BLOOD

The Corner Store Gallery, August 2022

Is creativity learned? Or is it genetic, is it in the blood?

BLOOD is a collaborative body of work between mother and son duo Madeline Young and Magnus Young-Holborow. This body of work was born of a creative block, some necessary multitasking and an accident. This series explores the contrast between a lifetime of art education and experience against intuition and naïveté.

Magnus Young-Holborow

“I’m painting bootiful colours of the rainbow! Red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and pink… Red aaaand white, makes PINK!” - Magnus Young-Holborow.

Magnus Young-Holborow is an emerging artist from Orange NSW. He creates artworks brimming with energy, stories and life. Magnus is completely uninhibited and lets the materials speak for themselves. Magnus comes from a long line of creatives. His mother is an artist and curator, his father a talented chef. His great-aunts are also artists and teachers and his great-grandmother was a singer. It has been said that Magnus was destined for a creative life. His career as an artist began at age 3. He is now 4 years old.

Madeline Young

“Most of my good ideas come after a significant creative block. Months and sometimes years go by in frustration. I had been wishing I could “unlearn” everything I knew and loosen up my very controlled and rigid painting style. I’m so envious of other abstract artists who seem to create beautiful, loose marks with ease. Magnus was my tool for unlearning and loosening up. He creates work without inhibition, in complete naiveté.” - Madeline Young

Madeline Young has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Newcastle. She has over 15 years experience as a practicing artist and is the Curator and Director of The Corner Store Gallery established in 2014.

Madeline is an abstract painter who creates bold, vibrant artworks with a focus on colour, composition and process. Known for her popular abstract landscapes and botanicals, this series of geometric compositions are a return to her roots as an artist. They were created with her son’s mark-making, use of repeated pattern, symbols and energy in mind. Her work is process driven from beginning to end. From canvas stretching, choice of fabric and primer, through composition creation to being meticulously painted on the surface. The colour blocking aesthetic is inspired by her days as a screen-printer.