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Madeleine Lord
Metal Art

Madeleine Lord started cutting steel sculpture in 1983 - in a night school adult ed. welding class at Shawsheen Vocational High School in Burlington MA. Her first public work "Revolutionary Figures" was installed at Fort Washington Park, Cambridge MA in 1987. It included four life size minutemen based on photos she took at re-enactments, and a figure of a woman representing the D.A.R. who in the late 19th century transformed the fort to a park.

In the past twenty years she has created both large public works as well as many small cut steel sculptures for homes or gardens. Her work has been included multiple summers at Chesterwood Contemporary Sculpture, and was featured in Sculpture Fest, Woodstock Vermont in 2002. In 2003 she created a 9/11 Memorial , "The Enduring American Spirit" for the town of Whitinsville MA, and was one of 30 sculptors invited to design a garden installation for the City of Chicago's Millenium Park opening celebration.

Her recent work combines found scrap metal into figures, cities, animals or clothes. A set of cut enamel steel bowties is included in a national traveling exhibit "Trashformations East" first shown at the Brockton Fuller Craft Museum in 2005.

She collaborated with artist Ruth Bragg from 1990-94 and they have a permanent work, "Seers", at the Forest Hills MA. Cemetery. She has also been included in juried exhibits at the Forest Hills site.

Recent work includes memorial portraits, and a garden installation based on children's artwork for a school in Winchester. She plans to install new work in 2007 based on Middle School student artwork from the Sewickley Academy - Sewickley PA. She is planning new work for exhibit during summer 2007 at Fruitlands Museum in Harvard MA., the Patricia Carega Gallery in Center Sandwich NH, the Millbrook Gallery in Concord NH, and Sculpture Pasture in Bedford MA.

Alumna of Sewickley Academy, Santa Catalina Monterey CA, and Smith College Northampton MA, Madeleine has an MBA from Lesley University, Cambridge MA. and works fulltime at the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston.