Martha
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| Introduction | Martha McDonald makes performances and installations that feature handcrafted costumes and objects, which she activates through movement and song. She often develops site-specific interventions grounded in deep research into collections, archives, and historic material practices; and in response to the physical site. She has developed work in historic house museums, botanic gardens, a Victorian cemetery, a construction waste recycling facility, and small boat journeying down a river. Her work has shown internationally at Brotfabrik, Berlin; Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Australia; Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney; the Tamworth Textile Triennial, which traveled throughout Australia; and Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum, Aberdeen, Scotland. Nationally, her work has shown at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and Evergreen Museum & Library at Johns Hopkins University. Her work is included in Textiles: The Art of Mankind (Thames & Hudson, 2012) by Mary Schoeser. She received an MFA from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Contact: marthalmcdonald123@gmail.com |
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