awards & education

2020 ontario arts council, individual craftsperson 
2018 craft ontario award for mid-career excellence
2012 BA in embroidered textiles, first class honours, middlesex university, london, england
1993 honours BFA, chancellor’s medal, lakehead university, thunder bay, canada 

exhibitions & community projects

2021 in the middle of the world, mississippi valley textile museum, (duo exhibition) 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
craft ontario 19, best of north award, craft ontario 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
quilt national 2017, dairy barn, usa
2015 wild pure aesthetic wonder, curated by gloria hickey and philippa jones, canada 
2013 mended world, thunder bay art gallery, (solo exhibition), canada 
2009-13 manitoulin circle project
2012 tradition in transition: canadian quilts, curated by sandra reford, france

publications 

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

2020 my awakened heart / my pandemic summer
2019 judy martin and the sense of touch, school of stitched textiles, uk

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