Lucille Martin, is a Contemporary Australian Photographer & Interdisciplinary Artist working across Boorloo & Gadigal lands (Perth/Sydney) who fosters an interest in the ecology of arts practice and the natural environment to ignite awareness regarding significant anthropogenic and climate associated issues.
In 2024, Lucille was awarded The Inaugural PICA -Marseille International Residency and Photobook Award, sponsored by the French Embassy in Australia, PICA-The Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, DLGSC-Dept of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industry-West Australia, La Friche le Belle de Mai, and Le Bec en’lair, based on her autobiographical project, Phantom History.
Her artwork touches on the impact of human activity in respect to the planet’s climate and ecosystems, transgressing land, and planetary boundaries. She has an innate curiosity and passion for experimentation with materials, tools and curatorial engagement which allow her to convey a form of storytelling in her work, across a broad multi-disciplinary practice of documentary photography, iPhoneography, textiles, drawing, lithographic transfer, and hand making mediums.
Lucille’s work is widely exhibited in solo, group & curatorial programs, commissions, and residencies in Australia and overseas and is held in public and private collections including, Australian Parliament House, Canberra and Art Gallery of Western Australia. Recipient of four Australian Council awards including the International Tokyo studio, Canon Artlab Ptd. Ltd. Tokyo, SOFA Art Fair-New York, Visual Arts project grants and career fellowship from West Australia Department for the Arts and recent selection in 2023 Art Laguna Prize – Photographic selection and exhibition at The Arsenal Noord, Venice, Italy. Lucille was PhD provisional at ECU, Scholarship, a Master of Art, UNSW, Sydney, Dip/Cert Graphic Design, Perth, Production Design, AFTRS, Sydney, Personal & Career Coaching-CTA, Q. PhD Provisional work and methodology of Documentary Observational capture in Self-Portraiture with iPhoneography.
Lucille is current committee member of CLIMARTE, Australia, a non for profit organization of Arts professionals, activists and academics, working on Climate Emergency and Civil Rights themes through the power of socially engaged Arts practice to inspire the public and raise awareness about the causes and solutions for Climate Emergency while elevating the role of the Arts and creative workers as powerful change makers in society.
Follow socials at LucilleMartinArtist for forthcoming news of her exhibition and Photobook documenting her personal story about identity, adoption and historic slavery-UK/Australia.
Lucille Martin, is a Contemporary Australian Photo-Based Interdisciplinary Artist working across Boorloo & Gadigal lands (Perth/Sydney) who fosters an interest in the ecology of arts practice and the natural environment to ignite awareness regarding significant anthropogenic and climate associated issues.
In 2024, Lucille was awarded The Inaugural PICA -Marseille International Residency and Photobook Award, sponsored by the French Embassy in Australia, PICA-The Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, DLGSC-Dept of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industry-West Australia, La Friche le Belle de Mai, and Le Bec en’lair, based on her autobiographical project, Phantom History.
Her artwork touches on the impact of human activity in respect to the planet’s climate and ecosystems, transgressing land, and planetary boundaries. She has an innate curiosity and passion for experimentation with materials, tools and curatorial engagement which allow her to convey a form of storytelling in her work, across a broad multi-disciplinary practice of documentary photography, iPhoneography, textiles, drawing, lithographic transfer, and hand making mediums.
Lucille’s work is widely exhibited in solo, group & curatorial programs, commissions, and residencies in Australia and overseas and is held in public and private collections including, Australian Parliament House, Canberra and Art Gallery of Western Australia. Recipient of four Australian Council awards including the International Tokyo studio, Canon Artlab Ptd. Ltd. Tokyo, SOFA Art Fair-New York, Visual Arts project grants and career fellowship from West Australia Department for the Arts and recent selection in 2023 Art Laguna Prize – Photographic selection and exhibition at The Arsenal Noord, Venice, Italy. Lucille was PhD provisional at ECU, Scholarship, a Master of Art, UNSW, Sydney, Dip/Cert Graphic Design, Perth, Production Design, AFTRS, Sydney, Personal & Career Coaching-CTA, Q. PhD Provisional work and methodology of Documentary Observational capture in Self-Portraiture with iPhoneography.
Lucille is current committee member of CLIMARTE, Australia, a non for profit organization of Arts professionals, activists and academics, working on Climate Emergency and Civil Rights themes through the power of socially engaged Arts practice to inspire the public and raise awareness about the causes and solutions for Climate Emergency while elevating the role of the Arts and creative workers as powerful change makers in society.
Follow socials at LucilleMartinArtist for forthcoming news of her exhibition and Photobook documenting her personal story about identity, adoption and historic slavery-UK/Australia.
