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Mandy Martin
b. 1952 — 2021
Mandy Martin was a practising artist with a national and international reputation for conservation and landscape. She was born in 1952 in Adelaide and studied at the South Australian School of Art from 1972-75. Martin has held numerous exhibitions in Australia, Mexico and the USA. She has also been exhibited in France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan and Italy. Her works are in many public and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria, The Art Gallery of South Australia and other state collections and regional galleries. In the USA she is represented in the Guggenheim Museum New York; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno and many private collections. Martin was a lecturer at the School of Art, Australian National University between 1978 – 2003 and then a fellow there between 2003-06. She was an Adjunct Professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Canberra.
She lived in the Central Wes
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Adelaide-born Mandy Martin (1952-2021) was an artist, activist, and educator who, over the course of her thirty-year career, created poignant and powerful political prints as well as large-scale paintings that seek to incite action.
Martin studied at the South Australian School of Art (1972-75) and co-founded the Progressive Art Movement (PAM) with fellow South Australian artists Ann Newmarch, Andrew Hill, Pam Harris and Robert Boynes. She relocated to Canberra in 1978 to take up a teaching position at the Canberra School of Art, a position she held until 2003. She went on to become a Fellow of the Australian National University and was awarded an Adjunct Professorship in 2008.
From the early 1970s Martin was involved in feminist and political art movements and her practice highlighted the plight of migrant women workers, the anti-Vietnam involvement, and issues of corruption in ‘big business’. As Martin’s career progressed, her focus shifted to explore the impacts of humanity on the environment and the increasing threat of climate change. These concerns were expressed
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Mandy Martin
Australian artist (1952–2021)
Mandy Martin | |
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| Born | (1952-11-18)18 November 1952 Adelaide, South Australia |
| Died | 10 July 2021(2021-07-10) (aged 68) Orange, New South Wales, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | South Australia School of Art |
| Notable work | Red Ochre Cove, 1987 |
| Website | www.mandymartinartist.com |
Mandy Martin (18 November 1952 – 10 July 2021) was a contemporary Australian painter, printmaker and teacher. She was involved in the development of feminist art in Australia from the mid-1970s and as exhibited widely in Australia and internationally.[1] In recent years she used the art she created as part of the ongoing debate on climate change, an area in which she was "prolifically active".[2] Based in Canberra for many years, she was also a lecturer at the Australian National University (ANU) School of Art from 1978 to 2003.[3] As well as being a visual artist, Martin was an adjunct professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and
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