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Mandy
Martin was born 1952 in Adelaide and studied at the South
Australian School of Art, 1972-75. Between1978 – 2003 she was a
lecturer at the School of Art, Australian National University and
then a Fellow there between 2003- 06. She is currently an Adjunct
Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian
National University.
She is an
artist who has held numerous solo exhibitions in Australia, Mexico
and the USA as well as being in curated group exhibitions in
Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, USA, and Italy. Her
works are in many public and private collections including the
National Gallery of Australia, major state galleries and
collections. In the USA she is represented in the Guggenheim
Museum, New York.
AUSTRALIAN GALLERIES
Mandy
Martin joins Australian Galleries, Sydney. Mandy Martin is
consolidating her exhibiting profile by showing with
Australian
Galleries Melbourne and Sydney.
 
Desert Channels is a
book that combines art, science and history to explore the ‘impulse to
conserve’ in the distinctive Desert Channels country of south-western
Queensland. The region is the source of Australia’s major inland-flowing
desert rivers. Some of Australia’s most interesting new conservation
initiatives are in this region, including partnerships between private
landholders, non-government conservation organisations that buy and manage
land (including Bush Heritage Australia and the Australian Wildlife
Conservancy) and community-based natural resource management groups such as
Desert Channels Queensland.
Conservation biology in this place has a distinguished scientific history,
and includes two decades of ecological work by scientific editor Chris
Dickman. Chris is one of Australia’s leading terrestrial ecologists and
mammalogists. He is an outstanding writer and is passionate about
communicating the scientific basis for concern about biodiversity in this
region to the broadest possible audience.
Libby Robin, historian and
award-winning writer, has co-ordinated the writings of the 46 contributors
whose voices collectively portray the Desert Channels in all its facets. The
emphasis of the book is on partnerships that conserve landscapes and
communities together. Short textboxes add local and technical commentary
where relevant. Art and science combine with history and local knowledge to
richly inform the writing and visual understanding of the country.
Conservation here is conceived in four dimensions: place,
landscape, biodiversity and livelihood. These four parts
each carry four chapters. The ‘4x4’ structure was conceived by acclaimed
artist, Mandy Martin, who has produced suites of artworks over three
seasons in this format with commentaries, which make the interludes between
parts. Martin’s work offers an aesthetic framework of place, which shapes
how we see the region.
Desert Channels explores
the impulse to protect the varied biodiversity of the region, and its
Aboriginal, pastoral and prehistoric heritage, including some of Australia’s
most important dinosaur sites. The work of Alice Duncan-Kemp, the region’s
most significant literary figure, is highlighted. Even the sounds of the
landscape are not forgotten: the book includes a CD by Alaskan radio
journalist Richard Nelson talking to ecologist Steve Morton at Ocean Bore in
the Simpson Desert country. The twitter of zebra finches accompanies the
interview.
Conservation can be accomplished in various ways and Desert Channels
combines many distinguished voices. The impulse to conserve is shared by
local landholders, conservation enthusiasts (from the community and from
national and international organisations), Indigenous owners, professional
biologists, artists and historians.
WEBSITE:
http://environmentalhistory-au-nz.org/desert-channels/
To order:
http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/21/pid/6406.htm
Desert
Channels Launches 24 September Longreach, 27 September Bourke, 22
October Canberra, 12 August
Sydney, 20 October Launceston
12
August, University of Sydney, details to be advised
24
September, Longreach.
Bruce Scott, Mayor of the Barcoo Shire and DC contributor, will launch the
book at the Hugh Sawry Gallery, Stockman’s Hall of Fame, 6- 8 pm, September
24, (e- invitations pending)
27
September, Bourke
Geoff Wise, General Manager
Bourke Shire Council, will launch the book at the Back O’
Bourke café at the BBQ event on Monday 27 September for the “Rain on the
Rangelands” conference, Bourke.
20
October, Launceston
A launch by Kate Rigby at the opening of the Biannual Conference of
The Association for the Study of Literature, Environment, Culture (Australia
and New Zealand), which
will feature sounds of the Desert Channels in
Launceston,
Tasmania 20 October 2010. Details
of the conference, the theme of which is <<Sounding the Earth: Music,
Language, Acoustic Ecology>>, are online:
http://www.asle-anz.asn.au/
22
October, National Museum of
Australia.
The Big Wet: Art, Science
and History collaborate in Desert Channels Country
One of Australia's best known artists,
Mandy Martin, together with historian
Libby Robin and zoologist
Chris Dickman
will join Guy Fitzhardinge,
deputy chair of Desert Channels Queensland, to explore the impulse to
protect the country where Australia’s desert rivers rise. At a time when
Lake Eyre is filling fast, and biodiversity is booming, they discuss
conservation partnerships in Desert Channels Country and display new art and
writing about the region.
Bookings essential -
rsvp@nma.gov.au
Free.
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Friday 22 October
Visions Theatre,
National
Museum of
Australia
Canberra
0200
Mandy Martin Gallery Desert Channels
Read
Mandy's blogs at
Wordpress and
LinkedIn (please note you need to be a member of LinkedIn to
view this page)
See more of Mandy's work
at the
Nevada Museum of Art, Art & Environment
More about Mandy at
The Australian National University, The Fenner School of
Environment & Society
See Mandy in this issue of
Art Monthly Australia, Summer 2009
Read Erin O'Dwyer's article
in The Sun Herald "For Love and a Sunburnt Country"
Pennyroyal, Part 1,
Pennyroyal, Part 2
Australian Galleries,
35 Derby St, Collingwood 3066
AG Derby St Catalogue
Australian Galleries,
50 Smith St, Collingwood 3066
AG Smith St Catalogue
"Wanderers in the Desert of the Real, Part I"
Check out "Wanderers in the Desert of the Real, Part I" on Art + Environment.
William L Fox is Director for the Centre for Art and Environment at the Nevada
Museum of Art.
Visit
his blog here.
"Wanderers in the Desert of the Real, Part II"
Check out "Wanderers in the Desert of the Real, Part II,
Latrobe Valley"
on Art + Environment.
Visit William L Fox's blog
here.
NEW MELBOURNE GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Australian Galleries
FIRST EXHIBITION WITH AUSTRALIAN GALLERIES NOVEMBER 17, 2009
Violent Ends: The Arts of Environmental Anxiety
The Violent Ends event is now published online:
http://www.nma.gov.au/violent_ends/
The website includes transcripts, images, video and audio recordings. The NMA
has also developed a podcast of the entire day which will be available via its
Audio on Demand section on the site from next week (ie all the audio compiled
into a single file).
The main link from the Museum's website is:
http://www.nma.gov.au/research/
FENNER SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
Australian & New Zealand Environmental History Network
http://fennerschool-associated.anu.edu.au/environhist/
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