1. Collateral Damage (1994)

Exhibited: 2014, Border Art Prize

Gallery: Tweed River Art Gallery/Gold Coast Art Gallery

1st PrizeWinner

Collateral Damage, a bold and brave work by Australian Artist Lucille Martin, took the major prize of $3,000. Using embroidery on Cloth, Lucille’s work is “ elegantly simple with a wonderful interplay between light and dark” and asks the viewer questions aboutpeace and the use of warfare during the Gulf war . The Border Art Prize at heldBiannually at The Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW and The Gold Coast Art Gallery, opened to a huge crowd of art lovers, artists, and friends on Friday evening.Three of our region’s most interesting artists were “ stunned and “ over the moon” when named as the winners of the three main prizes.

2. Women’s’ Tears (2006)

Exhibited: 2006, Chrysalis, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, NSW

Curator: Steven Alderton/ Kezia Geddes

Women’s Tears was created after Lucille’s recent trip to Bali working with Javanese and Balinese Women on embroidery and textile works. As they sat in her Seminyak studio residency working and hearing they described the tragic events of the Timor War. The work describes the massacres of women in Dili, Timor. Lucille used her favoured monogram technique and her signature long strands of thread to depict the hair of the women killed. This piece was curated by Steven Alderton and Kezia Geddes of Lismore Regional Gallery in theChrysalis Exhibition. The Exhibition was a 6 month program working with selected artists from The Northern Rivers Region and mentors from Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne’s premier galleries.

Exhibited: 2006, Prometheus Art Prize, All Saints Gallery, All Saints, Meriton

Highly Commended

Julie Ewington was theJudge for this award and gave Lucille Martin a commendation for the “simple yet highly emotional work using work and thread.”

3. Truth and Lies (2007)

Exhibited: 2007, Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby, NSW

Curator: Christine Wilcock

Christine Wilcock selected this work from Lucille’s signaturethread pieces. Each word and strand shared Lucille’s interpretation of lossafter she miscarried her second baby. The strands sewn into  the words onher dress fell onto a circular glass mirror sitting directly under the dress.

4. Buy it now (2009)

5. True Blue (2012)

Exhibited: 2012, Blue, Object Gallery, Sydney

True Blue was inspired by political action and inaction taken by the Labor Party and current leader,Kevin Rudd. “ Was he True Blue or Blue after the inablility to take action onClimate Change”

6. Happy Birthday, Unhappy Birthday (2015)

Exhibited: 2015, Artsource, Fremantle

Happy Birthday, Unhappy Birthday is a work inspired by the popular commercial Birthday Banner. Lucille is often a conduit for change offer the place of Art, Art work and material as a point of discourse between the public and the collective voice.Does society force us to be ‘Happy’? Happy Birthday, Happy Anniversary, Happy Easter, Happy Christmas, Happy New Year? What does it feel like to just be something else?