Lucille Martin is an Australian Contemporary Artist, Educator and Environmentalist living and working on Wadjuk Country – Perth, Western Australia, who fosters a dialogue in her practice, and methodology to ignite awareness and drive meaningful action regarding the significance of current anthropogenic and climate focused events throughout the world.
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 has recently returned from The PICA-La Friche International Residency Award 2024, for her current project Phantom Histories, sponsored by French Embassy, Australia with mentorship from Le Bec en l’air. 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’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, SOFA Art Fair-New York, Canon Artlab Ptd, Ltd,Tokyo, 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.
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.
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Lucille Martin is an Australian Contemporary Artist, Educator and Environmentalist living and working on Whadjuk Country – Perth, Western Australia, who fosters a dialogue within her themes, practice, and methodology to ignite awareness and drive meaningful action regarding the significance of current anthropogenic and climate focused events throughout the world.
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.
She is recipient of four Australian Council awards including the International Tokyo studio, SOFA Art Fair-New York, Canon Artlab Ptd, Ltd -Tokyo, four Visual Arts project grants, a career fellowship from West Australia Department for the Arts and recently selection in 2023 Art Laguna Prize – Photographic selection and exhibition at The Arsenal Noord, Venice, Italy. Lucille holds Diploma’s in Graphic Design, Perth, Production Design, Australian Film TV and Radio Scholl, Sydney, Career Counselling-CTA Gold Coast, Queensland, Master of Art, UNSW, Sydney.
Lucille is currently 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.
