Mandy Martin

MANDY MARTIN

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

Wanderers in the Desert of the Real, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Salvadoresque, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

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

Absence and Presence, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Bridging the Wild: Salvator Rosa Series V, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Richmond, Victoria

Salvator Rosa Series 1V, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Peripecia: The Salvator Rosa Series, Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University, Canberra

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

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

Salvator Rosa Series 111, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne

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

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

The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, curated by Geraldine Barlow and Dr Kyla McFarlane

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

The Wynne Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales 24 March - April 2006

Philanthropy Rules! Orange regional Art Gallery April - May 2006

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Flourishing Resource, Burnie Regional Art Gallery; Side Space Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
Prints for UTS from the Friends, Sydney

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

Prime Painting Prize, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Nolan Gallery, Gold Coast City Art Gallery

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

Prime Television Painting Prize, Newcastle, October-December, Orange Regional Gallery, December-January 1995, Tamworth City Gallery, January-February 1995

Identities-Art from Australia, Wollongong Regional Gallery
Vertuosi, Youth Music Australia Print Portfolio, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne and Sherman Galleries, Sydney

Briefcase Project, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland
Poster Art in Australia, National Gallery of Australia
Identities-Art from Australia, National Gallery Tai Pei, Taiwan

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

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)

Canbrart: A Selection of Works by Artists from the ACT and Districts, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Pre-1990 Many group exhibitions 1976 - 1990

AWARDS

Land & Water Australia, Community Fellowship

ArtsACT Creative Arts Fellowship

Main Funding Round ACT Arts Program Grant

Environment Education Trust Grant, Minister for the Environment, NSW

The Alice Prize, Alice Springs
Australian Representative in Paris 1982, New York 1984, Nurnberg 1985-6

MAJOR COMMISSIONS

Australian Opera 40^th Anniversary Print Folio
Australian Opera Dinner Plate Series “The Flying Dutchman”
Esso Annual Patron's Print

Coopers & Lybrand, Melbourne

BHP, Melbourne

Santos, Adelaide

Australia Post Head Office, Adelaide, Gorge at Sunrise

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

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

National Portrait Gallery, `A Life in Service', Portrait, 18 Summer

Sasha Grishin, “Mandy Martin and Trisha Carroll: Absence and Presence, Australian Art Collector, issue 30, October - December, p. 165

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Llewellyn, Kate, `Mungo Dreaming', The Australian, Focus 1996
Grishin, S. Australian Printmaking in the 1990's, Sydney 1996

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

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

Conway, Ronald, Obsession and Civilisation

Hall, NG, Women Artists: Illustrated History, NY

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

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

Mandy Martin, L. Robin, M. Smith, Strata: Deserts Past Present and Future. An environmental project about a significant cultural place, Goanna Press, Canberra

Mandy Martin and S. Ryan, The Lachlan: Blue-Gold, exhibition catalogue

Mandy Martin, Land$cape : Gold & Water Canberra, 2003, exhibition catalogue,“ Land$cape : Gold & Water”

Mandy Martin, “Artist's Statement”, Mandy Martin: Peripecia, The Salvator Rosa Series, (exh. cat), The Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra

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

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."

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"

Eds. Niall, B. and Thompson, J. The Oxford Book of Australian Letters Oxford Uni Press Australia,
Letter to Nick Jose, 1997