Lucille Martin
Textile Artist & Found Object   (Byron Bay, NSW  &  Perth, Western Australia)

Lucille Martin is an award winning contemporary artist and communicator who works with a conceptual design aesthetic alongside the new breed of creatives working in multiple  disciplines. She has participated in many solo, group and curatorial exhibitions throughout Australia for over 20 years inspiring and moving audiences with her innovative materials. Her work has received awards, commissions and overseas residencies.

 “My work is about using textiles, found materials and word as expressive mediums, to ignite awareness about humanitarian, social and environmental issues and toward greater human accountability.

Recently back from a stint in NYC after receiving awards from The Australia Council –Visual Arts Board, Martin received rave reviews regarding her recent work using textile and word. The broad possibilities of her new work relate to the global diet of over consumption and consumerism at the expense of nature.  Multiple pieces of vintage lace, wooden ornaments and words are incorporated to symbolise the fragility of rainforests and the increasing loss of natural habitat and extinction of native insects, birdlife and animals.

Her work however, brings an optimism to life’s discarded objects. She re-configures obscure and unrelated items, investigating their complexities to create a new landscape of possibilities. Conceptual in approach, Lucille Martin’s beautifully created pieces resonate in their appeal. She takes her viewers on an intimate and poetic journey, providing dynamic, yet sensitive engagement with her audiences and the wider public. They encourage the individual to take a step, make a difference and find their own inner power to support our vulnerable society.

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2009  Australia Council  Professional Development Award
2009  SOFA International Art Fair, New York 2009 –
2009  Residency in LA & NY, USA
2009  Reconstruction Solo Exhibition Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW
2009  The Prometheus Art Prize- Highly Commended Judge Nick Mitzevich-QUIT
2008  Momentum-18th Tamworth Fiber & Textile Biennale, NSW
...........Curator Valerie Kirk. Traveling Exhibition throughout Australia 2008-2010
2007-8 Naturally Selected  Solo Exhibition- Lismore Regional Gallery
2007-8 Led Zeppelin  Touring Exhibition S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney,
            Curator Steven Alderton Lismore Regional Gallery,
2007  Threaded Connections  Conceptual Artist/Designer Major Installation
           & Documentary, Lismore Embroidery Guild
2007 Led Zeppelin World Tour Exhibition – Curator/Director Steven
            Alderton Lismore Regional Gallery 2007, Touring England and USA
2007 Selected Prometheus Award –Inaugural Award Selected- Gold Coast,
         Australia ( Current)
2006 Selected Chrysalis Group Exhibition – Arts Northern Rivers Curatorial
         Exhibition
2005 Artscape Sculpture Award Exhibition – Cape Byron Bay NSW
         Curator: Merran Morrison
2003 Berapa - Installation/Solo Exhibition and Publication - Fox Galleries,
         Brisbane -Subject Bali Bombing and Indonesia -Artwork Fundraiser for
         The Burns Unit in Denpasar,Bali
1996 Fellowship Award Ministry for the Arts-Perth Western Australia -Residency
          with The Jandu Warryu Indigenous Women
1995 Awarded Tokyo Residency by Australia Council
1995 Awarded Canon Artlab residency -Tokyo Awards
2005 Winner Border Art Prize “ Collateral Damage”Gold Coast Art Gall/Tweed River Gallery
2005 NSW Ministry for Arts, Awarded Residency. The Gunnery 2005, Sydney
1996 Western Australia Creative Fellowship Award . Ministry for the Arts,
1994 Australia Council Visual Arts Board- Studio Residency –Tokyo, Japan
1994 Canon ArtLab Award. Artist in Residence at Canon, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Perth Festival Fringe Western Australian Dept for the Arts -Project Grant.
1988 Australia Council Visual Arts Board - Project Grant. Sydney Australia.
See Detailed CV on www.LucilleMartin.com

Artists Statement
“Martin works ruthlessly as a bricoleur.  She scours sources, whether pages of text or second hand shops, reworking what have been hatched. Martin’s skilled craft making, once grounded within the art work’s surface, is synthesised through the sculptural making process. By manipulating the traditional practices of sewing and monogramming, she provokes new contexts, positioning objects with modern technology and the polemic of contemporary language. “    Beyond Bling by Courtney Kidd 2009