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| | | | | | Mandy Martin is a practicing artist who has held numerous exhibitions in Australia, Mexico and the USA. She has exhibited widely in curated exhibitions in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, USA, and Italy. Her works are in many public and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia and major state galleries and collections. In the USA she is represented in the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and many private collections. She lives in the Cowra region, New South Wales, Australia. | | | | | 1972-75 | Studied at the South Australian School of Art, Adelaide | | 1978-03 | Lecturer at the School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra | | 2003-07 | Fellow of Australian National University, Canberra | | 2008 | Adjunct Professor Fenner School of Environmenrt and Society, Australian National University, Canberra | | | |
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2011 | 'Wanderers in the Desert of the Real 2011', Australian Galleries, Sydney | | 2009 | 'Mandy Martin and Mangkaja Artists painting Fitzroy River Valley Country 2007-2009', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Wanderers in the Desert of the Real', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | Mandy Martin Painting 1981-2009, Survey exhibition, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
| | 2008 | 'Wanderers in the Desert of the Real', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
| | 2006 | 'Salvadoresque', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
| | 'Absence and Presence', Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
| | 2005 | 'Strata: Desert of the Mind’s Eye - An exhibition of Ikuntji artists and Mandy Martin', Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT
| | 2004 | 'Absence and Presence', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
| | 2003 | 'Bridging the Wild: Salvator Rosa Series V', Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
| | 'Salvator Rosa Series IV', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
| | 2002 | 'Peripecia: The Salvator Rosa series', Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University, Canberra
| | 2001 | 'Inflows: the Channel Country', Touring exhibition: Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra; Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW; Albury Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, QLD
| | 'Salvator Rosa Series', Casa de la Primera Imprenta de America, Festival Centro Historico Mexico City; Casa Gene Byron, Festival Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico
| | 2000 | 'Salvator Rosa Series III', Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1999 | 'Watersheds: the Paroo to the Warrego', Touring exhibition: Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, VIC; Mildura Arts Centre, VIC; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
| | 1997 | 'Tracts: Back O’Bourke', Touring exhibition: Nolan Gallery, Canberra; Moree Regional Gallery, NSW; Broken Hill City Art Gallery, NSW; Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Albury Regional Art Centre, NSW
| | Solo Exhibitions in Australia and America 1977-1999 including:
| | 1990 | 1994, 1998, 1999 - Austral Gallery, St.Louis, USA
| | 1992, 1996, 1998, - Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
| | Missouri Botanical Gallery, St Louis, USA | | 1988 | 1991, 1992, - Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
| | 1986 | 1988, 1992 - Micheal Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
| | 1989, 1991 - Anima Gallery, Adelaide
| | 1974 | 1983, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999 - Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
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Group Exhibitions | | | 2012 | En pleinair Winds of Change Weereewa Exhibition, Goulburn Regional Gallery, Goulburn, NSW
| | 2011 | 'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
| | 'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
| | 2010 | Desert Channels: the impulse to conserve, Hugh Sawry Gallery, Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame, Longreach, QLD
| | Contemporary Australian Drawing, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
| | Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW
| | Countryscapes 2010, The Glasshouse Arts Conference and Entertainment Centre, Port Macquarie, NSW
| | Canberra and Beyond, Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | Stick it! Collage in Australian Art, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | Bushfire Australia, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville, VIC
| | Warwick Art Gallery, Warwick, QLD
| | University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, QLD
| | Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum, Gladstone, QLD
| | 2009 | 'Summer Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
| | Twelve Degrees of Latitude Regional Gallery and University Art Collections, Touring exhibition, QLD
| | 2008 | Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW
| | 'The Ecologies Project', Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne. Curated by Geraldine Barlow and Dr Kyla McFarlane
| | 'The Kilgour Prize', Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
| | 'Solander Survey', Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | 'The John McCaughey Memorial Prize 50 Years', Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | 2007 | Artists’ Inc: Printmaking from the Warrnambool Art Gallery Collection, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
| | 'Winter Solace: Simply Red', Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW
| | 'Glimpse: Inside Gold Coast City Art Gallery’s Collection', Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD
| | Beyond Hill End, Cudgegong Gallery, Gulgong, NSW
| | '(collected) women', Wollongong City Gallery, NSW
| | Solander Survey, Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | 2006 | The Kilgour Prize, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
| | 'Philanthropy Rules!', Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange, NSW
| | 'The Wynne Prize', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 2005 | 'Whatever happened to the revolution?', Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC
| | 'Watermarks'. Reflections on the water history and culture of Orange and district Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, NSW
| | 'Making a Place for herself'. Women’s experiences of landscapes and national parks, Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney and touring National Park visitor centers throughout NSW in 2006 and 2007
| | 'Landscape Now'. Thirty- Six Artists interpret the landscape. Solander Gallery, Canberra
| | 2004 | '2004 National Works on Paper', Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC
| | 'Fleurieu Art Prize', Adelaide, SA
| | 'Fleurieu Heritage Art Exhibition', Adelaide, SA
| | 'Alice Springs Art Prize', Alice Springs, NT
| | 'Landmarks', Cowra Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW
| | 2003 | 'Land$cape : Gold & Water', Touring exhibition: Cowra Art Gallery, NSW; Foyer Gallery, School of Art Australian National University, Canberra; Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
| | 2002 | 'Imaging Identity and Place', Touring exhibition: QUT Art Museum, Brisbane; Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney; Orange Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC; Albury Art Gallery, NSW; Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Sydney; Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD; Tamworth City Gallery, QLD
| | '20', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
| | 'Factor Of Ten. A Future Worth Having', School of Art Gallery, National Institute of the Arts, Australian National University, Canberra
| | 'Sublime. 25 years of the Wesfarmers Collection,' Touring exhibition: Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, WA; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; City Hall Gallery, Brisbane; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; Cairns Regional Art Gallery, QLD; Bendigo Museum and Art Gallery, VIC; New England Regional Gallery, NSW
| | 'Landscapes', Cowra Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW
| | 'Geelong Contemporary Art Prize', Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC
| | 'Australian Art in the National Gallery', National Gallery of Australia', Canberra
| | 'Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | 2001 | 'Landscape as Metaphor', Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery, QLD; Rockhampton Regional Art Gallery, QLD Bond University, QLD
| | 'Imaging Identity and Place', Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW; QUT Art Museum, Brisbane; Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney; Orange Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC; Albury Art Gallery, NSW; Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Sydney; Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD; Tamworth, NSW
| | 'Reflecting Canberra', Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
| | 'Auriferous. The Gold Project', Bathurst Regional Gallery, Bathurst, NSW
| | 'First Showing', Cowra Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW
| | 'Landscape as Metaphor', Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery, QLD; Rockhampton Art Gallery, QLD; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, QLD; Bond University, QLD
| | 'Orbit: Artists and Designers from South Australia', University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide
| | 'Federation! But Who Makes a Nation?', Touring exhibition: Tweed River Regional Gallery, NSW; Albury Regional Arts Centre, NSW; Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Broken Hill City Art Gallery, NSW; University of Technology Sydney Gallery, Sydney
| | 'Alchemy. Cadia Hill Gold Mine Art Project', Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, NSW
| | 2000 | 'Federation. Australian Art and Society 1901-2001', Touring exhibition: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, QLD; Newcastle Regional Gallery, NSW; Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, TAS
| | 'Central Queensland Art Purchase', Rockhampton Art Gallery, South Rockhampton, QLD
| | 'Shell Australia Collection Contemporary Art', Melbourne and Sydney
| | 'First Showing', Cowra Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW
| | Prelude: Selections from the Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
| | 'A Thousand Colours: Visual Art for Green ANU', School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra
| | Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901-2001, Touring exhibition: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Benalla Art Gallery, VIC; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, QLD; Newcastle Regional Gallery, NSW; Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, TAS
| | 'Decade', Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW
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BibliographySELECTED IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS
Allen, Cross-Currents In Contemporary Australian Art, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2001 Environment, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra, 1997 Bonyhady, T, Griffiths, T; Words for Country, Landscape and Language in Australia, USW Press, Sydney, 2002 Cramer, Landforms in Contemporary Art, Integrated Education Ltd. Celebrate Art Book Resource, Whangaparaoa, New Zealand, 2008 Curthoys, A, McGrath, A; Writing Hiistories. Imagination and Narration, Monash Publications History, Melbourne, 2000 Dickman, C, Lunney, D, Burgin, S; Animals of Arid Australia. Out on their Own?, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007 Federation! But who makes the nation? (exhibition catalogue), Museum & Galleries Foundation of New South wales, Woolomooloo, 2001 Fox, W; Aereality: essays on the world from above , Berkley, Australia, 2009 Gray, A; Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2002 Green, E, North, I, Rowan, M; Orbit (exhibition catalogue), University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide, 2001 Griffiths, T; "Meanjin. Essaying the Truth", Haunted, vol.59, no. 1, Australia, 2000 Haynes, P; "Mandy Martin: From Word and Place", Salvator Rosa Series (exhibition catalogue), Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, 1998 Haynes, P; "Mandy Martin: From Word and Place II", Salvator Rosa Series II (exhibition catalgue), Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 1998 Haynes, P; "Mandy Martin: From Word to Place", Salvator Rosa Series III, (exhibition catalogue), Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, 2000 Haynes, P; "Tom Roberts and Mandy Martin: From the Big Picture to the Red Ochre Cove", Headen, D; Makers of Miracles. The Cast of the Federation Story, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000 Haynes, P; "Mandy Martin: Ongoing Investigations", Inflows: The Channel Country (exhibition catalogue), Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, 2001 Haynes, R; Seeking the Centre, Literature and Art, Cambridge University Press, Sydney, 1998 Herausgegeben Von R; W, Köhler...hoch gerühmt, fast vergessen, neu gehessen...Der italienische Maler and poet Salvator Rosa, Studien zur Neubertung. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007 IMPRINT, Summer 2007, vol.41, no.4, p.6 Judd, C, Lawson, A; Auriferous, The Gold Project (exhibition catalogue) Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 2001 Lynch, T; "Literature in the Arid Zone", The Littoral Zone, Australian Contex and their Writers, Rodopi Press, Amsterdam and New York, 2007, p. 70-92 Malouf, D, Serer, N; Peripecia; the Salvador Rosa Series (exhibition catalogue), Australian National University Canberra, 2002 Muddiman, S; Imaging, Identity and Place, (exhibition catalogue), Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW, 2001 Read, P; Belonging, Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2000 Regal, W, Köhler; (Hrsg)...hochgerühmt, fast vergessen, neu gesehen...Der italienische Maler Studien zur Neubewetung, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2007 Server, N; "The Art of Mandy Martin", Primera Casa de Imprenta de los Americas, Mexico City, Mexico, March 2001 Sisley, A, Davidson, D; Alchemy, the Cadia Gold Mine Art Project (exhibition catalogue), Orange Regional Gallery, NSW, 2002 St. James Guide to Contemporary Women Artists, St,. James Press, Massachusetts, 1998 Tsokhas, K; Making a Nation State: Cultural Identity, Economic Nationalism & Sexuality in Australian History, Monash University Press, Melbounre, 2001
SELECTED WRITINGS BY THE ARTIST 1996-2011
Fitzhardinge, G, Griffiths, T, Martin, M; Watersheads: the Paroo to the Warrego, Goanna Press, Canberra, 1999 Griffiths, T, Martin, M; Watersheads: the Paroo to the Warrego, Mandy Martin, Canberra, 1998 Martin, M; "A life in Service", Portrait 18, national Portrait gallery, canberra, 2005-06 Martin, M, Sinclair, P; Tracts Back O'Bourke (exhibition catalogue), Canberra, 1997 Martin, M; "Letter to Nick Jose", The Oxford Book of Australian Letters, The Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1997 Martin, M; "Watersheds: the Paroo to the Warrego", People and rangelands: proceedings of the VIth International Rangeland congress, VI International Rangeland Congress Inc, Australia, 1999 Martin, M; This El Dorado of pure recognition and desertof pure non - recognition", Vision of Future Landscapes Proceedinggs of 1999 Australian Academy of Science Fenner Conference on the Environment, 2-5 May 1999. Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra, 1999 Martin, M; "Introduction", Inflows: the Channel Country (exhibition catalogue), Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, 2001 Martin, M; "They have a Faith to Move Mountains", Auriferous. The Gold Project (exhibition catalogue), Bathurst regional Art Gallery, April- June 2001 Martin, M; "Artist Statement", Peripecia: the Salvator Rosa Series (exhibition catalogue), The Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, 2002 Martin, M; Land$cape: Gold & Water (exhibition catalogue), Goanna Press, Canberra, 2003 Martin, M, Ryan, S; The Lachlan Blue- Gold, 2004 (exhibition catalogue), 2004 Martin, M, Robin, L, Smith, M; Strata: Deserts Past Present and Future. An environmental project about significant cultural place, Goanna Press, Canberra, 2005 Martin, M; "Absence and Presence" Fresh Water. New Perspectoves on water in Australia, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2007 Robin, L, Dickman, C, Martin, M; Desert Channels: the impulse to conserve, CSRIO Melbourne, 2010 CollectionsSELECTED MAJOR COLLECTIONS Artbank, Sydney Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Australian Council, Sydney Australian National University Art Collection, Canberra Australian War Memorial, Canberra Banyule Art Collection, Ivanhoe, VIC Bathhurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC Broken Hill Regional Gallery, Broken Hill, NSW Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra Central Queensland University, QLD Cowra Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW Emrald Shire, QLD Fremantle Art Gallery, Fremantle, WA Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum, Gladstone, QLD Gold Coast College, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Gold Coast, QLD Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, QLD Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne LaTrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell, VIC Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA Michell Endownment, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW New England Regional Arts Museum, Armidale, NSW Parliment House Collection, Canberra Phillip Institute, Melbourne Print Council of Australia, Melbourne Print Council of Western Australia, Perth Queensland University odf Technology, Brisbane Queen Victoria Museum and Gallery, Launceston Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, SA RMIT University collection, Melbourne Solomon R Guggenheim Museum New York, USA Tamworth City Art Gallery, Tamworth, NSW University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane University of Canberra, Canberra University of Melbourne Art collection, Melbourne University of Southern Queensland, QLD Visual Arts Board Purchase Program, Australian Council Warrnambool Collection, Warnambool, VIC Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, NSW SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA
A.G. Edwards and Sons, St Louis, USA Australia Post, Australia BHP Billiton, Melbourne Blake Dawson, Australia Coopers & Lybrand, Australia Rio Tinto, Australia Dresdner Australia Limited, Brisbane IBM, Australia MacDonalds Collection, Australia Macquarie Bank, Australia Mark Twain Bank Shares, St Louis, USA Mercantile Bank, St Louis, USA Mercantile Bank, St Louis, USA PricewaterhouseCoopers, Australia Qantas Collection, Australia Shell, Australia Smorgan Family Collection, Melbourne Zoltek Corporation, St Louis, USA |
