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Biography
Like the work of many international artists working in multi-mediums, Lucille Martin transforms varieties of traditional and unusual mediums to function on multiple levels. Lucille Martin is based in Australia.

Photography by Jeff Dawson
Selected Highlights
BLIP 2013 - 5th Biennale International du lin de Portneuf, Quebec, Canada SOFA 2012 - Australia Council Award USA, Italy SOFA 2009 - Australia Council Award to attend SOFA New York 2009 -Residency in USA The Prometheus Art Prize- 2009- Highly Commended Judge Nick Mitzevich-Director Gallery - Queensland University of Technology- Momentum-18th Tamworth Fibre & Textile Biennale, NSW 2008. Curator Valerie Kirk. Travelling throughout Australia 2008-2010 Led Zepplin Exhibition S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 2008 Mornington Peninsular, Regional Gallery, Victoria, 2008 Lismore Regional Gallery, 2007– Curator/Director: Steven Alderton Naturally Selected Solo Exhibition- Lismore Regional Gallery 2007/2008 Threaded Connections Conceptual Artist/Designer/Co-ordinator Major Installation Lismore Embroidery Guild Threaded Connections Video – Producer, Conceptual Artist Led Zeppelin World Tour Exhibition Lismore Regional Gallery 2007 Chrysalis Curatorial Exhibition, Melitta Firth, Lismore Regional Art Gallery,. NSW Australia 2006 Awarded NSW Ministry for Arts Residency, The Gunnery 2005, Sydney Australia Winner, Border Art Prize Collateral Damage Tweed River Art Gallery 2005 12/10 Commemorative Exhibition - Berapa Artwork. Fundraiser with Dr Fiona Hall, For Bali Burns Unit, Sir Claude Hotchin Art Gallery, Perth 2004 Solo Exhibition Berapa Exhibition & Publication, Fox Galleries, Brisbane, Australia 2003 Awarded Creative Fellowship, Ministry for the Arts 1996 Awarded Creative Fellowship Residency with the Jardnu Yawru Aboriginal Women's Group North Western Australia, 1996 Selected Artist, Expose:Three Stories from Tokyo, Festival of Perth Program, 1995 International Women's Year Representative, 1995. Awarded Australia Council Visual Arts Grant, Tokyo Residency 1994
Awards
2012 Australia Council-Professional Development Award –New York, Italy
2009 Australia Council-Professional Development Award –Selected for SOFA-New York 2009 Residency New York, Los Angeles 2009 Prometheus Visual Art Biennale Award – Highly Commended. Merrimac, Queensland 2005 Prometheus Visual Art Award Biennale – Highly Commended. Merrimac, Queensland 2005 NSW Ministry for Arts, Awarded Residency. The Gunnery 2005, Sydney Australia 2004 Winner Border Art Prize Collateral Damage ,Tweed River ArtGallery 1996 Western Australia Creative Fellowship Award . Ministry for the Arts, Western Australia 1994 Australia Council Visual Arts Board- Overseas Studio Residency, Tokyo, Japan 1994 Canon ArtLab Award. Artist in Residence at Canon, Tokyo, Japan 1990 Perth Festival Fringe - Western Australian Department for the Arts -Project Grant. 1988 Australia Council Visual Arts Board - Project Grant. Sydney Australia
Education
1992 Master of Arts - University Of New South Wales College Of Fine Arts Sydney, Australia 1987 Diploma Production Design-Australian Film Television & Radio School, Sydney, Australia 1980 Diploma Design/Fine Art - James Street Technical College, Perth Western Australia Freelance Designer, Art Director - Advertising and Magazine Publications
Group Exhibitions
2011 AngelHair, Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth Western Australia Curator:Kevin Johnson 2011 Japonisme Stella Downer Gallery Sydney Curator:Sarah Vandepeer 2010 Blue Object Gallery, Sydney Curator: Kylie Johnston 2009 18th Fibre & Textile Biennal, Tamworth NSW Australia, Touring Australia 2007 Led Zeppelin World Tour Exhibition, May 2008 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Victoria January 2008 EH Ervin Gallery Sydney April 2007 Lismore Regional Gallery, Australia 2007 Prometheus Visual Arts Award 2006 Alice Art Prize – Selected Award Exhibition 2006 Chrysalis- Lismore Regional Art Gallery New South Wales, Australia 2006 20x, C.A.S.E Gallery, Mullumbimby, New South Wales, Australia 2006 Oceans 11 Lismore Regional Art Gallery New South Wales, Australia 2005 Arts cape Sculpture Award Exhibition – Cape Byron Bay 2005 Prometheus Visual Arts Award - Inaugural Award Exhibition 2004 Berapa Exhibition, 2nd Anniversary Tweed River Art Gallery 2002 Caldera - Lismore Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia 1998 Material Perfection - Curator John Stringer –Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth WA 1996/7 Domestic Disturbance MIMA, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne -Touring Program- Real to Reel - Perth Institute of Contemporary Art & Art On the Move Touring Program Curator: Poala Anselmi ,Art on the Move. Perth, Western Australia 1995 Generation - Curator John Stringer - Delaney Galleries Perth, Western Australia 1992 Young Romantics - Art Gallery Of Western Australia 1989 Inside the Greenhouse - The Tin Sheds, Sydney. Australia
Solo Exhibitions
2009 Reconstruction : Solo Exhibition, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah NSW 2007 Naturally Selected Solo Exhibition Lismore Regional Gallery Lismore NSW 2007/08 2004 Berapa - Installation/Selected works Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW 2003 Berapa - Installation/Solo Exhibition, Fox Galleries, Brisbane 2002 Caldera - Textile /Printed Installation, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales 1996 One Country, Many Voices, Delaney Galleries, Perth, Western Australia. 1995 Expose: Three Stories from Tokyo. Part I –III, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, WA 1994 Experimenta, MIMA Metaphors for Memory Part IV - Paradox of Ordering, National Gallery of Victoria 1994 Hoop- A Multi-media/Medium Installation Series, Delaney Galleries, Perth, Western Australia 1993 Metaphors for Memory Part IV - A Paradox of Ordering, Art & Technology Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria National Masters Exhibition, Metaphors For Memory - Part IV - A Paradox of Ordering Perth Institute Of Contemporary Art, Western Australia 1992 Metaphors for Memory Part IV - A Paradox of Ordering, & Sisters Part III, Third International Symposium For Electronic Art, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia. 1992 Androgyny, Perth Galleries, Perth, Western Australia 1990 Other Worlds, Perth Galleries, Perth Western Australia New Worlds, Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1990 Origins - A Multi-Cultural Installation. The Performance Space, Sydney Myopia - An Environmental Installation and Soundscape, The Perth Fringe Festival, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia, Origins - A Multi-Cultural Installation Soundscape, Perth Institute Of Contemporary Art, Perth, Western Australia 1986 Blind Spots, King St Studios, Sydney, Australia
Collections
Artbank AGWA - The Art Gallery of Western Australia The Kerry Stokes Collection, Australia Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery - University of Western Australia Lismore Regional Gallery The Cruthers Collection, WA & Private Collections.
Selected Reviews / Publications
2007 Rosemary Sorrenson, The Australian Newspaper Arts Section ”Heaven, After All These Years” April 5th 2007 2006 Melitta Firth, Chrysalis, The Emergence of Northern Rivers Artists, Arts Northern Rivers 2004 Christina Khumari, The Arts: Creating jobs that people value. Byron Shire Echo 3.8.04 2003 Lucille Martin & Michael Fox: Berapa & Retrospective Works, Fox Galleries, 2003 Debra Aldred, Bali’s threads of war, The Courier Mail, Arts Section 2002 Australian Coastal Style Magazine, April, “The Life of Byron” Artists Profile, Alix Johnson, 2001 Material Perfection Minimal Art and its Aftermath, Publication by Curator John Stringer, Kerry Stokes Collection Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia 2001 Nikki Miller, Gotham Times Ten - Ten Years of Gotham Studios ’88-98, Picton Press pg 36 1995 Paola Anselmi, Expose - Three Stories From Tokyo, Catalogue, Australia Council Nadine Amardio, New Visions, New Perspectives - Profile of 20 contemporary Australian Women Artists, Craftsman House Myer Festival of Perth Critics Conference, The West Australian Newspaper Karen Pakula, Arts Profile HQ Magazine, September 95 1994 Dr.David Bromfield, Images Reflect the Fragments of Life, The West Australian Newspaper 1993 Ron Banks, Video films add to artists range, The West Australian - Arts Section David Bromfield - Metaphors for Memory, The West Australian Newspaper 1993 Nadine Amardio, 12 Australian Artists, Craftsman House 1992 Neville Drury, “New Art 7- Profiling Contemporary Australian Artists, Craftsman House 1992 Oz Arts Magazine “Sound and Images” 1990 David Bromfield, Other Worlds, The West Australian Arts Section 1989 David Bromfield, Origins, The West Australian Newspaper Arts Section Gotham Goes Shopping” Praxis M. Arts Magazine“ 1988 Eclectic- Follow Me Magazine
Selected Media
2008 FEHVA Byron Bay – Forum panelist –Threaded connections 2005 FEHVA Byron Bay – Forum panelist – Socially Conscious Artists 2003 Profile of Artist and Berapa Exhibition, Sunday Arts Program, ABC 1995 Festival of Perth Critics Conference, Radio Interviews - RTR-FM, ABC Radio, 6WF Television, Channel 9 -Perth, ABC-TV 1990 Radio JJJ , Tony Biggs, Myopia and Origins, Radio JJJ , Gayle Austin, Art Attack-Myopia Radio JJJ - Art Attack National - Myopia, ABC National , Martin Portus & Robyn Johnston, Arts Review Myopia Ministry of Education, Documentary, Myopia
Travel
2009 - USA, New York, Los Angeles 2008 – New Zealand, South Region 2006 – Kakadu, N.T. Australia 2005 – Alice Springs, Australia 2004 – Vietnam, Hong Kong 2002 – Bali - Residency 1996 – North Western Australia - Residency 1994 – Tokyo - Residency 1992 - Bali 1990 – Europe, India, USA – Residency Taos 1988 - Japan 1986 – Residencies in Bali & Java 1984 – South Africa, Israel, Egypt, Greece. Lived in London and New York.
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