Madeleine Bazil is an artist, writer, and researcher interested in memory, intimacy, and the ways we navigate environments—real and imagined. Her work is shaped by open questions of memory and place, and how these questions shape identities and relationships.

Her directorial debut, Grandpa Ernest Speaks, has screened in film festivals globally and has been described as a ‘nuanced poetic representation of an intensely subjective experience’. With Holding Thumbs Productions, she is in development on OLIVE, a feature documentary about the radical life of South African feminist writer and activist Olive Schreiner.

Her poetry appears in New Contrast, Stanzas, The Seventh Wave, West Branch Magazine, Sonora Review, Identity Theory, and elsewhere, and she has contributed essays, reportage, and criticism to e.g. Pleiades, ArtThrob, Split Lip, Icarus Complex Magazine, Unum Magazine. Her research interests, on which she has published and presented, include: the archive/archival artefacts; cultural, traumatic, and postmemory; psychogeography; ecological mourning. Her photography has been exhibited in the UK, US, and South Africa. From 2022-2024, she wrote Confluences, a weekly column on arts and environment for Where The leaves Fall. Currently, as Digital Producer for Icarus Complex, she commissions and produces visual storytelling about climate change and solutions. Madeleine is available for work as a grant writer, video editor, and reviewer/critic.

This website is currently under construction. For all enquiries, please get in touch: maddybazil@gmail.com | Instagram