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, she challenges new contexts, positioning objects with modern technology and the polemic of contemporary language. It is a process that works as metaphor for the layering within the natural and spiritual order, one disrupted by a global diet of consumption and consumerism.
Announcements
Object - Australian Centre for Craft and Design exhibition in Sydney July 2010. Lucille Martin selected at Object Gallery curatorial exhibition includes 9 Australian Artists from varied mediums. Martin will present new works based on curatorial theme. This event is part of Sydney Design Week program in venues throughout CBD of Sydney.
Lace Tree curated in Fragile exhibition...at Art Piece Gallery in association with ArtsCape Exhbition. See Art Piece.com for details.
Martin's work “Lace Tree I” was selected with 24 artists for the 18th Tamworth fibre and Textile Biennale that has toured Australia since 2008. The Momentum exhibition will be at Western Plains Cultural Centre – Regional Gallery 6 February until 14 March 2010, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery & Museum - 26 March until 2 May 2010 Glasshouse Regional Gallery 5 August until 3 October 2010, Adelaide: Jam Factory Contemporary Craft and Design 29 October until 5 December 2010
Lace Tree II, was selected for SOFA International Art Fair, 2009 . Martin was awarded a Professional Development Grant from the Australia Council to participate in SOFA and take up a residency in New York.
Curator Valerie Kirk... "Artists deal with contemporary ideas and issues reflecting back to the population and projecting forward, provoking critical thinking and debate. Environmental concerns, issues of migration, place and identity, our relationship to nature and the constructed world, politics and social change are investigated in contemporary textile practice." 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".
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