About the Presenter

Lily Mae Martin is a visual artist born in Melbourne. She graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2008 with a Bachelor of Fine Art majoring in Drawing. Lily Mae was awarded the Lionel Gell travelling scholarship and went to Berlin and Wales, where she spent a number of years refining her technical practice. Since returning to Australia, her work has been widely exhibited and highly commended in a number of prizes. Her recent exhibitions include Drawing, all the time (solo, 2016), Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, and New Drawings (2016), Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne. 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’s distinctive style is influenced by the mark-making of etching and the layering techniques of master printers and painters, characterised by delicate and detailed cross-hatching with a fine pen. She is represented by Scott Livesey Galleries, Armadale, and currently resides in Regional Victoria.

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