicate Access by Madeleine Marie Slavick
Accessed June 26, 2014, ".. the poet transforms some small and seemingly insignificant things—a dent in the carpet, a yellow mark on the wall—into meaning-loaded symbols..." Reviewer Michael Ingham described her poem ''Mong kok Market'', about life in

, as depicting the "instant slaughter one cannot avoid witnessing at the live meat and fish stalls."2007, Oxford University Press, Michael Ingham
Hong Kong: A Cultural History
see page 182, Accessed June 26, 2014, "..Slavick depicts the instant slaughter..." Slavick stated, "In the projects I undertake, I try to create a sense of community which enriches me, the other participants, and the audience."

Publications and exhibitions

* Finalist, Parkin Prize, New Zealand, 2022 * Essay 'The Yellow Chair' published i
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(Hong Kong), Monday Artpost (Toronto), an
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(New York), 2022 * 'Madeleine Slavick's Art of Looking' by David Mealing, i
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PhotoForum
2021 * Photography published in ''D-Photo'', New Zealand, 2020 *
Family Tree Whakapapa
' - elin o'Hara, Madeleine, Sarah and Susanne Slavick / Exhibition: Aratoi Museum, and Wallace Arts Centre, New Zealand, 2020-2021 * Essay on Family Tree Whakapapa

' by Erin Kavanagh-Hall * Writing/Photography published in various New Zealand publications: ''Art News'', ''Art New Zealand'', ''Blue Five Notebook'', ''Bonsai - Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand'', ''Broadsheet'', ''Flash Frontier'', ''Jacket'', Love in the Time of Covid, ''Poetry in Multicultural Oceania'', ''Poetry New Zealand'', ''Sweet Mammalian'', ''Takahe'', and ''Tuesday Poem'' * Photography portfolio featured in
PhotoForum
', New Zealand, with an essay by Janet Bayly, 2019 * Photography exhibited in 2019 Wairarapa Art Review, Selector: Karl Chitham * Photography published in

' (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2018) * HONG KONG SONG - solo photography exhibition, The Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, 2016; and Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Masterton, 2015 * RED - solo photography exhibition, Victoria University of Wellington, 2015 * ''FIFTY STORIES, FIFTY IMAGES'' - book of prose and photography, Hong Kong: MCCM Creations, 2012 *
GHOST RECORDS
' - with Luo Hui, published in ArtPost 2010, exhibited in Toronto, 2011 * ''SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL MIGHT HAPPEN'', book of poetry with photography by Shimao Shinzo, Tokyo: Usimaoda Books, 2010Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
Madeleine Marie Slavick
Accessed June 24, 2014 * ''CHINA VOICES'' , co-editor, book of non-fiction, Hong Kong: Oxfam, 2010 * ''MY FAVOURITE THING'', curator of exhibition in Hong Kong; co-editor of book of non-fiction, published in Beijing: Joint Publishing, 2005; and Taipei 2006 * ''DELICATE ACCESS'', solo exhibition in Hong Kong; book published with Chinese translations by Luo Hui, Hong Kong: Sixth Finger Press, 2004 * ''COLO(U)R, ebook, exhibition, postcards, from 2003 *''RECONSIDERED CROSSINGS - Representation beyond Hybridity", group exhibition, Hong Kong and Vienna, 2001-2 * ''ROUND – Poems and Photographs of Asia'', poetry and photography exhibition (Hong Kong and Cairo); book published with Barbara Baker in Hong Kong: Asia 2000 Publishers, 1998 * ''FLESH & BLOOD'' - group exhibition in USA from 1997, and in Hong Kong, 2000 * ''TOGETHER'', solo exhibition at five locations in Hong Kong and Singapore, 1996 * Solo exhibition at Hong Kong Fringe Club, 1991 * Daily blog from 2010 - 2014

References

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