Canadian artist Judith e Martin (Judy Martin) combines traditional hand
stitch, local natural dyes and used domestic textiles to connect us poetically
with our own interior worlds.
Her large format textiles are included in several Ontario
public art collections (Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Cambridge) as well as the
International Quilt Museum in the USA and the Canada Council Art Bank. Martin has exhibited her work internationally
and holds two BA degrees in fine art; one from Canada (Lakehead 1993
chancellors medal) and one from the UK (Middlesex 2012 first class honours.
Judy Martin thanks the Ontario Arts Council for encouragement and financial support.
Judy Martin won the Gladstone House Award at the Craft Ontario Awards 2024
Education
2012 First Class Honours, BA Embroidered Textiles, Middlesex University, London England
1994 Honours BFA, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay Canada, Chancellor’s Medal
solo and two person exhibitions (recent)
2026 Water-Daughter Craft Ontario gallery, 401 Richmond street, Toronto, On
2023 Northern Ontario World of Threads Festival, Oakville Ontario
Stardust Gore Bay Museum, Gore Bay Ontario
In The Middle of the World The Muse, Kenora, Ontario
Inside Out Homer Watson House, Kitchener, Ontario
The Cloud In Me World of Threads Festival, Oakville Ontario
2017 The Cloud In Me David Kaye Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2015 Mended World Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2017 The Cloud In Me David Kaye Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2015 Mended World Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
most recent group exhibitions
2025 Quilts=Art=Quilts Schweinfurth Art Centre, Auburn, NY, USA juriors Petra Fallaux, Paula Kovarik
Convergence Tom Thomson art galllery, Owen Sound, On. Jurors Kristine Moran, Martin Pearce and Jennifer Norman
Classics Reimagined online exhibition Surface Design Association curator Helen Adams Quilt Con Modern quilt Guild, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
2024 Quilts=Art=Quilts Schweinfurth Art Centre, Auburn, jurors Michael James, Dorothy Caldwell
Ontario Craft Award Recipients Ontario Craft Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (Gladstone Award) Exhibition in Print Saqa journal, December 2024 issue
Renewal SAQA Canadians, Homer Watson, Kitchener, On, Travelled to Kenora (the Muse) and Toronto (CQA conference) in 2025 juror David Kaye
2023 Quilts = Art = Quilts Schweinfurth Art Centre, Auburn New York, USA (Schweinfurth Award)
Minimalism Europeen du Patchwork, Alsace, France, (SAQA global) , travelled to Chicago Illinois USA in 2024, curator Dorothy Caldwell
Among the Garbage and the Flowers Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario curated by Susan Avashai
Quilt National Dairy Barn, Athens Ohio USA (Handwork Award)
2022 Evolve Propeller Gallery, Toronto, Ontario organized by Loree Ovens
Fine Art Textiles Award Shortlist Exhibition Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, Englandr and Knitting and Stitching Show, London, England and Yorkshire (Awarded Highly Commended)
The World We Know Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Recent Acquisitions.(Canadian Pioneer)
2021 Quilt National Dairy Barn, Athens Ohio and Mystic Museum of Art in Connecticut
2020 Visions Visions Art Museum San Diego California, online only (pandemic)
Online presentations and interviews
Publications
2025 Arc Poetry - Cover and featured photo spread summer 2025
2024 SAQA Renewal exhibition
Gallery in Print Saqa journal December issue
Marking Time With Fabric and Thread by Tommye McClure Scanlin, Schiffer
2023 In the Middle of the World- soft cover and digital catalogue, essay Miranda Bouchard
SAQA Minimalism exhibition
Garbage and Flowers essay Susan Avashai, Mississippi Valley Textile Museum
Quilt National 2023 catalogue
2020 Quilting Arts December 2020-Jan 2021 issue 108, feature article by Cate Prato
2020 Patchwork Gilde September 2020 issue 140, feature article by Uta Lenk (Germany)
2018 SAQA Art Quilts Unfolding
2018 Not To Know But To Go On, A Poem About Time by Judy Martin 6" x 6" booklet
2016 Art Quilts International: Abstracts and Geometrics by Martha Sielman, Schiffer.
2015 Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art Claire Wellesley-Smith, Batsord.
2014 500 Traditional Quilts curated by Karey Patterson Bresenhan, Lark Books
2013 Mended World, a catalog for the exhibition essay by Elizabeth Kalbfleisch, published by the Thunder Bay Art Gallery
2016 Art Quilts International: Abstracts and Geometrics by Martha Sielman, Schiffer.
2015 Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art Claire Wellesley-Smith, Batsord.
2014 500 Traditional Quilts curated by Karey Patterson Bresenhan, Lark Books
2013 Mended World, a catalog for the exhibition essay by Elizabeth Kalbfleisch, published by the Thunder Bay Art Gallery
Awards
2024 Gladstone House Award Craft Ontario
2023 Schweinfurth Award Quilts=Art=Quilts
2023 Handwork Award Quilt National 2023
2022 Highly Commended Fine Art Textiles Award
2019 Best of North Craft Ontario
2019 second place Quest Gallery Innovation 19
2018 Award of Excellence Craft Ontario
2017 Lynn Bergman Award for Surface Design Quilt National 2017
2017 Surface Design Association Award Quilt National
Recent Teaching (retired from teaching 2018)
2019 CSARN mentor
2018 Meditation Panels Workshop, Elliot Lake Ontario Summer Arts
2017 CSARN mentor
2016 Canadian Embroiders Guild, London. 45th anniversary celebration
2016 Stitch collage one day workshop, NEMI library, Little Current, Ontario
2015 Meditaiton Panels Workshop, Gros Morne, Newfoundland (Fibre Arts Newfoundland)
Selected recent Speaking
2024 The Aesthetics of Care - a youtube interview with Fibre Arts Take Two
2023 Turning Forever to the Heart - a recorded zoom presentation for Rue Pigalle about Judy's quilt/life.
2023 Under Drifting Stars Judith E Martin's recording for Quilt National on you tube.
2023 In the Middle of the World: Two artist presentations at the Muse in Kenora
2021 In The Middle of the World artist opening talk for the exhibition, September 29 2021 over zoom. Penny Berens and Judy Martin speak about how living close to nature informs their work for the exhibition, the question and answers were also recorded.
Permanent Public Collections
International Quilt Museum, Nebraska USA
Ontario Government
Canada Council Art Bank
Ontario Juried Show collection
Thunder Bay Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Sudbury
Idea Exchange: Cambridge Art Galleries Contemporary Fibre Art Collection
Judith Martin was Artist in Residence in her local community of Little CurrentInternational Quilt Museum, Nebraska USA
Ontario Government
Canada Council Art Bank
Ontario Juried Show collection
Thunder Bay Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Sudbury
Idea Exchange: Cambridge Art Galleries Contemporary Fibre Art Collection
Manitoulin circle project 2009 - 2013
Gallery Representation
Guildworks, Bloomfield, Prince Edward Country, Ontario
Perivale Gallery Spring Bay Manitoulin Island Ontario Canada
David Kaye Projects, Toronto, Ontario Canada
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