Madeleine Slavick is an author and photographer whose work is notable for crossing cultural barriers. Slavick has lived in the United States for 25 years, in Hong Kong for 25 years, and currently lives in New Zealand. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally. Reviewer Bradley Winterton in the Taipei Times described Slavick's Delicate Access as having "poise and a terse intelligence" with "nothing unbuttoned" and having 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." Reviewer Michael Ingham described her poem Mong kok Market, about life in Hong Kong, as depicting the "instant slaughter one cannot avoid witnessing at the live meat and fish stalls." 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 / Exhibitions
Photography published in D-Photo, New Zealand, 2020
Writing/Photography published in various New Zealand publications: Art News New Zealand, Art New Zealand, Blue Five Notebook, Bonsai - Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand, Broadsheet, Flash Frontier, Jacket, Poetry in Multicultural Oceania, Poetry New Zealand, Sweet Mammalian, Takahe, and Tuesday Poem
Family Tree Whakapapa - Exhibition forthcoming with three Slavick sisters, New Zealand, December 2020
Photography portfolio featured in ', New Zealand, with an essay by Janet Bayly, 2019
Photography exhibited in 2019 Wairarapa Art Review, Selector: Karl Chitham
FIFTY STORIES, FIFTY IMAGES - book of prose and photography, Hong Kong: MCCM Creations, 2012
- 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, 2010
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
COLOR, 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 ; 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
