Ronnie Martin New Zealand Textile & Mixed Media Artist
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Experience & Qualifications

AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS : TEACHING : JUDGING : EXHIBITIONS

Personal Strengths

  • Creative and enthusiastic
  • Reliable and energetic
  • Strong work ethic
  • Punctual and honest
  • Good communication skills
  • Knowledgeable and experienced

Qualifications

  • Dip. Teaching (Advanced)
  • Certificate in Small Business Management (2007)
  • Tutor with Creative Journey workshops since 2014
  • Tutor for 9 NZ National Quilt Symposia
  • Creative Director for Changing Threads National Textile and Fibre Awards (founder in 2009)with Arts Council Nelson
  • Attended many workshops and classes and online study courses in a wide range of topics both in New Zealand and Australia (e.g. group communications, problem-solving, art-related courses such as design, colour, mixed media techniques, stitch and embroidery)


TEACHING and judging

​Workshops, classes and on-line study in a wide range of topics both New Zealand and Australia, including:
Design, Colour, Mixed media techniques, Stitch and embroidery​, Group communications, and Problem solving
Tutor -  Creative Journey workshops 
Tutor -  8 NZ National Quilt Symposia 
Tutor - Textile Art in NMIT Visual Arts Programme (occasional tutor for visual arts programme in 2012,2013, 2014)
Creative Director - Changing Threads National Textile and Fibre Awards
Judge  - Quilting, Embroidery and Creative Fibre exhibitions (attended 3 day quilt judging course in Auckland)

Awards & Exhibitions

I have exhibited widely Creative Fibre Guest exhibitor for several National and International exhibitions and I have shown as exhibitor or guest artist in many small local shows.  I have received a number of awards for creative textiles and painting.
  • Filaments of Fire (supreme winner)
  • Quilt Symposia awards for colour, Design and Innovation (5 awards)
  • 3 Hoffman Awards (winner twice, runner up once)
  • Opotoki Fleece and Fibre Awards-winner overall award, best use of thread, colour award twice 
  • Creative Fibre Guild-colour and Design awards
  • Embroidery Guild-recipient of National Scholarship for Travel overseas to study at a Textile Forum
  • Various quilt awards such as Chch Rose Growers, Quilters Barn, The Cloth Shop, 
  • WOW awards (3 entries accepted and shown)
  • Suter Gallery –Embroidery and quilt shows
  • Creative Fibre guilds-Auckland, Wellington, Wanganui, Christchurch,  Hamilton         
  • Norsewear Art Awards
  • Unique New Zealand (Houston U.S.A.)
  • Lines of Flight (Auckland)
  • Isel Site
  • Deck of Cards (travelled the U.S.A.)
  • Currency Quilts (travelled Japan and the U.S.A.)
  • N.Z. Quilt Symposia (entered and accepted for fourteen years)
  • ​Fibre links 2013
  • Eco Colour Odyssey-(Fibre Spectrum)
  • ​Here and There (painted and stitched travel pictures) 2013
  • Beginnings, Nelson 2013 (5 person show)
  • Strands (4 person show) 2014
  • Handmaid, Nelson 2014 (four-person show)
  • A Sense of space,2015 Refinery Artspace Nelson (big solo show)
  • Ronnie Martin retrospective, (guest artist) Collingwood 2015
  • A Needle pulling Thread 2016 (7person show)
  • A Creative Journey, Fibre Spectrum 2016
  • Aotearoa textile artists –UK 2016 London, Harrogate and Dublin
  • Creative Fibres -Guest exhibitor for several National and International exhibitions
  • Bernina NZ exhibition-‘No 8 Series’ 2017
  • The Maze-guest exhibitor February/March 2017
  • Arty Nelson- guest exhibitor December-February 2018
  • Art @203- guest artist Jan-March 2018
  • Bernina International-Switzerland 2018
  • Old Post Office, Moutere,  December-March, 2019
  • Kaimara Vineyard Gallery-guest artist January 2019
  • Wall to Wall Gallery-guest artist October2019-March 2020
  • Nelson Suter Art Society-2019-(5 person show)(Spring exhibition 2019, Summer 2019, Autumn 2020, Spring 2020)
  • Wall to Wall Gallery –October 2020-March 2021

Publications

Featured in several publications, including.
-Snippet Sensations by Cindy Walter
-More Snippet Sensations by Cindy Walter
-New Zealand Quilter-four issues (individual articles)
-NZ Quilter –eight issues (Changing Threads creative director)
-Threads magazine(six issues) -1998-2019
-Australian InFusion magazine-Issue 6 article and featured tutor profile
Australian “Embellish ‘ magazine- article and project 2018

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  • Home
    • About Me
  • Workshops
    • My Teaching Philosophy
    • Art Journals >
      • Art Journals - Intro
      • Art Journals - Fabric
      • Art Journals - Bookbinding
    • Mixed Media >
      • Make Your Mark
      • Stamp Your Mark
      • Stitch Your Mark
      • A Scripted Journey
    • Textiles
    • Design Secrets
    • Course Enquiries
  • UPCOMING EVENTS
  • Gallery
    • Paintings
    • Textile Works
    • Mixed Media
    • Art Dolls
  • Blog
  • Contact