In 2019 Lucille travelled to Rotorua on a hunch to iPhoneograph images of Geysers and Geothermal land for her future works in progress. In order for her to portray a new theme, Martin researches and writes in detail to investigate why this idea is coming up.

On this occasion Martin had been selected to present a paper and her artwork at the 2019 AAANZ conference taking place in Auckland in December. The conference paper related to the early Phd Provisional work  and methodology of Documentary Observational capture in Self-Portraiture with iPhoneography – Bedside (See Link)

Ahead of the conference Martin travelled to Rotorua after studying the ‘underlands ‘of earth formations like caves, geothermal springs, geysers, catacombs. Walking the Australian landscape provided insight into questioning the heating of land mass and Rotorua was the next chapter in her Photographic documentation. This series of images went on to be included in two major exhibitions Imaginery Territories at PSAS Fremantle, 2020, Landscape San Memoir at Photo-Access Gallery, Canberra 2020 and finalist in The Mandorla Artprize 2020.

Conceptually Martin’s work navigates or draws on a deeper understanding of identity, memory and place, meandering through past, and future timelines as documenter, conduit or witness to the temporal and impermanence of these delicate environments.

In Landscape Sans Memoir, Martin combines a multi-textual methodology of fusing photo-based iPhoneography and found image integrated with Adobe applications to reconfigure, erase and mirror changes or loss of landscape and territories imagined or reformed due to climate change or human activity.

In parallel her personal and found imagery of mountains, sea, fire and sub terrane are developed in single and layered panels printed and constructed on a mix of materials including  plexiglass, paper and textile. The final works present as wide panoramic assemblages wrapping around walls and spaces, in groupings or singles reflecting our fragmented world.

“This exploration and recontextualising in relationship of body to landscape and memory continues Martin’s long interest in the social psyche- in thoughts, feelings and behaviour influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of other.” ©LucilleMartin2021