Australia Council Award to Lucille Martin, announced on
Friday 21st November 2008
Lucille Martin is an award winning Australian contemporary artist based in 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.
“Martin’s curiosity about broadly based social and cultural issues and especially the definition of female identity bring representational elements into her work that separate it from the purely formal program of minimal art.” John Stringer –Curator of The Kerry Stokes Collection 2007
Announcements
Australia Council Award to Lucille Martin to travel to SOFA New York in 2009 and further her Textile research in USA
Latest Professional Grants announced on Friday 21st November in highly competitive environment
Tamworth Biennale Opening
Lucille has been selected for Momentum, The 18th Tamworth Fibre and Textile Biennale 2008 by curator Valarie Kirk. The exhibition will open on 14th November 2008 and tour throughout Australia until 2010. Momentum public programs commence on Saturday 15th November with Lucille Martin speaking at 10am. Panel discussion at 2pm. Enquires www.tamworthregionalgaller.com.au
Reconstruction-The Genesis of Available Evidence Opening at Tweed River Art Gallery, March 2009. 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 invitation write to tweedart@tweed.nsw.gov.au or www.LucilleMartin.com
Lucille Martin textile work, Inside the words of Stairway to Heaven,
was selected in the popular Led Zeppelin World Tour Exhibiton, making its
third stop at the Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Victoria.
The Age Newspaper, Melbourne - article
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