Image above: Deborah Williams The air smells different 2023 aquatint intalgio 53×39.5cm
Congratulations to Deborah Williams, Martin King and Phillip Edwards who have been selected as finalists in the 2024 Pro Hart Outback Art Prize!
The exhibition of the finalists’ work will open Friday 9th August at Broken Hill City Art Gallery,
and will be showing until October 27th.
The Pro Hart Outback Art Prize is an acquisitive competition showcasing work in any media which reflects the spirit and diversity of the Australian Outback.
You can see the full list of finalists on the Broken Hill City Art Gallery’s website
Image above: Martin King false ornithology, the mungo diaries III 2024 etching, relief etching, wax, hard cover books, ribbon 85cm x 85cm x 5cm
Image above: Phillip Edwards Bimbowrie vista 2024 mixed media 90x115cm
Image above: Marina Strocchi The vineyards of Madden’s Lane 2023 acrylic on linen 122 x 152 cm
Congratulations to Kate Hudson, Martin King, Robin Stewart and Marina Strocchi who have been selected as Finalists in the 2024 Omnia Art Prize
The Omnia Art Prize & Exhibition
24 – 26 May 2024
Opening Gala and Announcement of Winner
Friday 24 May 7pm – 10pm
Smith Hall, St Kevin’s College
Moonga Road Toorak, VIC
This year’s prize will be judged by curator, writer and lecturer, Dr Rebecca Coates, Director of Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA).
Works exhibited are for sale, with proceeds from the event going to the St Kevin’s College Foundation to support the education of students in need or students experiencing hardship.
Image above: Robin Stewart Discovering Horus 2023 oil on linen with collage 97 x 92 cm
About the Omnia Art Prize and Exhibition
The Omnia Art Prize and Exhibition is an annual prize, open to established and emerging Australian contemporary artists, with all exhibited artworks for sale. Vibrant, culturally-rich and thought-provoking, the hundreds of artworks on display reflect the best of Australian contemporary art across mediums from oils, acrylics, drawing, photograph, mixed media to small sculptures.
Bringing together communities and artists across a full weekend of exhibition and events, the Omnia Art Prize and Exhibition champions contemporary artists at every stage of their careers, fostering connections among creators, designers, buyers, and art enthusiasts. It is a dynamic platform for the exchange of ideas and inspiration, enriching the cultural landscape with diverse perspectives and artistic expressions.
Above image: Martin King Dawn chorus, momento mori N.D. etching, liftground aquatint, spitbite, photopolymer intaglio, chine colle and wax 101 x 130 cm
Above image: Martin King Thinking about ledger of the lost N.D. photopolymer gravure, hardcover book and ribbon
Above image: Kate Hudson Grevilleas & banksia edition 35 2021 reduction linocut 26 x 22 cm
Above image: Kate Hudson Proteas and billy buttons edition 35 2020 reduction linocut 26 x 22 cm
Above image: Kate Hudson Scarlet banksia & bottlebrush edition 35 2021 reduction linocut 26 x 22 cm
Martin King ledger of the lost years ‘24 and ‘25′ N.D graphite, watercolour and gouache on drafting film and paper 100 x 150 cm
Congratulations to Martin King –
Finalist in the The 2024 Alice Prize with his beautiful work, ledger of the lost years ‘24 and ‘25′.The Alice Prize is an acquisitive national contemporary prize that celebrates artists working in any medium or theme from across the nation.
Significant among regional art prizes, the prize contributes to one of the largest regional collections of Australian art, with works by leading artists from across its over 50 year history.
The Alice Prize collection is a notable part of the Araluen collection and is drawn on frequently for exhibitions.The Alice Prize Exhibition is now open to the public at the Araluen Arts Centre, Mparntwe/Alice Springs until 12 May 2024.
View the exhibition online here
Read more about The Alice Prize here
To read more about Martin King and view a selection of available works, click here
Image above: Martin King in Morocco
“I have been wanting to revisit Morocco ever since my last trip in 2015. It’s such a remarkable country to travel around. One day you are in the High Atlas Mountains with spectacular views of valleys remote ancient villages, the next day you find yourself walking through a fertile Oasis in the shade of Palm trees or strolling through intoxicating and vibrant souks or market places, and then a day later you are in the spectacular Saharan sand dunes at sunrise then lounging on exotic Berber rugs in the nearby Riad or traditional Moroccan house for breakfast.” – Martin King
Artist Martin King has recently featured as a guest artist with Amazigh Art Tours, on a 14 day art tour across Morocco.
Perched on the North West tip of Africa, Morocco is endowed with a rich and complex
cultural history where the indigenous Amazigh (Berber) people maintain a strong connection with the land and their ancient traditions and lifestyle.The art tour was structured to finding a balance between site seeing and art making, some days involving guided tours, long drives through spectacular landscape and exploring the local villages, while other days more time was devoted to art-making.
Visit Amazigh Art Tours to read more about this art tour and future tours scheduled for 2024.
We are excited to announce that Martin King’s upcoming solo exhibition opens at Australian Galleries Melbourne on Tuesday 14 November 2023
Image: Martin King tree of life, diary of lost souls in twenty volumes No 2 2023 etching, drypioint, polymer gravure, hard cover books 125 x 115 cm
Congratulations to Martin King who has been awarded the major acquisitive prize in the 2023 WAMA Art Prize Works on Paper, for his exquisite work, ‘Tree of life, diary of lost souls in twenty volumes No 2’.
Martin King is one of Australia’s leading printmakers, his work evokes the impact of colonisation on our landscape and the fusing together of the past and present through the natural world.
‘This work embeds naturalist John Cotton’s illustrations of birds of the Melbourne district in 1840 into an etching of a hybrid tree, an English Elm and indigenous Peppermint Gum, both present in Fitzroy Gardens Melbourne. Past and present fuse, the work is both memoriam and a vision for future eco-diversity.’ – Martin King, 2023
The WAMA Art Prize, Works on Paper, is a biennial national award. Inviting a multi-disciplinary range of nature-inspired Australian artists, the award celebrates the connectivity with nature and raises awareness of the importance of conserving our precious, unique Australian environment.
Over 300 artworks were entered in the 2023 WAMA Art Prize and the 50 finalists are represented in this exhibition.
The WAMA Art Prize is now showing at the Ararat Gallery TAMA (Textile Art Museum Australia)
82 Vincent Street, Ararat VICV until 19 November and can be viewed online here.
Voting is now open for the People’s Choice Award via the online exhibition.
To read more about Martin King and view a selection of the artist’s work, click here
Martin King at his studio.
Filmmaker Peter M Lamont has created a documentary focusing on the art practice of Martin King, titled Preservation.
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.
Watch the documentary below, or find a link to the documentary here.
Image above: Martin King diary of lost souls, pages 21-22 2022 graphite and watercolour on drafting film and paper 220 x 130 cm.
Artists, printmakers and art lovers are invited to join renowned artist and master printer Martin King on a journey through Morocco with Amazigh Cultural Tours from 14 – 28 October 2023.
This 14-day holiday tour will traverse a large part of southern Morocco, from the ancient city of Marrakech over the High Atlas Mountains to the edge of the Sahara, during which participants are invited to sight-see and make art.
Martin King in the studio.
Traveling with like-minded people and an experienced team of co-hosts including Australian artist and curator Rita Lazauskas and professional Amazigh Guide Abdenabi Imelouane, the program offers an innovative and creative way to explore a new place that is stimulating, supportive and safe.
Martin King trials an ancient olive press for printing in the Skoura Oasis.
“The aim of our tour is to capture the spirit of each place visited with simple and direct means – drawing, watercolour, collage and printing by hand on to paper that we develop into a journal or artist book that will reveal your own personal experience of Morocco and the places we visit.” – Martin King
Martin King strangerlands #1 graphite on drafting film, watercolour on paper, gouache, metal foil 148 x 226 cm.
“I have been wanting to revisit Morocco ever since my last trip in 2015. It’s such a remarkable country to travel around. One day you are in the High Atlas Mountains with spectacular views of valleys remote ancient villages, the next day you find yourself walking vibrant souks or market places, and then a day later you are in the spectacular Saharan sand dunes at sunrise then lounging on exotic Berber rugs in the nearby Riad or traditional Moroccan house for breakfast.” – Martin King
Martin King lake hindmarsh project installation 2011 etching, painting and fallen branches variable dimensions.
Martin King’s wide-ranging art practice is underpinned by an abiding interest in the Australian landscape through drawing and printmaking. He has held exhibitions both nationally and internationally, with over 50 solo exhibitions in Australia. He has won several major awards, including most recently the Hazelhurst Works on Paper Award 2022, Gallipoli Art Prize 2019, Muswellbrook Art Prize, and Works on Paper 2019. He is also the senior printmaker at Australian Print Workshop, a position he has held since 1994.
Contact Rita at Amazigh Cultural Tours for more information: info@amazighculturaltours.com, or learn more on the Amazigh Cultural Tours website.
Image above: Martin King studies for diaries of lost souls 2023 graphite, watercolour, collage on drafting film on paper 100 x 150 cm (framed). Photographed by Matthew Stanton.
Congratulations to Martin King and Maryanne Coutts, who have been selected as finalists in the 2023 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing.
Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Sydney was honoured to welcome acclaimed artist, curator and writer Imants Tillers to Adelaide Perry Gallery to select this year’s Perry Prize shortlist. Entries for the $25,000 acquisitive award were received from across Australia from which 40 finalists were selected. Just prior to the opening of the Exhibition of Finalists, Mr Tillers will return to the Gallery to select the overall winner.
Maryanne Coutts August Moon 2022 animated ink drawing dimensions variable.
On her work, Maryanne Coutts says: “As moments, weeks and years pass me by, I work on various drawing projects to explore the fluidity of change that unravels inside the events of my life. Every day since April 2013 I have made a drawing loosely based on what I wear each day. In 2022, these became more concerned with the atmospherics that I inhabit rather than my clothes.
“In April, the rain seeped into my daily gouache and collage drawings and in August I made it a point to look at the moon every day, this time recording my observations in ink on paper. I then animated these lunar observations.”
Animation of August Moon 2022.
Opening and Winner Announcement: Friday 24 February, 7pm
Exhibition of Finalists, 2023 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing
Adelaide Perry Gallery
Cnr College Street, Hennessy Street, Croydon NSW 2132
24 February – 24 March 2023
Image: Martin King tree of life, diary of lost souls in twenty volumes, No. 1, etching, drypoint, spitbite, chine-collé, hard-cover books, UNIQUE, 112 x 120 cm
Martin King’s exquisite work tree of life, diary of lost souls in twenty volumes, No. 1 is included in the upcoming CLIMARTE group exhibition TREE.
CLIMARTE is mounting an exhibition of artwork depicting and communicating the lives of City of Melbourne trees. Trees face a dangerously warming world, among other threats. Life has a layered dialogue with trees in the city context. Trees in urban settings have circumstances not experienced by trees in non urban environments.
Offering shade, oxygen, habitat, comfort, beauty and more, day in day out, year after year, the City of Melbourne’s 70,000+ trees are an extraordinary, silent ‘asset’.
CLIMARTE called for artworks of and about a tree; a tree from the City of Melbourne’s celebrated Urban Forest project.
Using the City of Melbourne’s Urban Forest Visual as a guide, artists were invited to create a work that honours and advocate for a particular tree living in the City of Melbourne.
Exhibition Opening:
Tuesday 11 October 6pm
Fortyfivedownstairs
45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
‘I have chosen to work within the Fitzroy Gardens, a location I have spent much time wandering, pondering and passing through, actively and passively!
I have concentrated on two trees, Corymbia, Lemon Scented Gum, (tree ID: 1040279) and Fraxinus, English Ash, (tree ID: 1040597) in the NE and E part of the gardens.
The work will bring these trees together, a hypothetical hybrid, half Gum, half Ash Both are mature and substantial trees.
Fitzroy Gardens were established in the 1800’s, originally set aside as a reserve in 1848.
My interest is in the gardens is as a sight and haven for urban wildlife.
The work is an etching of the trees, the right-hand side of the work is the Gum, the left-hand side, the Ash. It is presented as a series of hardcover books laid out as double page spreads, which will reveal the splendour of both trees.Embedded within the etching are pages from the diary of John Cotton (1802-1849), a naturalist and pastoralist in Victoria. His journals are beautifully illustrated with bird species found in the Port Phillip region at time the Fitzroy gardens were founded. My work is a reflection of habitats and the species that inhabit them, past and present.
My hope is that the Fitzroy Gardens and the significant initiative of the City of Melbourne Urban Forest, will continue to support a sight and haven for wildlife and plant biodiversity into the future.’
– Martin King, 2022
Image: Martin KING once willing, NOT NOW 2022 graphite, watercolour, pigment, gouache on drafting film and paper 108 x 86 cm
Congratulations Martin King who has been announced the Winner of the 2022 Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery National Print and Drawing Award for his exquisite drawing once willing, NOT NOW.
The exhibition of finalists is current at the Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery until Sunday 20 November.
For further information, click here
‘Stamps carry messages embedded in their usage and imagery. The stamp is a mark of authority, a tax posing as art employing symbolic messages which governments seek to convey to their citizens and to the world.
Stamps are products or `windows’ of the state that illustrate how it wishes to be seen by its own citizens and those beyond its boundaries. They reveal messages the state considers most important.’ – Martin King, 2022
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