Adjunct Professor
Collaborative art/ text environmental projects and aesthetic evaluation of landscape
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: mandy.martin@anu.edu.au

Mandy Martin, born 1952 in Adelaide, is a practising artist who has numerous solo exhibitions in Australia, Mexico and the USA. She has exhibited widely in curated exhibitions in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, USA, and Italy. Her works are in many public and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia, major state galleries and collections. In the USA she is represented in the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and many private collections. She has a number of works in the Australian National University collection. She studied at the South Australian School of Art, 1972-75. She was a lecturer at the School of Art, Australian National University between 1978 - 2003 and a Fellow of ANU between 2003-06.

Mandy Martin lives in the Cowra region, NSW.

Professional Activities

• Exhibited in The Ecologies Project Monash University Museum of Art 17 September - 22 November 2008
• Also working on a reconciliation land-art print project with the Cherel family, Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia together with the settler owners of Fossil Downs. In June she will return for a month residency at Mangkaja Arts Centre in Fitzroy Crossing.

Academic Highlights

• 1995 Environment Education Trust Grant, Minister for the Environment, New South Wales
• 2000 Main Funding Round ACT Arts Program Grant
• 2001 ArtsACT Creative Arts Fellowship
• 2002 Land & Water Australia, Community Fellowship
• 2003-4 LWA research project (with Libby Robin) for Ikuntji artists.

Selected Publications

Martin, M. ‘Watersheds: the Paroo to the Warrego’, in 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’, in Hamblin, A. (ed). 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., Carruthers, J., Fitzhardinge, G., Griffiths, T., Haynes, P., Inflows: The Channel Country 2001 Goanna Press, Canberra

Martin, M, Robin, L., Smith, M., Strata: Deserts Past Present and Future. An environmental project about a significant cultural place. Goanna Press, Canberra, 2005.

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.

Selected Publications 1998-2008

Haynes, Roslyn. Seeking the Centre, Literature and Art. Cambridge University Press,Sydney, 1998.

Griffiths, Tom ‘Meanjin. Essaying the Truth’, Haunted, vol. 59, no. 1, 2000.

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

Allen, Traudi. Cross-Currents in Contemporary Australian Art. Craftsman House, Sydney, 2001.

Bonyhady, T. Griffiths, T. Words for Country. Landscape and Language in 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.

Martin, M., Fitzhardinge, G., Haynes, P., Sinclair, P., Tracts: Back O' Bourke 1996 Goanna Press, Canberra

Herausgegeben von Regel, W., Köhler …hoch gerühmt, fast vergessen, neu gehessen....Der italienische Maler and poet Salvator Rosa. Studien zur Neubertung. Königshausen & Neumann. Würzburg 2007

Cranston CA, and Zeller, R., The Littoral Zone. Australia Contexts and their Writers ‘ Literature in the Arid Zone’ Pp. 70-92 Lynch, T., Rodopi Press. Amsterdam- New York NY 2007

Robin, L. and Smith, M., ‘Science in place and time: archaeology, ecology and environmental history’, in Dickman, C., Lunney, D., Burgin, S. (eds), Animals of the Arid Zone. Out on their Own? Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Mosman, N.S.W. 2007

Cranmer, Ursula, Landforms in Contemporary Art Pub Integrated Education Ltd. Celebrate Art Book Resource. Whangaparaoa, N. Z., 2008

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