Artist’s Voice: Madelon Galland

Last month, an Australian colleague alerted us to Madelon Galland's STUMP Project, begun in 1999, but which had recently caught the attention of blogs all over the world. We contacted her by e-mail at her home in France, to see how the project was progressing, and to ask what else she had been working on in the meantime, and she graciously responded with a short essay that seemed a perfect candida
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Last month, an Australian colleague alerted us to Madelon Galland’s STUMP Project, which had caught the attention of Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s arts blog Articulate, and from there it was picked up by superblog Boing Boing, then art.blogging.la in Los Angeles, and finally the Wooster Collective in NYC, where the project originated in 1999.

We contacted her by e-mail at her home in France, to see how the project was progressing, and to ask what else she had been working on in the meantime, and she graciously responded with a short essay that seemed a perfect candidate for our first Artist’s Voice profile.

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Madelon Galland
About the Author
Madelon Galland began the STUMP Project in New York City in 1999, and upholstered stumps in Brooklyn, San Francisco and Rome, Italy. She also made upholstered stumps for public exhibition in New Jersey, Tennessee, and Maine. She now lives in France where she has a working studio again, and is "living in a forest of inspiration in the mountains of Cevenne National Park.