BIOGRAPHY
Martina Latimer’s oil paintings and prints investigate images capacity to speak for themselves. She draws on figuration, portraiture, landscape, and the indexical mark specifically in printmaking to give form to the ineffable. Informed by Jacques Derrida’s concept of the idiom, her work explores the tension between the singular and the universal.
Latimer’s practice resists forms of social alienation. Technological dependency and hyper-individualism are accelerating our modes of living. Latimer uses the materiality of paint to reclaim spaces for personal slowed down encounter.
Characterised by ambiguity and restraint, her work invites sustained attention. She creates images that hesitate. Photographic strategies such as zooming and cropping are wed with painterly techniques such as blur, translucency, and shifts in chroma. This visual hesitation disrupts the fast and superficial consumption of digital imagery. Her works are an invitation to a deeper mode of human engagement that is grounded in the presence.
CV
Education
2022 - ongoing
Bachelor of Visual Arts, Queensland College of Art & Design, Griffith University, Brisbane
2003 – 2008
Master of Business Administration, FHWien University of Applied Sciences, Vienna
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 - N/irgend-wo, Artspace Teneriffe, Jan Manton Gallery, Brisbane
2025 - Chapter Two: I and Thou – Notes to Self, Land Street Gallery, Brisbane
2025 - I and Thou – Notes to Self, Project Gallery, Griffith University Galleries, Brisbane
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
National Print and Drawing Awards, Art Gallery of Swan Hill, Swan Hill, Victoria
Between the Threads: Contemporary Textile Art, Creative Room Art Space, Brisbane
Just Relief, Impress Printmakers Studio & Gallery, Brisbane
Selbstsein, Limestone Gallery and Studios, Ipswich
Undergrowth, Griffith University Galleries, Brisbane
Selbstsein, Project Gallery, Griffith University Galleries, Brisbane
2025
Emerging Artist Exhibition, Wentworth Gallery Brisbane
Looking Forward // Looking Back, Parker Contemporary, Brisbane
Contemporary Portraiture, BMG Contemporary Issues Portraiture Competition, Brisbane, highly commented
Rotary Art Award,Brisbane Rotary Art Show, Brisbane
Milburn Landscape Prize, Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane
Emerging Artist Prize, Revival Art & Design Gallery, Brisbane
Hidden Gems, The Royal Queensland Art Society, Brisbane
Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2024
Second Rising, Grey Street Gallery, Griffith University Grey Street Gallery, Brisbane
2019
Here and There, Queensland Multicultural Centre, Brisbane
Group Exhibitions
2026
Open Studio, The Nest Creative Space, Brisbane
Sightlines, The Nest Creative Space, Brisbane
2025
Open Studio, The Nest Creative Space, Brisbane
In Conversation, The Nest Creative Space, Brisbane
Awards
2025
Turnbull Award, Griffith University, Brisbane selected finalist
BMG Contemporary Issues Portraiture Competition, Brisbane highly commented
Emerging Artist Prize, Revival Art & Design, winner People’s Choice Award
Work History - Arts and Cultural Sector
2025-
Exhibition Coordinator, Glass Box, Griffith Print Club, Volunteer
Founder of “Creative Kids West End”, Brisbane
Stimulus Art Workshop, Kelvin Grove State School, Brisbane
Resident artist at “The Nest Creative Space”, Brisbane
2024-26
Intern, Griffith University Art Museum
2015–20
Founder, Martina Latimer Textiles, London and Brisbane
Workshop facilitator: People Development, London Metropolitan University
Tutor, Contemporary Quilting, Arts & Crafts, Sutton College, London
Member of Muswell Hill Creatives, London
Workshop facilitator: Kids and adults sewing for all skill levels
Workshops facilitator: Hands on Art, Paddington
Chair of the board, Silk Shed Toowong
Work history - Corporate Sector
1998-13
Human Resources Management, Project Management, Event Management, Office Management
Bibliography
2019
How moving to Australia unlocked Martina Latimer's creative potential, The Art Show, ABC Radio, Brisbane
Artisan
2017
Art Gallery Fabrics
2016
New Patchwork Tutor True Trailblazer!, Sutton College News, London
2015 – 2017
Magazine features in The World of Interior, ELLE Decorations, and GQ