Blue Poles - Martin Munz
Martin Munz
Blue Poles, 2023
Oil on linen
610 x 760 x 35
$900
ARTIST STATEMENT: I intend my paintings as landscapes. They are meant to evoke 'dwelling', a quality of being there that results from the folding together of human history, land, and sky. My paintings intend to evoke issues beyond that of locality. I want to work through aesthetic pleasure by depicting our regional environment, land, and streetscapes. By painting street signage, light poles, and motor vehicles etc. I ask about where the physical and spiritual energy that powers our environment comes from, and where it might be going.
BIO: Martin Munz is a Northern Rivers based visual artist. He has worked as a university teacher and contemporary art space director at the University of the Northern Territory; the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide; the Tin Sheds, University of Sydney; and as an arts administrator at the Australia Council. Martin has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions as a photographer, video artist and painter including at KEITH, Murwillumbah, 2023, 2022 & 2021; Not a Pretty Picture, Lismore Regional Gallery, 2016; Landscape Paintings, Tweed Regional Gallery Cafe, 2014; Broula Landscapes, Sugar Beat Café, Murwillumbah, 2013; Drawings Tweed River Art Gallery Cafe, 2010; White Can Dreaming Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 1983; Underwater Photographs, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne and Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1981. His work is held in public and private collections in Australia and internationally, including the Australian National Gallery, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Charles Darwin University, NT and the Port Phillip Collection, Victoria.