Kirsty Martinsen
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2022 TwilightSync Australia Council for the Arts with Canada Council for the Arts
2019 Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) Talent Camp
2016-7 Diploma Live Production Design, Adelaide College of the Arts
2000-03 Diploma of Painting, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, NY
1989-92 BA Visual Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide
Awards
2021 Finalist Tatiara Art Prize, Border Town SA
2020 Aspire Award for The Arts Nominee, Victorian Supreme Court/Miranda Bain Foundation
2018 Mercedes Matter/Ambassador Middendorf Award NYSS Alumni Exhibition, NY
2003 Merit Award for Painting, NY Studio School
2001 Sally and Milton Avery Award
2001. Steve and Lety Swartz Scholarship
2000 Arts SA Scholarship to New York Studio School
2000. Dyason Bequest, Art Gallery of NSW
Grants
2023 ArtsSA Project funding for Stages 1-3 Creative Development of Bodiness: hands like wings
2018 FULL TILT SBS/ SA Film Corp Short Documentary Limited Surrender commissioned for SBSonDemand
2018. Richard Llewellyn Deaf and Disability Arts Access Grant
2017 Jo Bannon Performance Residency, Adelaide
2015 Australia Council for the Arts SYNC Leadership Training for Disabled Artists, Adelaide
2014 Richard Llewellyn Art and Disability Trust Project Grant
2010 Richard Llewellyn Art and Disability Trust Project Grant
2005 Bundanon residency
2002-3 New York Studio School Scholarship NY Studio School
2002. Chautauqua School of Art Residency Chautauqua, NY
2002. Theodore R. Colborn Scholarship
2002. The Chautauqua General Scholarship
Performance
2023 Bodiness: hands like wings. Free-range Residency at The Mill, July/August
2023 Bodiness: hands like wings. Adhocracy, Vitalstatistix August/September
2023 Bodiness: hands like wings. POP Gallery Sept
2022 Bodiness: embodiment dance with Erin Fowler to complete our call and response collaboration at The Mill
2022 Bodiness: call and response, The Mill Gallery, Adelaide
2017 Bodiness Showing, The Mill Breakout Space, Adelaide
2017 Jo Bannon Performance Residency, Adelaide
2017 Bodiness Showing ACArts, Adelaide
2017 Jérôme Bel’s GALA, Scott Theatre, Adelaide Festival of Arts
2016 Summer in Spring Written by Patricia Cornelius, Directed by Maude Davey for No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability, Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide Fringe Festival
Solo Exhibitions
2023 The Jabiru Series UCity Art Studio, SALA
2022 Bodiness: call and response dance-drawing collaboration with Erin Fowler
2020 Sunset Soirée intimate showing of my sunset drawings in my apartment, Adelaide
2020 Our Lady: en feu, The Mill Gallery, Adelaide https://www.themilladelaide.com/virtual-gallery-our-lady-en-feu
2018 Hindsight, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide
2015 Sleep, FELTspace, Adelaide
2007 My Red Shoes and The Loneliness Project, Adelaide
2002 Opposing Forces, Australian Consulate-General New York
2000 my emotional body, SEAS Gallery, Adelaide
1997 Blisters. Kodo, Amsterdam
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Apparent Divide, Praxis Gallery, Bowden
2021 Finalist Exhibition Tatiara Art Prize, Bordertown
2021 Showcase, Fleurieu Art House, McLaren Vale
2018 X Marks The Spot: Women of The NYSS, NYSS Alumni Exhibition
2018 HYTY? (Have You Tried Yoga?),The Mill Gallery, Adelaide. Curator
2016 Tender Thing, Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide
2014 Custom The Mill Resident Artists Show, The Mill Gallery
2014. Mt Gretna School of Art Benefit Auction, Lancaster Galleries, Pennsylvania USA
2011 SOL Recent work by Kirsty Martinsen and Georgia Thorpe, Hahndorf Academy
2008 Heysen Prize for Landscape Painting, Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf (Commendation)
2008. Stockroom show, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide
2007 Heysen Prize for Landscape Painting, Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf
2007 91.5 Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide
2005 Drawing is a Verb, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide
2004 Notation, NY Studio School Alumni Show, Parker’s Box Gallery. Brooklyn NY
2003 The Merit Show, NY Studio School, NY
Film Credits
2018 Writer/Director Limited Surrender, Documentary Commissioned by SBS on demand and SAFC through FULL TILT
2017 Creator Breathe (Winner Mercedes Matter/Ambassador Middendorf Award at NY Studio School Alumni Show)
1999 Art Department Attachment, CUT
1998 Art Department Love Story Pilot, London
Public Collections and Commissions
Tanner Mulller Poetry Zine Regurgitate
BaptCare Australia
Brooklyn Art Library, New York USA
Australian Consulate-General, New York USA
Hospital For Joint Diseases, New York USA
Bundanon Trust, Australia
Private Collections
Australia, UK, USA, Singapore, Amsterdam, Kuala Lumpur
Select Employment
2021-present Committee Member NAVA Disability Access and Inclusion Reviewer
2004-present Private Drawing Teacher at The Mill, Parkinsons SA, MS Society
2011-2019 Project Officer, Peer Coordinator, Workshop Coordinator and Volunteer Disability Arts Transition Team (DATT) / Access2Arts (A2A)
2015/16 Panel Member Richard Llewellyn Art and Disability, Community and Disability Art Organisations Arts SA
2008-2011 Workshop Co-ordinator/Administration Assistant Restless Dance Theatre
2006-2008 Community Visual Artist/ Arts facilitator NEAMI Northern Adelaide and UnitingCare Wesley Port Adelaide
2003 Stage Crew Columbia University Horan Mann Theatre
2003. Personal Assistant Sue Scott NY-based writer, art consultant and curator
2001-2003 Assistant Program Coordinator New York Studio School
2001 Studio Assistant to several NY-based Artists including Graham Nickson, Jane Hammond, Suzanne McClelland, Idelle Weber, Anita Thatcher
Press and Further Reading
“Transfiguring/Sleep” Caroline Reid for FELTspace December 2015
“Sunny Outlook” Adelaide Matters Magazine April 2011
‘Let The Sun Shine’ Adelaide Review April 2011
Radio Adelaide Arts Breakfast April 29 2011
Radio Adelaide interview with Stephanie Kabanyana SA Composers Symposium, June 15 2006
“Transcribing the Masters” Kirsty Martinsen, Artdate Oct/Nov 2004
“My Space (is an amazing place)” a short film about my life in Spanish Harlem, SBS TV Adelaide Jan 2004
“Creative Diaspora- Australian Artists in New York” Natalie Latham, Oct 2003
“Art and Life”, Kirsty Martinsen, Artstate Magazine issue 20
“Greetings From New York”, Kirsty Martinsen, Artstate Magazine issue 15
“Undiscovered Talents of Australian Art” Samela Harris, Australian Art Collector issue 12 April 2000
“My Emotional Body” David O’Brien, dbmagazine, issue 215 Feb 16 2000
“Body Language” Samela Harris, The Advertiser Feb1 2000
“New York Bound” Mel Hein, The Advertiser Feb7 2000
“My Emotional Body” John Chalmers, Rip It Up Magazine Jan 27 2000
“Emerging Artist Bound for New York” Artstate Magazine issue 13
“An Inaugural Twelve Months” Tony Kirkman, Art Monthly Australia Feb 2000
Radio 5UV Arts Breakfast Jan 27 2000
AM Adelaide, Channel 7 Jan 28 2000
“Art fails to paint out a shame image” Brady Haran, The Advertiser April 15 2000