Lucille’s residency project at Vancouver Arts Centre is founded on a response to discovering the detailed B/W Landscape Photographs her father, Joseph Martin (deceased), captured in and around the spectacular Great Southern and Albany Region of Western Australia between the 1940’s and 1950’s.

“The small collection of images depict the beauty and detail of the natural landscape, striking ocean views, vegetation and many of the magnificent rock formations of the country he loved so much,” Lucille shares.

The VAC project is the final stage of an immersive year long program for Lucille, first inspired during a peer-awarded residency at Bundanon  Trust in New South Wales, 2019, followed by AIR programs at UTAS-CAM in Hobart and The Wilderness Gallery, Cradle Mountain, Tasmania.

The broader aspects of the year-long program of work explore notions of identity, memory and place in the Australian landscape, Lucille’s recent imagery has emerged through her iPhoneography process of ‘walking the materiality of capture’, to find new visual perspectives of landscape and nature in relation to the recent fires in Australia and Climate Crisis.

Vancouver Arts Centre AIR links the four residency projects connecting the farthest Southern points of East and Western Australia. Read more

Photo credit : The Gap Albany, WA by Lucille Martin 2018, holding the original  B/W image  titled – The Gap Albany, WA by Joseph C. Martin (c.1940-50)

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