Lucille Martin is an award winning Australian contemporary artist based in Perth and the Byron Bay Hinterland. Lucille works with textile, installation, recycled materials and word.
Her current work inspires awareness about humanitarian, environmental, political and women’s issues. Nationally recognised, Lucille has exhibited widely throughout Australia for over 20 years inspiring and moving audiences. Her work has received awards, commissions and overseas residencies.
Martin's beautifully created pieces resonate in their appeal. Conceptual in approach, Lucille aims to highlight and fuse the traditional craft practices of sewing and monogramming with modern technology and contemporary language. She takes her viewers on an intimate and poetic journey, providing dynamic yet sensitive engagement with her audience and the wider public.
*Announcements
Momentum, The 18th Tamworth Fibre and Textile Biennale travels to Geraldton Regional Art Gallery in December 2009. Curated by Valerie Kirk, 'Lace Tree' is part of the selected work on exhibition in Geraldton until Jan 23, 2010. See reviews....Enquire www.tamworthregionalgallery.com.au
"Buy it Now" highly commended at 2009 Prometheus Award-Judge Nick Mitzevich, director QUT Gallery-Queensland, said Martin's work "....the best painting of the whole show"
Australia Council Award to Lucille Martin to travel and particpate in SOFA New York, Art Fair 2009. Martin will also take a residency in New York and LA to further her Textile research.
Momentum, The 18th Tamworth Fibre and Textile Biennale 2008 travels to Tweed River Art Gallery, Canberra, and Wagga Wagga. See reviews.... Enquire www.tamworthregionalgallery.com.au
Reconstruction-The Genesis of Available Evidence Exhibited at Tweed River Art Gallery,
"In Reconstruction – The genesis of available evidence, the most recent body of work from Lucille Martin, she interrogates further an impressive artistic practice that has breathed and pulsed with energy since her first exhibition in Australia twenty years ago. Lucille Martin" – Beyond Bling by Courtney Kidd
Using textile, wooden ornaments and found object, the exhbition explores the association of memory and the repetitive action of applying many numbers of the same item to form vibrant sculptural installations. For further information go to gallery at www.LucilleMartin.com or email tweedart@tweed.nsw.gov.au
Lucille Martin's textile work, Inside the words of Stairway to Heaven, was selected in the popular Led Zeppelin World Tour Exhibiton,
Lucille Martin is an award winning Australian contemporary artist based in Perth and the Byron Bay Hinterland. Lucille works with textile, installation, recycled materials and word.
Her current work inspires awareness about humanitarian, environmental, political and women’s issues. Nationally recognised, Lucille has exhibited widely throughout Australia for over 20 years inspiring and moving audiences. Her work has received awards, commissions and overseas residencies.
Martin's beautifully created pieces resonate in their appeal. Conceptual in approach, Lucille aims to highlight and fuse the traditional craft practices of sewing and monogramming with modern technology and contemporary language. She takes her viewers on an intimate and poetic journey, providing dynamic yet sensitive engagement with her audience and the wider public.
*Announcements
Momentum, The 18th Tamworth Fibre and Textile Biennale travels to Geraldton Regional Art Gallery in December 2009. Curated by Valerie Kirk, 'Lace Tree' is part of the selected work on exhibition in Geraldton until Jan 23, 2010. See reviews....Enquire www.tamworthregionalgallery.com.au
"Buy it Now" highly commended at 2009 Prometheus Award-Judge Nick Mitzevich, director QUT Gallery-Queensland, said Martin's work "....the best painting of the whole show"
Australia Council Award to Lucille Martin to travel and particpate in SOFA New York, Art Fair 2009. Martin will also take a residency in New York and LA to further her Textile research.
Momentum, The 18th Tamworth Fibre and Textile Biennale 2008 travels to Tweed River Art Gallery, Canberra, and Wagga Wagga. See reviews.... Enquire www.tamworthregionalgallery.com.au
Reconstruction-The Genesis of Available Evidence Exhibited at Tweed River Art Gallery,
"In Reconstruction – The genesis of available evidence, the most recent body of work from Lucille Martin, she interrogates further an impressive artistic practice that has breathed and pulsed with energy since her first exhibition in Australia twenty years ago. Lucille Martin" – Beyond Bling by Courtney Kidd
Using textile, wooden ornaments and found object, the exhbition explores the association of memory and the repetitive action of applying many numbers of the same item to form vibrant sculptural installations. For further information go to gallery at www.LucilleMartin.com or email tweedart@tweed.nsw.gov.au
Lucille Martin's textile work, Inside the words of Stairway to Heaven, was selected in the popular Led Zeppelin World Tour Exhibiton,
