awards & education

2024 the gladstone house award, a craft ontario award for excellence 2020 ontario arts council, individual craftsperson 
2012 BA in embroidered textiles, first class honours, middlesex university, london, england
1993 honours BFA, chancellor’s medal, lakehead university, thunder bay, canada 

exhibitions

2024 softer and dreamier, (solo exhibition)festival of quilts birmingham UK 2023 stardust (solo), gore bay museum, manitoulin island, canada 2023 inside out (solo), homer watson house, kitchener, ontario, canada 2023 quilt national 2023, dairy barn, usa 2021 in the middle of the world, mississippi valley textile museum, (duo exhibition that toured canada)
quilt national 2021, dairy barn, usa 
2020 visions 2020, visions art museum, usa  
2019 beauty, emotion, spirit, soul (solo exhibition) one sky gallery, canada
2018 cloth of time, (duo) mary e black gallery, canada
2017 the cloud In me, (solo) david kaye gallery, canada
masterworks: abstract and geometric, curated by martha sielman, travelled globe

publications 

2023 in the middle of the world (miranda bouchard essay) catalogue of the two person exhibition 2018 art quilts unfolding:  50 years of innovation edited by sandra sider
2015 slow stitch: mindful and contemplative textile art  claire wellesely smith
2013 mended world (elizabeth kalbflesch essay) thunder bay art gallery

lectures & interviews

2024 the aesthetic of care, fibre arts take two, friday featured artist june 14 2023 turning forever to the heart, zoom presentation for Rue Pigalle 2023 how to hold life in your hands, seam side interview with Zak Foster

public collections

international quilt museum, USA
canada council art bank, ottawa, canada
art gallery of sudbury, canada
thunder bay art gallery, canada
fibre art collection at cambridge galleries, canada
government of ontario, canada

contact

p. 705-368-3819 or 705-968-0115
e. judithemartin@gmail.com   
a. 2078 bay estates road
sheguiandah, manitoulin island, ontario
p0p1w0, canada