ABOUT — Mandy Martin

Mandy Martin

b. 1952 — 2021

Mandy Martin was a practising artist with a national and international reputation for conservation and landscape. She was born in 1952 in Adelaide and studied at the South Australian School of Art from 1972-75. Martin has held numerous exhibitions in Australia, Mexico and the USA. She has also been exhibited in France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan and Italy. Her works are in many public and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria, The Art Gallery of South Australia and other state collections and regional galleries. In the USA she is represented in the Guggenheim Museum New York; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno and many private collections. Martin was a lecturer at the School of Art, Australian National University between 1978 – 2003 and then a fellow there between 2003-06. She was an Adjunct Professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Canberra.

She lived in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia.

Born 1952, Adelaide, 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 -18 Adjunct Professor Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra

2019 Honorary Professor Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Canberra

1995-2016 Creative practice focused in large part on 10 collaborative art and environment projects with Indigenous people in remote and regional Australia. The final project was Arnhembrand, Living on Healthy Country

2015-2019 Participation in the last 4 Climarte, Climate + Art = Change festivals iIncluding 3 Artist Run Initiatives; The Warming Australian Galleries Melbourne, Luminous Relic Geelong Gallery, Victoria and Orange Regional Gallery, NSW and Rewriting the Score Latrobe Regional Art Gallery, Victoria.

2019-2020 Canberra Museum and Gallery in Hi-Vis Futures Alexander Boynes and Mandy Martin, sound by Tristen Parr.

LECTURES AND PUBLIC EVENTS

All the above exhibitions and ARI’s have involved media appearances, public forums and public opening events. These well attended events were focused around discussing the art exhibitions and climate change with regional audiences.

29 April 2017 Climarte panel Geelong Gallery for Luminous Relic, Alexander Boynes, Mandy Martin, Guy Abrahams, Bronwyn Johnson and chaired by Jason Smith.

2 June 2018 Luminous Relic panel, Orange Regional Art Gallery with Tom Griffiths, Libby Robin, Mandy Martin, Alexander Boynes, Christof Mauch and chaired by Brad Hammond.

17 May 2019 Rewriting the score joint Bank Australia and Latrobe Regional Gallery evening event. Mandy Martin, Alexander Boynes and convenor.

28 Nov 2019 Hi - Vis Futures, panel Art+ Emotion= Action Canberra Museum and Gallery with Alexander Boynes, Mandy Martin, Libby Robin and Jamie Pittock and chaired by Virginia Rigney

4 Dec 2019 Hi-Vis Futures, In Conversation: Collaboration in Art and Music in Hi-Vis Futures with Tristen Parr, Alexander Boynes and Mandy Martin chaired by Kim Kunio.

1 Feb 2020 Hi- Vis Futures event, Youth Climate Forum: Working Towards A Sustainable Future with guests Will Steffen, Kate Auty, Aaron Tang

SELECTED Solo Exhibitions

2021 Step Change Mandy Martin, Alexander Boynes and Tristen Parr, Fremantle Biennale, WA, Nov 5-24th 2021

2019 -2020 Hi-Vis Futures Alexander Boynes and Mandy Martin with Tristen Parr, Canberra Museum and Gallery, ACT 15 Nov 2019- 1 Feb 2010

Which Way The Wind Blows Selected works from the collection by Mandy Martin. Latrobe Regional Gallery 13 July- 13 October 2019

Rewriting the Score 2019 Alexander Boynes, Mandy Martin and Tristen Parr, Latrobe Regional Gallery 13 April- 14 July 2019 as part of the Art+

Climate = Change 2019 festival

2017-2018 Mandy Martin. Triggers in the Landscape’ Burrinja Foyer Gallery, presented in collaboration with Australian Galleries and the Burrinja Climate

Change Biennale, Victoria

2016-2018 Mandy Martin: Homeground with featured artists Alexander Boynes and Trisha Carroll. A Bathurst Regional Art Gallery touring exhibition

curated by Sarah Gurich. Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 1 July- 14 August, Penrith Regional Gallery and Lewers Bequest, 3 December 2016-26

February 2017 Orange Regional Gallery, 16 September- 12 November, Cowra Regional Gallery 10 February – 18 March 2018

2015 A Change in the Weather Beaver Gallery, Canberra

2014 Playing with Fire Australian Galleries Sydney- Roylston Street

Transition Mandy Martin: works from the Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria

2013 Desert Lake: but all night long the red dreams 2013’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

2011 Wanderers in the Desert of the Real 2011 Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney

2009 Wanderers in the Desert of the Real 2009 Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

Mandy Martin and Mangkaja Artists painting Fitzroy River Valley Country 2007-09,Australian Galleries, Smith Street, 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.

2001-02 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

2001 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

1999-00 Watersheds: the Paroo to the Warrego, Touring exhibition: Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, VIC; Mildura Arts Centre, VIC; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW;

Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW

1997-98 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:

Anima Gallery, Adelaide – 1986, 1989, 1991

Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA – 1990, 1994, 1998, 1999

Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra – 1988, 1991, 1992

Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne – 1990, 1992, 1996, 1998

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney – 1983, 1974, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999

Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane – 1986, 1988, 1992

Missouri Botanical Gallery, St Louis, USA – 1990

SELECTED Group Exhibitions SINCE 2005-2020

2019 Wish You Were Here: landscapes from the collection 26 Oct 2019 -27 January-2020 Newcastle art Gallery, New South Wales

2018 Celebration. 20 years of collecting visual art at CMAG. Canberra Museum And Gallery. ACT. 23 March- 17 June

Head to Head. Shifting perspectives in Australian portraiture Flinders University Art Museum, SA 26 April- 24 June

Crafting the house on the hill: art, craft and design and the building of Australian Parliament House Canberra Museum and Gallery, ACT 7 July

2017 -2018 Luminous Relic Geelong Gallery, Climarte 2017. Alexander Boynes, Mandy Martin and Tristen Parr, 8 April- 9 July, Orange Regional Gallery 26 May- 17 June, 2018

2017 Light- Stone- Fire Alexander Boynes, David Leece and Mandy Martin’ Australian Galleries’ Derby Street VIC 10 -27 August

2017 Arnhembrand. Living on Healthy Country, Space, Macquarie Group, Sydney, 6-27 July

Somewhere between Sky and Earth Campbell Arts Centre, NSW, 3 February- June

2016 Black White & Restive, Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW

Call + Response Orange Regional Gallery, NSW

2015 -2016 Country and Western. Landscape re-imagined, touring though 2015-17, Regional Galleries, Perc Tucker, Townsville, S.H Erwin, Sydney, Cairns

BRAG 200 X 200 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst NSW

Urban Suburban Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra ACT

The Night Parrot Delmar Gallery, Ashfield NSW

The Warming Australian Galleries Derby Street, Melbourne VIC

Slow Burn. Fire in mythology and culture Delmar Gallery, Ashfield, NSW

2014 Paruku Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA, one of each Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

Mother Nature is a Lesbian Political Printmaking in South Australia, Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide

Australia Day 2014 Celebratory Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

Australia Day 2014 Celebratory Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney

2013 Desert Lake, Araluen Galleries, Alice Springs, NT

Australian Galleries exhibition, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, NSW

Small Works ceramics, glass, paintings, works on paper, sculpture. Beaver Galleries ACT

Mix Tape 1980s Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style National Gallery of Victoria

2012-13 Summer Stock Show, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

2012 En plein air Winds of Change Weereewa Exhibition, Goulburn Regional Gallery, Goulburn, NSW

2011 large exhibition of small works, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney

large exhibition of small works, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

2010 Desert Channels: the impulse to conserve, Hugh Sawry Gallery, Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame, Longreach, QLD

Contemporary Australian Drawing, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne,

Countryscapes 2010 Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW, The Glasshouse Arts Conference and Entertainment Centre, Port Macquarie, NSW

Canberra and Beyond’ Solander Gallery, Canberra

Stick it! Collage in Australian Art, 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

2009-10 Summer Stock Show, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

2009. 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, curated by Geraldine Barlow and Dr Kyla McFarlane, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

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, Wollongong, 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 centre throughout NSW in 2006 and 2007

Landscape Now, Thirty- Six Artists interpret the landscape, Solander Gallery, Canberra

Landscape as Metaphor, Perc Tucker Regional 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

SELECTED MAJOR COLLECTIONS

Artbank, Sydney

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

Australia Council, Sydney

Australian National University Art Collection, Canberra

Australian War Memorial, Canberra

Banyule Art Collection, Ivanhoe, VIC

Bathurst 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 Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW

Geelong Gallery, Victoria

Emerald 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 Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada USA

Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW

New England Regional Arts Museum, Armidale, NSW

Orange Regional Gallery, NSW

Parliament House Collection, Canberra

Phillip Institute, Melbourne

Print Council of Australia, Melbourne

Print Council of Western Australia, Perth

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane

Queen Victoria Museum and Gallery, Launceston, TAS

Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, SA

R.M.I.T. University collection, Melbourne

Sale Regional Art Gallery, Victoria

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, Australia Council

Warrnambool Collection, Warrnambool, 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

PricewaterhouseCoopers, Australia

Qantas Collection, Australia

Santos, Australia

Shell, Australia

Smorgon Family Collection, Melbourne

Zoltek Corporation, St Louis, USA

SELECTED IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS

Abrahams, G, Johnson, B, Gellatly, K Art + Climate = Change 2016 Melbourne University Press, Victoria

Allen, T; Cross-Currents in Contemporary Australian Art, Random House, Sydney, 2001

Environment, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra, 1997

Bayley, M, Breynard, S, Van Mourik, J, Crafting the house on the hill 2018, ( exhibition catalogue) Canprint Canberra

Berg, P. Interwoven: The Commissioned Art and Craft for Parliament House 2013

Bonyhady, T, Giffiths, T; Words for Country. Landscape and Language in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2002

CCAS 2013 Canberra Contemporary Art Space Centenary Program Canberra ACT

Cramer, U; Landforms in Cotemporary Art, Integrated Education Ltd. Celebrate Art Book Resource, Whangaparaoa, New Zealand, 2008

Curthoys, A, McGrath, A; Writing Histories. Imagination and Narration, Monash Publications in 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 NSW, Woolomooloo, 2001

Conversations with the Flinders University Art Collections Speak To Me 2016 Flinders University

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: Word and Place”, Salvator Rosa Series (exhibition catalogue), Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, 1998

Haynes, P; "Mandy Martin: Word and Place II", Salvator Rosa Series II (exhibition catalogue), 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 Red Ochre Cove”, Headon, 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, P. The Calleen Collection 2019. Cowra Art Gallery, NSW

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 Contexts and their Writers, Rodopi Press, Amsterdam and New York, 2007, p. 70-92

Malouf, D. Severs, N. Peripecia; the Salvator Rosa Series (exhibition catalogue), Australian Monday, 11 November 2019National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, 2002

Mauch, C and Robin, L. The Edges of Environmental History. Honouring Jane Carruthers. RCC Perspectives. Deutsches Museum Munich, Germany and Portuegese version 2014

Mitman, G., Armiero, M., Emmett, R.S., “ Future Remains. A Cabinet of Curiosities fro the Anthropocene. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago USA 2017

Muddiman, S; Imaging, Identity and Place (exhibition catalogue), Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW, 2001

Murray, D Hotsprings, Macmillan Art Publishing Melbourne Victoria 2013

Read, P; Belonging. Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2000

Regel, W, Köhler; (Hrsg.)…hochgerühmt, fast vergessen, neu gesehen… Der italienische Maler Studien zur Neubewetung, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2007

Sever, 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

Toland, A, Noller, J, Wessolek,G, Field to Palette. Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene “Sketches in the sands of time” Mandy Martin and Libby Robin with response by Guy Fitzhardinge and Mike Smith 2019 CRC Press Boco Raton, Florida

Tsokhas, K; Making a Nation State: Cultural Identity, Economic Nationalism & Sexuality in Australian History, Monash University Press, Melbourne, 2001

SELECTED WRITINGS BY THE ARTIST 1996- 2020

Fitzhardinge, G, Griffiths, T, Martin, M; Watersheds: the Paroo to the Warrego, Goanna Press, Canberra, 1999

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, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1997

Martin, M; "Watersheds: the Paroo to the Warrego", People and rangelands: proceedings of the VIth International Rangeland congress, V1 International Rangeland Congress Inc, Australia, 1999

Martin, M; “This El Dorado of pure recognition and desert of pure non - recognition”, Vision of Future Landscapes Proceedings 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 Gallery, Canberra, 2001

Martin, M; “They Have a Faith to Move Mountains”, Auriferous. The Gold Project (exhibition catalogue), Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, April- June 2001

Toland, A., Noller, J., Wessolek, G., Field to Palette. Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene 2019 CRC Press Boco Raton, Florida

SELECTED IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS

Abrahams, G, Johnson, B, Gellatly, K Art + Climate = Change 2016 Melbourne University Press, Victoria