Lucille Martin is an award winning artist and communicator based in Australia. Working with textile, installations, recycled materials and the medium of words, her current work inspires awareness about humanitarian, environmental, political and women’s issues. Nationally recognised, Lucille has exhibited widely throughout Australia over 20 years, receiving awards, commissions and overseas residencies.
The use of language, words, numbers and mapping help introduce a narrative, in particular, events and values relating to people, place and history.
Martin’s beautifully created pieces resonate in their appeal. Conceptual in approach, Lucille aims to highlight and fuse the traditional craft practices of sewing and monogramming with modern technology and contemporary language. She takes her viewers on an intimate and poetic journey, providing dynamic yet sensitive engagement with her audience and the wider public.
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Highlighted works include ‘Berapa’, 2003, relating to the Bali Bombing of 2002 profiled on ABC-TV Sunday Arts program which supported a memorial program of selected artworks to honour and raise funds for Australian and Indonesian victims of the 2002 Bali Bombing.
And ‘Collateral Damage’, winner of the 2004 Border Art Prize, commended in the Inaugural 2005 Prometheus Award and The 2006 Alice Art Prize related, and Women’s Tears 2004 are emotive works relating to war.
Martin has been awarded commissions and several Australia Council, professional development grants to exhibit in USA, Japan and Italy. She will travel to New York and Milan in 2012 to develop a new series
