Photo by Tara C Moore (2024)
Lily Mae Martin is a visual artist born in Melbourne. She graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2008 with a Bachelor of Fine Art majoring in Drawing. Lily Mae was awarded the Lionel Gell travelling scholarship and went to Berlin and Wales, where she spent a number of years refining her technical practice. Since returning to Australia, her work has been widely exhibited and highly commended in a number of prizes. Her recent exhibitions include A Wolrd of One’s Own – podcast and exhibition -Tai Snaith, Elizabeth Gower, Katherine Hattam, Deborah Kelly, Lily Mae Martin, Fiona McMonagle, Sally Smart and Lisa Waup. (2021), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, and Veneration (2021), Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne. She was a finalist for the 2016 Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat; winner of the 2016 Ursula Hoff Institute Emerging Artist Acquisitive Art Award in the National Works on Paper exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery; and shortlisted for the 2016 Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Adelaide Perry drawing prize 2017 and the Dobell Drawing Prize 2019. Lily Mae also contributed to The Drawing Board – a four part segment exploring drawing on Radio National, The Arts Program in 2022.
Lily Mae creates her drawings with fine liner ink pens, her work is characterised by delicate and detailed cross-hatching. She is represented by Scott Livesey Galleries, Armadale, and currently resides in Regional Victoria.
Lily Mae Martin, ( b. 1983, Australia )
lilymaemartin@gmail.com | lilymaemartin.com
Represented by Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
Education:
Victorian College of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drawing 2008
Selected Exhibitions:
2022:
VENERATION – 8th Oct – 22 Oct, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, AUS
Familial with artists Jo Lane, Lily Mae Martin, Snehargo Ghosh & Janelle Low. 23rd Sept – 23rd Oct Divisions Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
2021:
Summer, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne AUS
Twenty One, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne AUS
A World of One’s Own – A podcast series and exhibition. Curated by Tai Snaith featuring Tai Snaith, Lisa Waup, Elizabeth Gower, Katherine Hattam, Deborah Kelly, Fiona McMonagle, Sally Smart and Lily Mae Martin – Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, AUS.
2020:
SHE 2020 with artists Lily Mae Martin, Deanne Gilson, Nyaruot Ruth Ruach, Kumantjayi Nangala, Tai Snaith, Alana Hunt, Tiffany Parbs, Vonda Keji – 27th of Feb to 4th of April, Walker Street Gallery, Melbourne AUS
Overburden 3rd of Feb – 2nd of Aug, Eureka Centre, Ballarat AUS
2019:
Elucidate ( solo exhibition ) 27th of July – 17th of August, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne AUS
Dobell Drawing Prize, National Art School, Sydney AUS
2018:
Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Award, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland AUS
Works on Paper, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne AUS
2017:
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, SYD AUS
Summer Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne AUS
2016
The Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA) 2016, Grafton NSW
Drawing, All The Time ( solo ), Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, AUS
Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery AUS
National Works on Paper, MPRG AUS
Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat AUS
New Drawings ( solo ), Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne AUS
2015
Manning Art Prize, New South Wales AUS
The Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne AUS
2014
Twenty Fourteen, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne AUS
Benalla Nude, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla AUS
Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat AUS
2013
Personae, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne AUS
Big and Small – Paintings by Melbourne Artists, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne AUS
2012
Gallery One, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne AUS
Far From Home (solo), Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat AUS
Brutally Beautiful (solo), NEONCHOCOLATE Gallery, Berlin GER
2011
Lilacs Out of the Dead Land – Featuring works by Paul Torres, Casey Weldon, Richard J Frost, Sinae Park, Lily Mae Martin, and Dylan Sisson, WWA Gallery CA, USA
Awards & Scholarships:
Residency Geelong Grammar 2021
Residency Art Vault, Mildura 2018
Residency, Queenstown Tasmania 2017
Winner Ursula Hoff Institute Emerging Artist Acquisitive Art Award 2016
Commonwealth Education Scholarship 2008
Steve Cox Drawing Prize 2008
Lionel Gell Traveling Scholarship 2008
Ignition: NAVA Prize for Professional Practice 2008
Works held in private collections in Germany, USA, NZ, China and Australia