Current May, 2005

Mandy Martin, born 1952 in Adelaide, is a practising artist who has held more than 110 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 and 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 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 is currently a Fellow of ANU. She lives in the Cowra region, NSW.

1977 - 2005 solo shows in Australia and America including:

Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne - 1990, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney - 1983, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004

Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA - 1990, 1994, 1998, 1999

Tracts: Back O'Bourke

Nolan Gallery, Canberra

Moree Regional Gallery,

Broken Hill City Art Gallery, 1997.

Dubbo Regional Art Gallery,

Albury Regional Art Centre, 1998

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

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, June 2002

Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, August - September 2002

The 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

Peripecia: the Salvator Rosa series

The Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra, April - May 2002,

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, May- June 2002

Strata: Desert of the Mind's Eye. An exhibition of Ikuntji artists and Mandy Martin

Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, June-July 2005

Selected group exhibitions, since 1993

Poster Art in Australia - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1993

Identities - Art from Australia - National Gallery Taiwan, Taipei, 1993

Hidden Treasures, Art in Corporate Collections - S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, January - February 1995

Women Hold Up Half the Sky - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, March - April 1995

Australian Art 1940-1990: From the Collection of the National Gallery of Australia - The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan, July - September 1995

Through Woman's Eyes: Australian Women Artists & War 1914-1990 - Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, August 1995

The Qantas Collection - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, November - December 1995

The Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990's - University of Melbourne, Melbourne, March- April, 1997

Australian Art in the 80's - National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, March 1997

Luoghi Del Corpo e Dello Spirito - Spoletto, Umbria, Italy, 30 June - 30 August 1999

Suddenly the Lake Weereewa: Lake George - Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, 12 December 1998 - 11 April 1999

Central Queensland Art Purchase - Rockhampton Art Gallery, December - January 2000

Shell Collection of Contemporary Art - Melbourne and Sydney, June 2000

Prelude: Selections from the Canberra Museum and Gallery Collection - July - August 2000

A Thousand Colours. Visual Art for Green ANU - ANU School of Art, Canberra, August -September 2000

Federation. Australian Art and Society 1901-2001 - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. December 2000 - February 2001, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, March - May 2001, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, June - August 2001, Newcastle Regional Gallery, August - October 2001, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, November 2001 - January 2002, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, February - April 2002, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, May - July 2002

Decade - Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, December 2000 - February 2001

Auriferous. The Gold Project - Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, April - June 2001

Reflecting Canberra - Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, February 2001 - ongoing

First Showing - Cowra Art Gallery, Cowra, 2001

Landscape as Metaphor - Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery, Townsville, April - June 2001. Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton, June - July 2001. Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, July - September 2001. Bond University, Gold Coast, September - October 2001

Orbit - University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide, July - September 2001

Imaging Identity and Place - Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, November 2001 - January 2002

Federation! But Who Makes a Nation? - Tweed River Regional Gallery, April 2001. Albury Regional Arts Centre, Albury, May - June 2001. Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford, June - July 2001. Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, July - September2001. Broken Hill City Art Gallery, Broken Hill, September - October 2001. UTS Gallery, Sydney, October - November 2001

Alchemy - Cadia Hill Gold Mine Art Project, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, January - February 2001

Imaging Identity and Place - QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, January - March 2002. Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn, May - June 2002. Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, June - August 2002. Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange, September - October 2002. Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, November - December 2002. Albury Art Gallery, Albury, December 2002 - January 2003, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, 5 February - 16 March 2003, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, 25 April - 1 June 2003, Gold Coast City Art Gallery 25 April- 1 June 2003, Tamworth City Gallery, 25 July - 31 August 2003

Landscape as Metaphor - QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, November 2001 - January 2002. ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, February - March 2002, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, February - March 2002

Factor Of Ten. A Future Worth Having - School of Art Gallery, National Institute of the Arts, Australian National University, Canberra. Oct - Nov 2002

Sublime. 25 years of the Wesfarmers Collection - Art Gallery of Western Australia. Perth October- November 2002 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, June - August 2002

Geelong Contemporary Art Prize - Geelong Gallery, September - November 2002

Australian Art in the National Gallery - National Gallery of Australia. September 2002

Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002 - National Gallery of Victoria, December 2002

Land$cape : Gold & Water - Cowra Art Gallery, January- February 2003, Foyer Gallery, School Of Art, ANU, Canberra, April 2003, Orange Regional Gallery , September 2003

National Works on Paper - Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Victoria , August 2004

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

Whatever happened to the revolution? - Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, March 11-May 9, 2005

GRANTS

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

SELECTED MAJOR COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia, Parliament House Collection, Canberra, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Phillip Institute, Artbank, Print Council of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Print Council of Western Australia, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Queen Victoria Museum and Gallery, Tasmania, Banyule Art Collection, Victoria, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Bendigo Art Gallery, R.M.I.T., Broken Hill Regional Gallery, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, Fremantle Art Gallery, Western Australia, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum, Tamworth City Art Gallery, NSW, Griffith University, Gold Coast College, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Victoria, University of Melbourne Gallery, Victoria, LaTrobe Valley Arts Centre, University of Southern Queensland, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Visual Arts Board Purchase Program, Australia Council, Michell Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria, Warrnambool Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Wollongong City Gallery, Australian National University Art Collection, University of Canberra, ACT, Emerald Shire, Queensland, Central Queensland University, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Cowra Art Gallery.

SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA AND U.S.A

A.G. Edwards and Sons, St. Louis, Missouri, I.B.M., Australia Post, Macquarie Bank, B.H.P., Mark Twain Bank Shares, St. Louis, Missouri, Blake Dawson Waldron, Price Waterhouse, Coopers & Lybrand, Santos, C.R.A. Limited, Zoltek Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri, Dresdner Australia Limit, Mercantile Bank, St. Louis, Smorgon Collection, Macdonalds Collection, Qantas Collection, Shell Australia.

PUBLICATIONS, 1992-2003

Hall, NG. Women Artists: Illustrated History. Abbeville Press, New York, 1992.

Conway, Ronald. Obsession and Civilisation 1993.

Contemporary Australian Women Artists, Poster Book. Craftsman House, Sydney, 1994.

Mancun, A. Art Through Australian Eyes. Longman Cheshire, PLACE? 1994.

Williams, Don. Simpson, Colin. Art Now - Issues in Contemporary Art Post 1970. McGraw Hill, Melbourne, 1994. [ISBN 007-470124x]

Voyt, A. New Visions, New Perspectives. Craftsman House, Sydney, 1994.

Sullivan, G. Seeing Australia- Views of Artists and Art Writers. Piper Press, Sydney, 1994.

Identities - Art to Taiwan, exhibition catalogue, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, 1995.

Buckner, Robin. Art & Design - Book 2. McGraw Hill, Melbourne, 1995.

Lindsay, R. Shell Collection of Contemporary Australian Art, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, September 1995. [ISBN 094986908]

Cater, Melissa. Out of Line: 25 Years of Women's Posters, exhibition catalogue, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995.

Waterlow, Nick. Macquarie Bank Art Collection. Macquarie Bank, 1995. "Brave New Women", Arts Feature, The Weekend Australian, Nov 5-6 1995, page18-19

Llewellyn, K. "Mungo Dreaming", Focus, The Australian, DATE, 1996, page 14

Grishin, S. Australian Printmaking in the 1990's. Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996.

Martin, M. Sinclair, P. Tracts Back O' Bourke, exhibition catalogue, Nolan Gallery, Canberra, 1997. [ISBN0 646 30535 2]

McAuliffe, C. Art and Suburbia. Craftsman House, Sydney, 1997.

Williams, D. Eyes on Australia: Talking About Art and Culture. Sydney, 1997.

Noble, J. The Delicate and Noxious Scrub. CSIRO, Canberra, 1997. [ISBN 0 643 059806]

Abel, N. Ryan, S. Sustainable Habitation in the Rangelands, Proceedings of a Fenner Conference on the Environment. Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra, 1997. [ISBN 0 643 063 277]

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

Haynes, P. "Mandy Martin: Word and Place", Salvator Rosa Series, exhibition catalogue, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, 1998.

St. James Guide to Contemporary Women Artists. St. James Press, Massachusets, 1998.

Haynes, P. "Further Explorations", Martin, M. Griffiths, T.

Watersheds: the Paroo to the Warrego, exhibition catalogue, Canberra, 1998. [ISBN 0 9577481 0 8]

Haynes, P. "Mandy Martin: Word and Place II", Salvator Rosa Series II, exhibition catalogue, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 1998.

Griffiths, T. "Meanjin. Essaying the Truth", Haunted, vol. 59, no. 1, 2000.

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.

Sever, N. " The Art of Mandy Martin" Primera Casa de Imprenta de los Americas, Mexico City, Mexico, March 2001.

Judd, C. Lawson, Auriferous. The Gold Project, exhibition catalogue, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, April- June 2001.

Haynes, Peter. "Mandy Martin: Ongoing Investigations", Inflows: the Channel Country, exhibition catalogue, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, 2001.

Green, E. North, I. Rowan, M. Orbit, exhibition catalogue, University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide, 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, Woolamooloo, 2001.

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

Bonyhady, T. Giffiths, Words for Country. Landscape and Language in Australia. UNSW Press, Sydney, 2002.

Malouf, D. Sever, 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.

WRITINGS BY THE ARTIST

Martin, M. "Letter to Nick Jose" in Niall, B. Thompson, J. (eds.). The Oxford Book of Australian Letters. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1997.

Fitzhardinge, G. Griffiths, T. Martin, M. Watersheds: the Paroo to the Warrego. Goanna Press, Canberra, 1999.

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. "Introduction", in Inflows: the Channel Country, exhibition catalogue, Canberra Museum and 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.

Martin, M. "Artist's Statement", Peripecia; the Salvator Rosa Series, exhibition catalogue, The ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, 2002.

Martin, M. Land$cape : Gold & Water Canberra, 2003, exhibition catalogue,"Land$cape : Gold & Water"

Martin, M and Ryan, S. The Lachlan: Blue-Gold, 2004, exhibition catalogue

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