Martin King’s wide-ranging art practice is underpinned by an abiding interest in the Australian landscape, most visibly by making connections between land, sea and air.
King’s earlier works on paper traced the movement of rain shadows and the effect of weather patterns across undulating terrain and vast tracts of desert. His more recent works express the fragility of our relationship with nature using creatures of the sky as simple motifs that convey a paradoxical vision of the Australian landscape as both tranquil and unsettling.
Martin King’s works are held in numerous corporate collections, 17 regional gallery and university collections and four state galleries in Australia plus collections in the USA, UK and India. Martin King occupies an important place in printmaking in Australia, and is acknowledged widely as one of the leading printmakers in the country. He is also the senior printmaker at Australian Print Workshop, a position he has held since 1994.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Image: Dale Miles, Extruded Thought, 2019, paperpulp, gesso, hydrocal, timber, silverpoint, graphite, 12 x 50 x 28 cm Congratulations to …
Congratulations to Martin King (Winner) alongside Michelle Hiscock and Rodney Pople (finalists) in the 2019 Gallipoli Art Prize In its …
Image: Rodney Pople, Goulburn War Memorial at 3:00am (2018), oil and tempera on linen, 140 x 180 cm. Congratulations to …
Image: Cameron Hayes, The fight between Moomba and Lent (2019), oil on linen, 198 x 254cm ‘You can’t have Carnival …
Image: Deborah Williams, Exposed (2019), UV inkjet print on aluminium from photograph taken by the artist, 110 x 146 cm …
Image: Geoffrey Ricardo, Mindsets (2007), intaglio print, edition 40, 14.5 x 21cm Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop have recently opened their …
