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John Bokor
Andrew Christofides
Elisabeth Cummings
Jayne Dyer
Robert Eadie
John Edwards
John Elliott
Rachel Ellis
Gail English
Paul Ferman
David Floyd (Estate)
Salvatore Gerardi
Jon Gintzler
Frank Hinder (Estate)
Robert Hirschmann
James Jones
Jan king
Martin King
Idris Murphy
Peter O'Doherty
Amanda Penrose Hart
Jenny Sages
Wendy Sharpe
Simon Strong
Kensuke Todo
Shona Wilson
John Turier
The Crossing by Night

The Crossing by Day and Night

The Crossing Study

The Crossing by Day 2

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Martin King

Born1957 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  
Studies & Work
  
1996-2002Master of Fine Arts, Monash University, Gippsland, Victoria
1989-presSenior Printmaker, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
2000Invited to conduct printmaking workshops in Manila, Philippines
Invited to work on aboriginal community arts project, Millijidee, Western Australia
Speaker-Artist Talk, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Speaker-Third Australian Print Symposium, Canberra
1996Invited to work with Aboriginal artists on printmaking project, Jilamara, Melville Island, N.T.
1994Artist in Residence, Teenage Roadshow Company, Kimberleys
1993-94Part-time Lecturer-Printmaking, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1990Part-time Lecturer-Printmaking, Victoria College, Melbourne
1989Artist in Residence, Teenage Roadshow Company, Outback, NSW
1988-89Consultant-Art Installations, New Parliament House, Canberra
1988Artist in Residence, Teenage Roadshow Company, Outback NSW, Qld & NT
1986-87Part-time Lecturer- Graphic Investigation, Canberra School of Art, ACT
1985Part-time Lecturer-Lithography and Etching, Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education
1983Artist in Residence, M. Karolyi Foundation, Vence, France
1982Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
1982Part-time tutor-Printmaking, Sydney College of the Arts
1980-81Part-time tutor-Drawing and Painting, Darwin Institute of Technology, Darwin
1976-78Graduate Diploma (Fine Art and Design), Caulfield Institute of Technology, Melbourne
  
Solo Exhibitions
  
2007South Georgia – Sub Antarctica’ , King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
South Georgia – Sub Antarctica’ , James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2005New Work, King Street Gallery on Burton
Plain Song, Port Jackson Press Gallery, Melbourne
2003First Rain: Recent Work King Street Gallery at Span Galleries, Melbourne
First Rain: Recent Work, King Street Gallery on Burton
2002Recent Work, Lake Gallery, Paynesville, Victoria
2001Recent Work, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
Recent Work, Stephen Mcauchlan Gallery, Melbourne
Antipodes Gallery, Sorrento, Melbourne
Masters Exhibition, Mass Gallery, Melbourne
2000Geodesy, Span Gallery, Melbourne
Recent Works on Paper, Motoworks Gallery, Melbourne
1999Recent Works on Paper, King Street Gallery on Burton
Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
1998An Installation of Paintings, St Stephens Church, Richmond
Footnote, Allison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne
1997Stephen McLaughlan Gallery
King Street Gallery on Burton

Adelaide Central Art Gallery, Adelaide
Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
1995King Street Gallery on Burton
1994Gallery Rhumbarallas, Melbourne
Adelaide Central Art Gallery
Recent Prints, East Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne
1993Launch of artist's book - Seven Songs Seven Etchings, Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne
1986Dorretts Gallery, Canberra
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
1984Galleria La Sirena, Barcelona, Spain
Tartessos' Galleria, Cadaques, Spain
1983 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1982Robin Gibson Gallery
  
Selected Group Exhibitions
  
2007Printed, Warrnambool Art Gallery
2006Last Show of the Year, King Street Gallery on Burton
Salon De Montsalvat Montsalvalt Gallery, Melbourne
South Georgia Sub Antarctica, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney
South Georgia Sub Antarctica, Mars Gallery Melbourne, Broken Hill Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Gallery (First prize)
2005Last Show of the Year, King Street Gallery on Burton
Altitude, Sheparton Art Gallery, Sheparton, Victoria
MLC Acquisitive Art Exhibition, MLC Melbourne
2004Impressions 2004, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Contemporary Australian Prints From The Collection, AGNSW
Collectors Exhibition, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
Altitude, Dantesc Upstairs Gallery, Melbourne
2004 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery
MLC Aquisitive Art Exhibition, Methodist Ladies College,Melbourne (Acquired)
Recent Acquisitions, Deakin University Art Collection, Stonington Stables Museum of Art
Practice in Progress, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne
23, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
2004 Artist for Kids, Jackman Gallery, Melbourne
Melbourne Affordable Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
Drawing Dust/Altitude, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne
2003Drawing Dust, Span Galleries, Melbourne, Australia &, Redgate Gallery Beijing, China & John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
b McGivern Art Prize, Maroondah Gallery, Melbourne
Australian Works on Paper Fair, Sydney
Geodesy: Carleton Digital Arts Festival 2003, Bilou Art Gallery, Carelton College, Minnesota,USA
R M McGivern Art Prize, Marooondah Art Gallery, Melbourne
Asia Print Adventure, Hokkaido Museum of Contemporary Art, Saporro, Japan
People in a Landscape, Contemporary Australian Prints, Manege Exhibition Hall, St Petersburg, Russia, United Nations, Geneva, Cannakale State fine Art Gallery, Turkey
MLC Aquisitive Art Exhibition, Methodist Ladies College,Melbourne
2002People in a Landscape, Contemporary Australian Prints, Chiang Mai University and Art Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand, German Foreign Office, Berlin
Terrain, Upstairs Gallery, Melbourne
King Street Gallery on Burton at Span Gallery, Melbourne
Artist's Books, Stables Galleries, Deakin University, Melbourne
Exhibition, Motorworks Gallery, Melbourne Grammar School
2001New Wave, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Regional Gallery Sydney
Some Artist's Books, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
People in a Landscape, Contemporary Australian Prints, Travelling exhibition to Singapore, Thailand and Sri Lanka
Minutiae, Australian Print Workshop
Art by Gum, Herring Island, Melbourne
Exquisite Corpse, City of Monash Art Gallery, Melbourne
2000Melbourne Art Fair 2000, King Street Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
In Passing, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
People in a Landscape, Contemporary Australian Prints, Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth
Proof Positive, Gold Treasury Museum, Old Treasury Building, Melbourne
Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Art Gallery
The 15th Annual Asian Art Exhibition, Tainan Cultural Affairs Bureau, Taiwan
1999-2000We Are Australian, Travelling Exhibition, Australia Capital Cities
1999Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Art Gallery
Travelling Around, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
Australian Paper Art Awards Exhibition, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University
Australian Paper Art Awards Exhibition, Drill Hall Gallery, Aust. Nat. University
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery, Vic
Mapping our Countries, Djamu Gallery, Australian Museum, Sydney
Impressions, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Last Show of the Year, King Street Gallery on Burton
3rd Australian Paper Awards, George Adams Gallery, Melbourne
1999 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Skin Culture, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
The 4th Kochi International Triennial of Prints, Japan
Look Again, New Works on Paper, National Gallery of Vic, Melbourne
1998Australian Prints, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Transformations-The Fine Art Print and the Computer, RMIT Gallery
Australian Contemporary Art Fair 6, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Geelong Print prize (purchased), Geelong Regional Gallery, Vic
National Works on Paper Award, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Vic
Asia Print Adventure 1998, Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
A Flourishing Ecology, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart
A Fine Line, King Street Gallery, Sydney
Decalogue-A Catalogue of Ten Years of Australian Printmaking 1987-1997, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, Korea
Skin Culture, George Gallery, Melbourne; John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong; Creation Gallery, Beijing; Seni Dunia Centre, Bali
Made in Cuba, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Leviathan Building, Melbourne
1997Prints from the APW, British Museum, London; Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
8th International Biennial of Print and Drawing Exhibition, R.O.C. Taipei, Taiwan
Rena Allen Jones Print Award (purchased), Warrnambool, Vic
John Batten Gallery
King Street Gallery on Burton
Works on Paper, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, W.A
Australian Printmedia Awards, Casula Powerhouse, Campbelltown, NSW
Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Regional Gallery
Williamstown Festival Invitation Print Prize, Williamstown, Vic
1996Gallery Artists, King Street Gallery
Australian Printmaking in the 1990's, Australian Print Workshop
Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery Invitation Prize
International Artists Book Fair, Graham Galleries, Brisbane
International Artists Book Fair, Barbican Centre, London
A Four Art, West Space, Melbourne
Kids for Culture Trust Exhibition, George Gallery
Artists Books, Australian Print Workshop
1995Making Their Mark-Ten Artists from China, U.S.A. and Australia, Wan Fun Gallery, Beijing, China; Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
Wan Fung Gallery, Beijing, China, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
Bharat Bhavan International Biennale of Prints, Bhopal, India
NON, Greenpeace Fundraising Exhibition, Ether Ohnetitel, Melbourne
Halter of this World, installation, Roar Studios 2, Melbourne
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre
Alice Springs Invitation Art Award, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, N.T.
international/interstate, King Street Gallery on Burton
Past Its Shelf Life, Meridian Gallery
Nillumbik Invitation Art Award, Eltham, Vic
Partners in Print, Australian Print Workshop
Australia Felix, Benalla Arts Festival, Benalla, Vic
1994Conrad Jupiter's Gold Coast Invitation Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Australian Contemporary Art Fair 4, Melbourne Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Reinventing the Grid, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
Four New Artists, King Street Gallery on Burton
Blake Prize for Religious Art, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
Christmas Show, Meridian Gallery
King street Gallery on Burton, Sydney
1993Original Prints, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
Partners in Print, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
1992Transitional Times Plus, RMIT Gallery
Fleur Montgomery Gallery, Melbourne
1991Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre
1990Conflict of Interest, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
Diamond Valley Invitation Art Award, Melbourne
Mornington Print Prize, Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Vic
1989Diamond Valley Invitation Art Award
Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne
Beneath the Surface, selected works from the ARCO Coal Corp. Collection, touring Queensland
1988-8910:1 Print Project, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra; Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, Vic; Print Council of Australia Gallery, Melbourne; Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
1987Salon Coda, Bitumen River Gallery, Canberra
1986Time and Place, Canberra School of Art Gallery
1985Invitation Drawing Exhibition, Tokyo; Okinawa; Sunday City; Japan
1984Joan Miro International Drawing Prize, Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
1983Exposition, M. Karolyi Foundation, Vence
1982Exhibition 10, Print Council of Australia
1979Five Printmakers, Oz Print Gallery, Melbourne
1978Printmakers and Sculptures, Hawthorn City Art Gallery, Melbourne
  
Awards and Commissions
  
2006Works on Paper Prize, Salon de Montsalvat, Montsalvat Gallery
First Prize. Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill, NSW
2003First Prize. Inaugural R M McGivern Art Prize, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbornne
2002Arts Victoria Grant, Drawing Dust Exhibition
Print Commission, Crown Hotel Tower 2 Crown Casino, Melbourne
19993rd Prize, 4th Kochi International Triennial of Prints, Japan
19972nd Prize, Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre
1996Print Commission, Crown Hotel - Crown Casino, Melbourne
1995Honourable Mention, Bharat Bhavan International Print Biennale
1994Honourable Mention, Bharat Bhavan International Print Biennale, India
199112 drawings for Australian Labour Party Centenary (commissioned by the ALP), Australian Labour Party National Office, Canberra
1990Member Print Commission, Print Council of Australia
1983Visual Arts Board Overseas Studio, Owen Tooth Memorial Cottage, Vence
1978Arches Rives Works on Paper Award
  
Collections
  
Ansett Collection, Australia
Arco Coal Collection, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Artbank, Australia
Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Australian National Bank
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Allens Arthur Robinson, Sydney
British Museum, London, UK
Bharat Bhavan Museum, Bhopal, India
Carleton College Library, Minesotta, USA.
Chisholm Institute of Technology, Vic.
Deakin University Art Collection
Eltham College, Vic.
Education Department of Victoria
Faulding Collection
Geelong Regional Art Gallery, Vic.
Gippsland Art Gallery
James Hardie Collection, Sydney
Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Mackay Regional Art Gallery, Mackay
Maroondah Art Gallery
Macquarie Bank, Sydney
MLC, Melbourne
M Karolyi Foundation, Vence, France
Monash University, Vic
Mornington Penisula Regional Gallery
National Australia Bank
National Gallery of Victoria
Nillumbik Art Collection, Eltham, Vic.
Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences
Northern Territory University
Print Council of Australia
Queensland State Library
State Bank of NSW
Sydney College of the Arts
Tamworth City Gallery, NSW
University College of Southern Queensland
Victorian College of the Arts
Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Vic.
  
Selected Bibliography
  
2006Meacham, Steve: After the hunters, a gentle land, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 November
O’Brien, Mary: Paradise Regained, The Age, 1 August
Gill Harbant: Putting the seal on the wild wandering, The Melbourne Age
Smith, Damien: South Georgia Island, Exhibition Catalogue, Mars Gallery, July
2005Harding, Lesley: Plainsong, Exhibition catalogue, Port Jackson Press, September
Grishin, Sasha: Profiles in Print - Martin King, Craft Arts International, No 64 pg.58-60
Artists Exceed Expectations, Journal, 8 July
Backhouse, Megan: Galleries, The Age (Melbourne) magazine, Issue # 11, September
Field, Caroline: The Coming of the Rains, PrintmakingToday, International Magazine of Graphic Art, Vol 14, #2 2005
Makin, Jeff: Winter Collection 2005 Catalogue, Port Jackson Press, June
2004Wandjina @ Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Independent Review, 20 July
Crawford, Ashley & King, Martin: First Rain Series, The Sunday Age, 4 February
Prior, Cathy: Studio Collaborations, The Australian, 27 January
2003Artists Exceed Expectations, Journal 8 July
2002Going Over Old Ground, Coast to Coast Magazine, Spring Vol 3 Number 4
2001Timms, P.: Artists Taken to Book, The Age, 11 April
2000Smee, S.: The Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 11 March
Virgo, A.: People in a Landscape, exhibition catalogue, The Asialink Centre, University of Melbourne
Clabburn, A.: The Eagles Calligraphy, Geodesy exhibition catalogue
1999Cousins, Kerry-Anne: Muse, December
Grishin, S.: Many Exciting Uses of Paper, The Canberra Times, 20 November
Humphries, T. and Harding, L., Old Skins and New Ceremonies, The Australian Art Paper Awards
1998Bragge, Anita: Deep etched in time, The Herald Sun, 4 July, pg.109
Clabburn, Anna: Return with Interest, The Age, 23 December
Wardell, Michael: Skin Culture, catalogue - George Gallery
Kolenberg, Hendrik & Ryan, Anne: Australian Prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Palmer, Sheridan: Transformations-The Fine Art Print and the Computer, RMIT Gallery
Exhibition Commentary, Art and Australia, Vol 35 No 3
1997Naylon, John: Exhibition Review, Adelaide Review, October
Rena Allen Jones Print Award-catalogue-Warrnambool Art Gallery
Shell Fremantle Print Award-catalogue
Snell, Ted: Much more to life than politics, The West Australian, 5 September
Rooney, Robert: Art Review, The Australian, 18 April
McCulloch, Susan: Meditations on Landforms, Imprint, Vol 32 No 1
Grishin, Sasha: Australian Printmaking in the 1990's, Craftsman House Press
1996Megaw, Ruth: Images of ever-changing world, The Adelaide Advertiser, 5 January
1995Whelan, Terry: Exhibition Review, Asian Art News, September/October
Timms, Peter: Review, The Sun Herald, June
Rooney, Robert: Arts Review, The Weekend Australian, June
Clabburn, Anna: A gutsy dialogue kept in balance, Business Review Weekly, 19 June
Grishin, Sasha: Three Cultures, Art Monthly, No 81, July
Stewart, Paul: Taking a line on Asian Art, The Sunday Herald, 25 June
Guinness, Daphne: Gallery Slaves, Spectrum-the Sydney Morning Herald, 24 June
Venkatraman, Lakshmi: Bhopal makes its mark again, The Hindu, 28 May
Mangkaja Exhibition-catalogue, Magkaja Arts Resource Agency, Fitzroy Crossing
Virgo, Ann: From Fitzroy to Fitzroy Crossing, Imprint, Vol 30 No 1, Autumn
McCulloch, Susan: Asian Sculpture News, Vol 1 No 1
1994Lynn, Elwyn: The Weekend Australian, December
Exhibition Commentary, Art and Australia, Vol 32 No 2 Summer
Lynn, Elwyn: The Weekend Australian, November
Heathcote, Christopher: The Age, October
Weekend Review, Gold Coast Bulletin, September
Kent, Rachel: Reinventing the Grid, exhibition catalogue, August/September
Naylon, John: Exhibition Review, Adelaide Review, April
Taylor, Roger: Exhibition catalogue, Gallery Rhumbarallas, Melbourne
1990Commissioned Prints (supplement to Imprint), Imprint, Spring
1989Massey, John H.: Beneath the Surface, exhibition catalogue, Queensland Art Gallery
10 Years of Graphic Investigations, exhibition catalogue, Canberra
1988Four Recent Images, Unreal City, Vol 1 No 2
Artists Making Prints, catalogue, Print Council of Vic
1986Lynn, Elwyn: Exhibition Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, 30-31 August
Germaine, Max: Artist and Galleries of Australia & New Zealand
Dolan, David: Time and Place, exhibition catalogue, Canberra School of Art
1983The Printmakers, Art and Australia, Vol 21 No. 1
Exhibition Commentary, Art and Australia, Vol 20 No 3
1982McGrath, Sandra: The Weekend Australian Magazine, 14-15 August
Darby, Max: Printmaking, Education Department of Vic Australian Printmaking Directory, (Ed. Lillian Wood), Print Council of Vic
 

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