Lily Mae Martin

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 72 Lily Mae Martin Lily Mae Martin is a remarkable visual artist known for her deeply personal explorations of womanhood, motherhood, and the human condition. Her own strength and resilience in the face of, at times, enormous challenges, is remarkable.She is celebrated for her masterful draughtsmanship, particularly her delicate and detailed cross-hatching using fine liner ink pens, building up thousands upon thousands of tiny lines to produce an incredible tone. After graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2008 and winning the Lionel Gell travelling scholarship, she spent years refining her practice in Berlin and Wales before returning to Australia. Her work has always been predominantly figurative, with a love of traditional portraiture approached in an unconventional way — seeking to capture people outside of the polished, self-conscious way they present themselves to a camera.She was a finalist for the 2016 Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Ballarat; winner of the 2016 Ursula Hoff Institute Emerging Artist Acquisitive Art Award in the National Works on Paper exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery; and shortlisted for the 2016 Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Adelaide Perry drawing prize 2017 and the Dobell Drawing Prize 2019. Lily Mae also contributed to The Drawing Board – a four part segment exploring drawing on Radio National, The Arts Program in 2022. Lily Mae (@lilymaemartin) is represented by Scott Livesey Galleries (@scottliveseygalleries) I referred in our conversation to the National Gallery of Victoria ‘Drop-by Drawing’ programme of which Lily Mae was a part. The link is belowhttps://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/multimedia/drop-by-drawing-with-lily-mae-martin/Head to the link in my bio to have a listen to our conversation.  Images1.   LMM supplied by artist2.   Orchid Medley 2025 ink on cotton paper 15 x 203.   Waterloo State Forest 2016 ink on paper 76 x 1054.   Nothing is Untouched (Moorabool) 2024 ink on paper 56 x 765.   Emerging