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

• 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

Collections

Artbank; 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.

 Awards

2005      NSW Ministry for Arts, Awarded Residency. The Gunnery 2005, Sydney Australia

2004     Winner Border Art Prize “ Collateral Damage “ Gold Coast Art Gallery, Tweed River Art Gallery

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

1996     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

Travel / Influences

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.

Selected  Group Exhibitions

2007        Led Zeppelin World Tour Exhibition, various venues

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

                Prometheus Visual Arts Award - Inaugural Award Exhibition

2004        Berapa Exhibition, 2^nd 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

2007       Naturally Selected, Lismore Regional Gallery, New South Wales Australia

2004       Berapa -  Installation/Selected works, Tweed River Art Gallery, New South Wales

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, NGV

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,

              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, 3rd

             International Symposium of 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, WA          

  1989    Blind Spots, King St Studios, Sydney, Australia

Video/ Video Installation

2007     Threaded Connections – Producer, Conceptual Artist/Designer

1995      Expose: Three Stories from Tokyo. Part I –Director/Designer, Sound-Peter Westheimer

1994      Experimenta, MIMA  Metaphors for Memory Part IV - Paradox of Ordering, Director/Designer

Selected Reviews / Publications

2007    Rosemary Sorrenson, The Australian Newspaper Arts Section

            ”Heaven, After All These Years” April 5^th 2007

2006    Melitta Firth, Chrysalis, The Emergence of Northern Rivers Artists, Arts Northern Rivers, pg 6

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    Alix Johnson, “The Life of Byron”  Artists Profile,. Australian Coastal Style Magazine, Mar/April

2001Material Perfection Minimal Art and its Aftermath. Publication by Curator John Stringer,

       Kerry Stokes Collection

            Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia

            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