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John
Reid
As a visual artist John Reid works with the media of photography, collage
and performance. His artwork is concerned with issues of human rights and
the visualisation of landscape as a foundation of cultural identity. He
exhibits both nationally and overseas. His work also extends beyond the
traditional gallery space to engage the electronic and print mass media. He
collaborates with journalists in the broadcast of art images and events and
has sustained extensive coverage of two major projects - a collage work
using Australian bank notes that addresses political disappearances; and a
photographic based work titled 'The Fishman of SE Australia'.
He was a recipient in 1997 of an ANU Creative Arts Fellowship after several
years as an internationally recognized freelance graphic designer. The
Fellowship enabled his transition to the visual fine arts and led to a
lecturing position at the School of Art. John Reid has taught there ever
since.
As a visual art educator, he specialises in initiating collaborative
and interdisciplinary field research projects as providing
stimulus to students for the production of artwork, an opportunity
for professional engagement with community and, as a consequence,
excellent prospects for teaching/learning. He is also Co-Director
of the FieldScreen Research Project at the ANU that investigates
the use of digital technologies for the supervision of field
research in remote locations.
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Mandy
Martin
Mandy Martin was born 1952 in Adelaide and is a practising
artist who has held more than 100 solo exhibitions in Australia,
Mexico and the USA. She has exhibited widely in curated
exhibitions in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan,
USA, and Italy. Her works are in many public and private
collections including the National Gallery of Australia
and major state galleries and collections. In the USA she
is represented in the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Los
Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and many private collections.
She studied at the South Australian School of Art, 1972-75.
Since 1978 she has been a lecturer at the School of Art,
Australian National University and commutes to Canberra
from the Cowra region, NSW. She was recipient of 1995 Environment
Education Trust Grant, Minister for the Environment, New
South Wales, a 2000 Main Funding Round ACT Arts Program
Grant and a 2001 artsACT Creative Arts Fellowship.
Her work has always been concerned with the environment
and imaging identity and place. There is an extensive publication
list about her work including. Peripecia; the Salvator Rosa
Series, essay by David Malouf, introduction by Nancy Sever,
The ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, 2002. Writings by
the artist include; Martin, M. "Watersheds: the Paroo
to the Warrego", in People and rangelands: proceedings
of the VIth International Rangeland congress. V1 International
Rangeland Congress Inc, Australia, 1999, Martin, M. “This
El Dorado of pure recognition and desert of pure non - recognition”,
in Hamblin, A. (ed). Visions of Future Landscapes. Proceedings
of 1999 Australian Academy of Science Fenner Conference
on the Environment, 2-5 May 1999. Bureau of Rural Sciences,
Canberra, 1999 and Martin, M. “Introduction”,
in Inflows: the Channel Country, exhibition catalogue, Canberra
Museum and Gallery, Canberra, 2001.
She is the recipient of a 2002/3 Land & Water Australia
Community Fellowship Award to undertake “Land$cape: Gold
& Water: an interdisciplinary project in the Lachlan Catchment”.
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