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Born, Melbourne.

Graduate Diploma in Fine Art [Painting], Victorian College of the Arts.

Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art [Painting], Victorian College of the Arts.

Double Portraits, Artlands Victoria 2018, Capital Theatre, Bendigo

Beyond the Garden, Woodbine Art, Malmsbury

New Work, Woodbine Art, Malmsbury

Open Studio Malmsbury Festival, Malmsbury

Portraits, Gallery 101, Melbourne.

Women and their Dogs, Temple Studio, Melbourne.

Portrait Works on Paper, Stop 22, Melbourne Fringe, St Kilda.

St Johns Southgate 2017 Art Prize (winner), Southbank, Melbourne.
A Whole Different Animal, Brightspace, St Kilda.

Best in Show: Dogs in Australian Art, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange.

Len Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine Art Gallery, Castlemaine.

Recent Drawings, Prudence Flint, Peter Grziwotz, Gabrielle Martin, Richard Stringer, Deborah Walker, the Gallery @ City Library, Melbourne.

Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Observatory Hill, The Rocks. Juried exhibition.

Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Observatory Hill, The Rocks. Juried exhibition.
We Are All Animals, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre Gallery, Bendigo, VIC.

The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Victorian Art Centre, Melbourne. Juried Exhibition.
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H.Erwin Gallery, Observatory Hill, The Rocks, NSW, Juried exhibition.
Metro 5 Art Award, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne.

Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery,Observatory Hill, The Rocks, NSW. Juried exhibition.
Compendium, Platform, Melbourne, Victoria.

Salon des Refusés, The Alternate Archibald & Wynne Prize Selection, S.H.Erwin Gallery, Sydney.

The 2001 Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H.Erwin Gallery, Observatory Hill, The Rocks, NSW, Juried exhibition.

Art Fair 2000, Melbourne.

Stand 33 at Gallery 101, Gallery 101, Melbourne.
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Observatory Hill, The Rocks. Juried exhibition.

Review ’99 / Curators’ Choice, Gallery 101, Melbourne.
Overview 1999, Linden Arts Centre and Gallery, Melbourne.
Exposure, Linden Arts Centre and Gallery, Melbourne.

Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, National Touring Exhibition. Juried exhibition.

Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.

vis-a-vis, West Space, Footscray.

A Four Show, West Space, Footscray.

Out West, West Space, Footscray.

Postgraduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts.

Images of Women, Gryphon Gallery, University of Melbourne.

Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.

Fill this space, Next Wave Festival.

Mural, 101 Collins Street,Melbourne.

St Johns Southgate 2017 Art Prize (winner), Southbank, Melbourne.

Artist in Residence, Medley Hall, Melbourne University.

Pat Corrigan Artists Grant.

Mid-Year Award, Victorian College of the Arts.

Trustees of the National Gallery Award, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Portraits: Gabrielle Martin, Selwyn Rodda, Setu,
http://www.setumag.com/2017/09/portraits-gabrielle-martin.html

Dogs in Australian Art, A New History Of Antipodean Creativity, Steven Miller, Wakefield Press, pp.48,49,156,157

Exhibition in Malmsbury, Castlemaine Mail, November 11,p. 17

The Art of the Collection State Library of Victoria with Aitkin, et al (Melbourne: TheMiegunyah Press, 2007) pp. 131-2

James Taylor, Of Pets and People, The Advertiser, October 20, pp. 21,27Artist’s Animal Instincts, Bendigo Weekly, October 28, pp. 24
Simon Plant, Brush with Fame, The Herald Sun, April 2, weekend, pp. 7-9.

Penny Webb, Martin paints what can’t be said, The Age, Dec 26, p. 9.Homage to teacher wins Melbourne artist an Archibald spot, Arts Hub, Nov 17.
Robert Nelson, Few prizes in Archibald, The Age, Dec 22, p. 6.
Making Portraits: Five Years of National Portrait Gallery Commissions, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT.
Critical Mass, ABC Television.

Andrew Webster, Anxious Wait for Artists,Moreland Leader, 8 December.
Kevin Hart, Portraits,Catalogue essay, Gallery 101, Melbourne, 19 August – 6 September.
Gabrielle Martin Portraits, Visual Art, The A-List, What’s On Today, Review, The Age Newspaper, Melbourne.

Jennifer Sexton, Portia Geach Memorial Award,The Australian, 26 October.
Diana Simmonds, Portia Geach Memorial Award, Sunday Telegraph, 28 October.
Katie Pollock, Perfect Week, The Bulletin, 31 October.
Critics Pick, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 November.
Portia Geach Memorial Award, The Sydney Weekly, 13 November.

Gabrielle Martin Portrait Painter, Women’s Art Register, Bulletin, No. 31, January, pp.4-5.

Robert Nelson, Man’s best friend is also an artist’s tool, review, The Age, 10 November.
Felicity Allen, Woman’s best friend, The Herald Sun, 15 November.
Life’s a Bitch, Melbourne Weekly, 8-14 November.
Dogged Relationships, Melbourne Star Observer, 12 November.
Felicity Allen, Woman’s Best Friend, Herald Sun, 15 November.

Artist celebrates that canine bond, Moreland Sentinel, 15 November.
Exposure – Artists’ Portraits of Artists, exhibition catalogue, Linden Arts Centre.
Jeff Makin, Exposure – Artists’ Portraits of Artists, Herald Sun, 7 June.

Portraits of Australia 1998 No.6, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Exhibition Catalogue.
Out There, Port Phillip Leader, 16 November.
Artist draws out the true sense of a person, Moreland Sentinel, 23 November.
Suzanna Spunner, Dumped by the Next Wave and Still Standing, Art Monthly, July.
Myfanwy Warhurst, A Sense of Place, The Age, 8 May.

Catherine Lambert, St Kilda’s Underside, Herald Sun, 15 October.

Private Commissions

Portrait of General Eva Burrows, General of the Salvation Army 1986 – 1993. Commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, Australia

Deakin University Art Collection.The State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.

National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.

The State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.