Mandy Martin - Artist Profile - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

Mandy Martin

Mandy Martin, Wanderers in the Desert of the Real, 2008

Mandy Martin - Salvadoresque, 2006

Absence And Presence, 2004

Salvator Rosa series IV, 2002

	MANDY MARTIN
	www.mandy-martin.com Born in Adelaide, Australia 1952 Studied South Australian School of Art, Adelaide 1972-75 Lecturer in painting and drawing, School of Art, Institute of the Arts, Australian National University 1978-2003 Lives in the Cowra region, New South Wales, Australia CV 1998 - 2008
	SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008	Wanderers in the Desert of the Real, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2006	Salvadoresque, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2005	Absence and Presence, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Richmond, Victoria Strata: Desert of the Mind's Eye. An exhibition of Ikuntji artists and Mandy Martin, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, June-July 2005
2004	Absence and Presence, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2003	Bridging the Wild: Salvator Rosa Series V, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Richmond, Victoria
2002	Salvator Rosa Series 1V, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Peripecia: The Salvator Rosa Series, Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University, Canberra
2001 - 2002	Inflows: the Channel Country; Canberra Museum and Gallery, May - June 2001, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, December 2001- February 2002, Albury Regional Art Gallery, March 2002, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, May - June 2002, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, August - September 2002
2001	Salvator Rosa series; Casa de la Primera Imprenta de America, Festival Centro Historico Mexico City, March - April 2001, Casa Gene Byron, Festival Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico, September 2001
2000	Salvator Rosa Series 111, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1999 - 2000	Watersheds: the Paroo to the Warrego, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, August - October 1999, Mildura Arts Centre, October - November 1999, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, November 1999 - February 2000, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, February - April 2000
1977- 99	many solo shows in Australia and America including: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney - 1983, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1991,1993,1995, 1997, 1999 Anima Gallery, Adelaide - 1986, 1989, 1991 Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra - 1988, 1991, 1992 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne - 1990, 1992, 1996, 1998 Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane - 1986, 1988, 1992 Missouri Botanical Garden, St.Louis - 1990 Austral Gallery, St Louis - 1990, 1994, 1998, 1999 Tracts: Back O'Bourke, Nolan Gallery, Canberra, Moree Regional Gallery, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, Albury Regional Art Centre, 1997-1998 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS SINCE 1990
2008	The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, curated by Geraldine Barlow and Dr Kyla McFarlane
2007	The Kilgour Prize, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales, 9 December 2006- 28 January, 2007 Solander Survey, Solander Gallery, Australian Capital Territory, 15 June- 16 July, 2007 Beyond Hill End, Cudgegong Gallery, Gulgong, New South Wales, 22 June- 6 August, 2007 Winter Solace: Simply Red, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, New South Wales, 21 July - 11 August 2007 Glimpse: Inside Gold Coast City Art Gallery's Collection, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD (collected) women, Wollongong City Gallery, 3 March - 29 April
2006	The Wynne Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales 24 March - April 2006 Philanthropy Rules! Orange regional Art Gallery April - May 2006
2005	Whatever happened to the revolution? Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, March 11-May 9, 2005 Watermarks. Reflections on the water history and culture of Orange and district. Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales 22 October- 27 November 2005 Making a Place for herself. Women's experiences of landscapes and national parks. Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales. 22 November 2005 and touring National Park visitor centers throughout NSW in 2006 and 2007 Landscape Now. Thirty- Six Artists interpret the landscape. Solander Gallery, ACT, 11 March - 24 April 2005
2004	Absence and Presence, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Nov-Dec 2004 2004 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Victoria Fleurieu Art Prize, Adelaide, South Australia, November 2004 Fleurieu Heritage Art Exhibition, Adelaide, South Australia, November 2004 Alice Springs Art Prize, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, October 2004 Landmarks Cowra Art Gallery, New South Wales, September- October 2004
2003	Imaging Identity and Place, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Cambelltown City Council, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Albury Art Gallery, Albury, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Tamworth City Gallery Land$cape : Gold & Water, Cowra Art Gallery, Foyer Gallery, School of Art, ANU, Canberra, Orange Regional Gallery
2002	First Twenty Years, 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. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Geraldton Regional Art Galleries, Heide Museum of Modern Art, City Hall Gallery, Brisbane, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Cairns Regional Art Gallery, Bendigo Museum and Art Gallery, New England Regional Gallery. Landscapes, Cowra Art Gallery Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery Australian Art in the National Gallery National Gallery of Australia Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002 National Gallery of Victoria
2001	Central Queensland Art Purchase, Rockhampton Art Gallery Trust, 7 December 2001 - 20 January, 2002 Orbit: Artists and Designers from South Australia,South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide Imaging Identity and Place,Grafton Regional Gallery The Mine Project,Orange Regional Gallery Auriferous: The Gold Project, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst Reflecting Canberra, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery Landscape as Metaphor, Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery; Rockhampton Art Gallery; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery; Bond University, Gold Coast; QUT Art Museum, Brisbane; Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra Federation! But Who Makes a Nation? Tweed River Regional Gallery, Albury Regional Arts Centre, Albury, Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, Broken Hill, UTS Gallery, Sydney Alchemy. Cadia Hill Gold Mine Art Project, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
2000	Central Queensland Art Purchase, Rockhampton Art Gallery Shell Australia Collection Contemporary Art, Melbourne & Sydney First Showing, Cowra Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW Prelude: Selections from the Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection A Thousand Colours: Visual Art for Green ANU, School of Art, ANU, Canberra Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901-2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Benalla Art Gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Newcastle Regional Gallery, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston Decade, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
1999	Looking at the landscape, Nolan Gallery, Canberra Luoghi Del Carpo e Dello Spirito, Spoleto, Umbria, Italy Suddenly the lake Weereewa: Lake George, Canberra Museum and Gallery
1998	A Flourishing Resource, Burnie Regional Art Gallery; Side Space Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart Prints for UTS from the Friends, Sydney
1997	Ten Important Painters, Solander Gallery, Yarralumla The Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990's, The University of Melbourne, Hamilton Art Gallery, April-May, Geelong Art Gallery, May -June, Bendigo Art Gallery, August-September The Australian National University Fiftieth Anniversary Touring Exhibition, Orange Regional Gallery, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Susan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Tamworth Regional Gallery Australian Art in the 80's, National Gallery of Victoria, March Australian Opera 40^th Anniversary Print Folio, Sydney Landmarks: Views of the Australian Landscape by Contemporary Australian Painters, Melbourne, Campbelltown Regional Art Gallery, April
1996	Prime Painting Prize, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Nolan Gallery, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
1995	Hidden Treasures, Art in Corporate Collections, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, January-February Eve-Olution,Newcastle Region Art Gallery Downland College Collection, Toowoomba Region Gallery, March-April Staff Amenities Fund Donations to the Art Collection 1982-1994, Australian National University, Canberra The Best Face Value for Autumn, Wollongong City Gallery, March-May Women Hold Up Half The Sky, National Gallery of Australia, March-April Australian Art 1940-1990, from the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan 28 July-3 September
1994-95	Prime Television Painting Prize, Newcastle, October-December, Orange Regional Gallery, December-January 1995, Tamworth City Gallery, January-February 1995
1994	Identities-Art from Australia, Wollongong Regional Gallery Vertuosi, Youth Music Australia Print Portfolio, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne and Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1993	Briefcase Project, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland Poster Art in Australia, National Gallery of Australia Identities-Art from Australia, National Gallery Tai Pei, Taiwan
1992	Works for 10 Square Wilderness, Linden Gallery, Melbourne Artists from Canberra & Districts in the Parliament House Art Collection, Parliament House, Canberra Henri Worland Memorial 20^th Anniversary Collection, Warrnambool Art Gallery ACAF3, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
1991	David Jones Gallery Touring Exhibition Indo Eco, The Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, April 1991 Sale Regional Arts Centre, July 1991 Linden, St Kilda, June 1991 The Four Elements, Dissonance Exhibition Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, September 1991 Maitland Regional Gallery Muswellbrook Regional gallery Transitional Times, The Print Council of Australia 25^th Anniversary Print Commission, September 1991 Ten-to-One Print Project, Canberra ACT 1990 Touring Show A Portfolio of Women Artists, Cancer Council - 1990 Collection, David Jones Gallery (Touring)
1990	Canbrart: A Selection of Works by Artists from the ACT and Districts, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Pre-1990 Many group exhibitions 1976 - 1990
	AWARDS
2002	Land & Water Australia, Community Fellowship
2001	ArtsACT Creative Arts Fellowship
2000	Main Funding Round ACT Arts Program Grant
1995	Environment Education Trust Grant, Minister for the Environment, NSW
1991	The Alice Prize, Alice Springs Australian Representative in Paris 1982, New York 1984, Nurnberg 1985-6
	MAJOR COMMISSIONS
1996	Australian Opera 40^th Anniversary Print Folio Australian Opera Dinner Plate Series “The Flying Dutchman” Esso Annual Patron's Print
1995	Coopers & Lybrand, Melbourne
1993	BHP, Melbourne
1991	Santos, Adelaide
1990	Australia Post Head Office, Adelaide, Gorge at Sunrise
1988	New Parliament House, Canberra, Red Ochre Cove
	MAJOR COLLECTIONS
	Artbank, Sydney Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of South Australia Art Gallery of Western Australia Australia Council, Sydney Australian National University Art Collection Australian War Memorial, Canberra Banyule Art Collection, Victoria Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Bendigo Art Gallery Broken Hill Regional Gallery Canberra Museum and Gallery Central Queensland University Emerald Shire, Queensland Fremantle Art Gallery, WA Griffith University, Gold Coast University College Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum Joshua McClelland Print Room, Victoria Latrobe Valley Arts Centre Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Michell Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Newcastle Region Art Gallery New England Regional Arts Museum Parliament House Collection 1987-8 Phillip Institute Print Council of Western Australia Print Council of Australia Queen Victoria Museum and Gallery, Tasmania Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York Tamworth City Art Gallery, NSW University Art Museum, University of Queensland University of Canberra, ACT University of Melbourne Gallery, Victoria University of Southern Queensland Visual Arts Board Purchase Programme, Australia Council Warrnambool Collection Wollongong City Gallery
	PRIVATE COLLECTIONS THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA and USA
	A.G. Edwards and Sons, St. Louis, Missouri Australia Post Blake Dawson Waldron B.H.P. Coopers & Lybrand CRA Limited Dresdner Australia Limited IBM KPMG Macdonalds Collection Macquarie Bank Mark Twain Bank Shares, St Louis, Missouri Mercantile Bank, St. Louis, Missouri Price Waterhouse Santos Smorgon Collection Shell Australia Qantas Collection Zoltek Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri
	PUBLICATIONS
2007	Cranston, CA. and Zeller, R The Littoral Zone. Australian Contexts and their Writers. " Literature in the Arid Zone." Pp.70-92 by Lynch, T. Rodopi Press. Amsterdam-New York NY 2007 Dickman, C., Lunney, D., Burgin, S., Animals of Arid Australia. Out on their Own? Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Mosman, N. S. W. 2007 “Science in place and time: archaeology, ecology and environmental history” Robin, L., Smith, M. Regel,W, Köhler (Hrsg.), …hochgerühmt, fast vergessen, neu gesehen… Der italienische Maler Studien zur Neubewertung. Königshausen & Neumann. Würzburg 2007
2005	National Portrait Gallery, `A Life in Service', Portrait, 18 Summer
2004	Sasha Grishin, “Mandy Martin and Trisha Carroll: Absence and Presence, Australian Art Collector, issue 30, October - December, p. 165
2003	Ashley Crawford, “Mandy Martin,” See Here Now: Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, editors Chris MacAuliffe and Sue Harvey, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd, Victoria, p. 86, 87 City of Whitehorse Art Collection (catalogue), City of Whitehorse, Nunawading, Victoria
2002	Bonyhady, T. Giffiths, T. Words for Country. Landscape and Language in Australia. UNSW Press, Sydney, 2002 Malouf, D. Sever, N. Peripecia; the Salvator Rosa Series, exhibition catalogue, The ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, 2002 Gray, A. Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2002. Sisley, A. Davidson, D. Alchemy, the Cadia Gold Mine Art Project, exhibition catalogue, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW, 2002. Chris Chapman, “Mandy Martin - Peripecia: The Salvator Rosa Series,” Australian Art Collector, issue 20, April - June 2002, p. 40
2001	Sever, N. " The Art of Mandy Martin" Primera Casa de Imprenta de los Americas, Mexico City, Mexico, March 2001 Judd, C. and Lawson, A., Auriferous.The gold project, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, April- June Erica Green, I. North, M.Rowan, Orbit: Artists and Designers from South Australia, University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide Allen, Traudi. Cross-Currents In Contemporary Australian Art, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2001 Haynes, Peter, "Mandy Martin: Ongoing Investigations", Inflows: the Channel Country, exhibition catalogue, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, 2001. Muddiman, S. Imaging, Identity and Place, exhibition catalogue, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW, 2001 Tsokhas, K. Making A Nation State: Cultural Identity, Economic Nationalism & Sexuality in Australian History. Monash University Press, Melbourne, 2001. Federation! But who makes the nation? Exhibition catalogue, Museum & Galleries Foundation of NSW, Woolloomooloo, 2001
2000	Griffiths, T. Vol. 59, no 1 2000 Haunted Meanjin." Essaying the Truth" Haynes, P. “Tom Roberts and Mandy Martin: From the Big Picture to Red Ochre Cove”, Headon, D. Williams, J. (eds.). Makers of Miracles. The Cast of the Federation Story. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000. Read, P. Belonging. Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2000. Curthoys, Ann. McGrath, Ann. (eds.). Writing Histories. Imagination and Narration. Monash Publications in History, Melbourne, 2000. Haynes, P. "Mandy Martin: From Word To Place", Salvator Rosa Series III, exhibition catalogue, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, 2000.
1999	St. James Guide to Contemporary Women Artists St. James Press MT USA Martin, M. Griffiths,T. Watersheds: the Paroo to the Warrego. Canberra ISBN 0 9577481 0 8 Haynes, P. "Further Explorations", Watersheds: the Paroo to the Warrego, ibid Haynes, P. "Mandy Martin: Word and Place11", catalogue Salvator Rosa series 11, Roslyn9 Oxley Gallery, Sydney
1998	Haynes, Rosslyn 1998 Seeking the Centre, Literature and Art. Cambridge Uni. Press, Sydney Haynes, P. Mandy Martin: Word and Place. Catalogue "Salvator Rosa Series", Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1997	Martin,M. Sinclair,P.Tracts Back O'Bourke, Canberra 1997 Williams, D. Eyes on Australia: Talking About Art and Culture,Sydney, 1997 Noble, J. The Delicate and Noxious Scrub, Canberra, 1997 Abel, N. and Ryan, S. Sustainable Habitation in the Rangelands, Proceedings of a Fenner Conference on the Environment , Canberra, 1997
1996	Llewellyn, Kate, `Mungo Dreaming', The Australian, Focus 1996 Grishin, S. Australian Printmaking in the 1990's, Sydney 1996
1995	Identities -Art to Taiwan, Tai Pei Fine Arts Museum, 1995 Art & Design - Book 2, Robin Buckner, McGraw Hill Lindsay, R. Shell Collection of Contemporary Australian Art, September 1995 Waterlow, Nick, Macquarie Bank Art Collection, 1995 `Brave New Women', The Weekend Australian, Arts Features, Nov 5-6
1994	Contemporary Australian Women Artists, Poster Book, Craftsman House, Mancun, A. Art Through Australian Eyes, Longman Cheshire 1994 Art Now - Issues in Contemporary Art Post 1970, Don Williams and Colin Simpson, Mcgraw Hill, 1994 ISBN 007-470124x Voigt, A. New Visions, New Perspectives, Craftsman House 1994 Sullivan, G. Seeing Australia- Views of Artists and Art Writers, Piper Press 1994
1993	Conway, Ronald, Obsession and Civilisation
1992	Hall, NG, Women Artists: Illustrated History, NY
1991	Smith, T. and Smith, B. Australian Painting Nancy G. Heller, Women Artists: An Illustrated History, Abbeville Press Inc. Germaine, Australia Artists & Galleries, 1990-91 Eileen Chanin, Australian Painting, Craftsman House. Drury, Neville (ed) New Art Four, Craftsman
	WRITINGS BY THE ARTIST
2007	Martin, M.," Absence and Presence" in Potter, E., Mackinnon, A., McKenzie, S., McKay, J Fresh Water. New Perspectives on Water in Australia Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Victoria 2007. The book is now available on-line too. http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/ebooks/0-522-85425-7/index.html
2005	Mandy Martin, L. Robin, M. Smith, Strata: Deserts Past Present and Future. An environmental project about a significant cultural place, Goanna Press, Canberra
2004	Mandy Martin and S. Ryan, The Lachlan: Blue-Gold, exhibition catalogue
2003	Mandy Martin, Land$cape : Gold & Water Canberra, 2003, exhibition catalogue,“ Land$cape : Gold & Water”
2002	Mandy Martin, “Artist's Statement”, Mandy Martin: Peripecia, The Salvator Rosa Series, (exh. cat), The Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
2001	Martin, M. “They Have a Faith to Move Mountains”, in Judd, C. Lawson, A. Auriferous. The Gold Project, exhibition catalogue, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, April- June 2001 Mandy Martin, Inflows: the Channel Country, "Introduction", 2001 Canberra
2000	Hamblin,A.(ed) Vision of future landscapes.Proceedings of 1999 Australian Academy of Science Fenner Conference on the Environment, 2-5 May 1999, Canberra . Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra. " This El Dorado of pure recognition and desert of pure non-recognition."
1999	Fitzhardinge, G., Griffiths, T., Martin, M. Martin, M. Griffiths,T. Watersheds: the Paroo to the Warrego, ISBN 0 9577481 0 8 Goanna Press, Canberra V1 International Rangeland Congress,Inc. People and rangelands: proceedings of the VI th International Rangeland congress. Australia. "Watersheds: the Paroo to the Warrego"
1998	Eds. Niall, B. and Thompson, J. The Oxford Book of Australian Letters Oxford Uni Press Australia, Letter to Nick Jose, 1997