ABOUT

Madelyn Shea is a makeup designer, HMU artist, practical effects artist, and wardrobe stylist whose work is seen in independent and commercial film. Since her start in 2018, Madelyn's artistry has been able to reach Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee as she worked to receive her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Cincinnati which she received in the spring of 2023.  

 

Madelyn has a deep love for makeup which includes beauty, character makeup, makeup fabrication, and prop fabrication. Her three-dimensional work unites creative storytelling and theatrical makeup fabrication to present fantastical art based in reality and empathy. Her tactile hand building, casting, molding, and painting with stone plasters, silicones, and rubbers create pieces that imitate her inner narrative dialogue regarding physical transformation. Her construction processes require significant material planning and budgeting, as well as preliminary two-dimensional design. Using clay, plaster, silicone, and rubber, she can birth unthinkable creatures, rotten bodies, beautiful devils, unattainable standards, and inevitable aging. 

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Madelyn was awarded two Outstanding Achievement awards from LA film festivals for her prosthetic makeup work on the short-film, Holy Zombie (2020), and was also honored with Director's Choice (2023) from the University of Cincinnati Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning for her thesis, Grey Escape. Aside from makeup effects, Madelyn enjoys spending any time she can in nature, lifting weights, and canoeing.

 

 

For collaborative opportunity or an interest in freelance work contact Madelyn at madelyn.shea@fuse.net.