Victoria arts: Geelong Gallery hosts Mandy Martin exhibition
A 30-year friendship that began at a petrol station comes full circle in a celebration of the Australian artist’s legacy.
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A 30-year friendship that began at a petrol station comes full circle in a celebration of the Australian artist’s legacy.
A 30-year friendship that began at a petrol station comes full circle in a celebration of Mandy Martin’s legacy.
Mandy Martin, 1990. Photo: Anne Zahalka, National Portrait Gallery. THE Canberra visual arts community is mourning the death of one of its greatest painters, Mandy Martin, who died at Orange Base Hospital on Saturday (July 10) after a long battle with cancer. Martin, painter, printmaker and teacher with a larger-than-life personality and larger-than-life artworks, was born in Adelaide and studied at the South Australian School of Art from 1972 to 1975. She moved to Canberra, where she lectured in the Canberra School of Art at the Australian National University from 1978 to 2003. She was a Fel...