Madeleine Child studied ceramics in New Zealand and London where she received a BA from Camberwell School of Art, MA from the Royal College of Art, and Advanced Studies Central Saint Martins College of Art.
Madeleine has received awards in prestigious competitions such as the Wallace Art Awards, National Contemporary Art Award, Portage Ceramics Awards, Norsewear Art Awards, Waiheke Ceramic Awards, Gold Coast International Ceramics Art Awards, and Sidney Myer International Ceramics Awards. Her work features in private and public collections internationally including the Frans Hals Museum in the Netherlands, Shepparton Art Gallery in Australia, the Dowse in Lower Hutt, the Otago Museum and the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Emmanuel Cooper included Child in his 2000 publication Ten Thousand Years of Pottery distributed by the British Museum Press.