Brian Martin

Professor Brian Martin is the Director of Wominjeka Djeembana Research Lab and was Monash University Art, Design and. Architecture Faculty’s inaugural Associate Dean, Indigenous. Brian is a descendant of Bundjalung, Muruwari and Kamilaroi peoples.

In 2022, Brian was awarded a three-year appointment to the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts where he’ll play a key role in identifying research excellence, assessing funding applications and providing strategic advice to the ARC.

Brian is represented by William Mora Galleries. He has been a practising artist
for thirty years and has exhibited both nationally and internationally specifically in the media of painting and drawing. His research and practice focuses on refiguring Australian art and culture from an Indigenous ideological perspective based on a reciprocal relationship to “Country”. He is also Honorary Professor of Eminence at Centurion University of Technology and Management in Odisha, India, and a Board Director of the National Theatre Melbourne, The Melbourne Art Foundation and Shepparton Art Museum.