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Judith e Martin

Canadian artist Judith e 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.

The artist grew up on a large rural property in Northwestern Ontario ten miles from anywhere and believes that the solitude of long summers is how she discovered the inner dream world that is her subject.  For the last thirty years, Judy and her husband have continued to live far from the urban on Manitoulin Island in the Great Lake Huron.

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

2026        Water-Daughter                  Craft Ontario gallery, 401 Richmond street, Toronto, On                
2025        The Sky                               Art Gallery of Sudbury 174 Elgin Street June 17-Augsust 30
2024        Softer and Dreamier            Festival of Quilts Birmingham, UK 
                In the Middle of the World    ArtsPlace, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia Canada 
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 
2021        In The Middle of the World    Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte,Ontario  
2019        Beauty, Emotion,Spirit,Soul   One Sky Gallery, Sudbury, Ontario
2018        Cloth of Time                         Mary E Black gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia 
              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   

most recent group exhibitions

2025        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, New York,  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, Albany 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 catalogue for Renewal 
            Gallery in Print  Saqa journal December issue
2023    SAQA cataalogue for Minimalism 
            Among the Garbage and the Flowers  curated by Susan Avashai, published by MVTM
2024    Marking Time With Fabric and Thread  by Tommye McClure Scanlin, Schiffer 
2023    In the Middle of the World-  soft cover and digital catalogue,  
            Bayfield - Nares Inlet - Association members annual, feature article by Ginny LeVan
            Quilt National 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


Awards
2024  Gladstone House Award        Craft Ontario
2023  Schweinfurth Award              Quilts=Art=Quilts
2023   Handwork Award                 Quilt National
2022   Highly Commended             Fine Art Textiles Award
2019   Best of North                        Craft Ontario
2019    second place                        Quest Gallery Innovation 19
2017    Lynn Bergman Award for Surface Design    Quilt National
2017    Surface Design Association Award       Quilt National
Selected recent Teaching
2019   CSARN mentorship with Sophie Anne Edwards, Manitoulin Island
2018    Meditation Panels workshop, Elliot Lake Summer Arts 
2017    CSARN mentorship with Mariana Lafrance, Manitoulin Island. 
2016    Celebrating Our Circles - four separate one day workshops for the Canadian                          Embroiders Guild, London's 45th anniversary celebration    
           Cross My Heart - stitch collage one day workshop, Manitoulin Island Ontario
2015    Meditation Panels Workshop:   Part of Fibre Arts  Newfoundland
2011    Slow Art:  A weekend workshop. Fibreworks Kingston, Ontario
2008   The Power and Beauty of Hand Stitched Textiles:  a five-day workshop
            Canadian Embroiderer's Guild Summer Workshop


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. 
2923  Under Drifting Stars  Judith E Martin's recording for Quilt National on you tube. 

2023  Two artist presentations at the Muse in Kenora, May 12, a digital slide presentation about Judy's life and art practice, and on May 13, a walk through of In the Middle of the World alongside Penny Berens. 
 
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.

            Weave podcast with Judy Martin   May 2020      
  
             My Awakened Heart / My Pandemic Summer  originally for York Heritage Quilt Guild, 
            
            Mosaica SAQA Conference  March 2020  Handwork, Homework, Heartwork: Adventures in                 Long Distance Collaboration  Miranda Bouchard (curator) Judy Martin, Penny Berens.
  
2017     The Aesthetic of Simplicity, 2 minute you tube video, Quilt National 2017 
2016     Marking my place, a thousand walks, luminous halo path  walk and talk
             Elemental 2 Festival,  Kagawong 
Ontario  installation and performance 
             Go Slow, Stop Thinking  45th anniversary of Canadian Embroiders' Guild 
             It is an Honour to Make a quilt  Sudbury quilt and stitchery Guild
2014     Motherly Advice - keynote speech, Espanola Fibre Festival, Espanola Ontario
2013     Touch is the mother of the senses - Opening lecture, Mended World Exhibition,                     Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay Ontario
2012      Not Finished Yet - trunk show, Pomegranate Quilt Guild, Toronto Ontario
 Judy's artist talk at the opening reception Art Gallery of Sudbury 2013  mended world
Lucky Protection a video
Ontario    video of the exhibition  Lucky Protection  at Northern Art Gallery, 2014 Sudbury



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 Current
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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