About My Work
Expression and identity and how these are formed are central to my work. We locate the expression of human identity mainly at two places of our body: the face and the hands. I am interested in the image of the face and the hands as a sign of our human existence.
Education
2007 PhD (Art & Design, practice based PhD), Cardiff Metropolitan University, GB
2002 MA Ceramics (with distinction), Cardiff Metropolitan University, GB
1992 BA Hons (First Class) in Ceramics, Bath Spa University, Bath, GB
Exhibitions (selection)
2019
Residency – Aussteigen – Kloster Dornach, CH
Mehr als Eins, Projektraum Fotografie, Dortmund
2017
stofflich – virtuell – leibhaftig, Babette Martini und Hanfried Brenner, Gallery Dieter Fischer, Dortmund
2016
Das Bild des Menschen: Kopf – Portrait – Maske, Gallery Netuschil, Darmstadt
Zeiten der Unschärfe -Times out of Focus, blam! Galerie, Dortmund (solo)
Westpassage – A collaboration of eight artists from the Unionviertel. Westpassage is a project of the Union Gewerbehof. The project is financially supported by the Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sports of the Land Nordrhein-Westfalia and supported through Förderrahmen der Kreativ Quartiere Ruhr.
2015
Ausstellungsprojekt / Kunstpreis ’Das Leben ist eine Kartoffel‘, Kunstverein Projektraum Bahnhof25, Kleve
Grafik aus Dortmund, Berswordthalle, Dortmund
2013
Kopf Und Hand, Anne Haring, Künstlerhaus Göttingen und BBK Torhaus Galerie,Braunschweig (solo)
Traces and Transformations, mit Bronwyn Williams-Ellis, BRLSI, Bath (solo)
2012
Metamorphosis, Fringe Art Bath, Bath
Offene Ateliers Dortmund 2012, Dortmund (catalogue)
2011
Sculpture for Remembrance, Bath Abbey, Bath (Solo)
Kopf und Hand, mit Anne Haring, Galerie Freyer, Bocholt (Wanderausstellung, catalogue, solo)
Out of Bath, Bath Spa University, Bath (catalogue)
2010
keramisch – kosmopolitisch – figurativ, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken (catalogue)
not so fast, The Octagon, Bath (catalogue)
2009
Der Menschliche Körper – Metamorphosen, Fraunhofer Institut, UMSICHT, Oberhausen (solo)
Material Changes – Objects in Transition, Institut für Kunst und Materielle Kultur, Technische Universität Dortmund (solo)
Identity – Anonymity, The Lloyd Gill Gallery, Weston-Super-Mare
It Wouldn’t Be Worth It Without The Struggle, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff
2008
A Collector’s Cabinet, Bath
Sculpture and Printmakers Show, St Ives Society of Artists, St Ives
2007
[Identity], Old Postal Museum, Bath
2005
Bodywork, Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Wanderausstellung, catalogue)
The Fragmented Figure, Cardiff Metropolitan University, GB
Awards
Research Grant Cardiff Metropolitan University
Postgraduate Award, Arts and Humanities Research Board
Community House Arts Award, London
Setting Up Grant, Crafts Council, London
Major Award from South West Arts
Honorary Postgraduate Stipendiat (Fellowship)
Gane Travel Award
Public Commissions
Westpassage
Variations in ¾, exterior relief, dance studio, Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, Taunton
Moving Conversation, wall mounted figures for the Arc Theatre, Trowbridge
Public Collections
Kloster Dornach, CH
Fraunhofer Institut UMSICHT
Ecco Design Centre, Denmark
Community Centre, London Borough of Enfield
Literature
Boesner GmbH holding and innovation, publisher, catalog 2018/2019, Witten
Boesner GmbH holding and innovation, publisher, (2016) Kunstwelten, Witten
Jo Dahn (2015) New Directions in Ceramics: from Spectacle to Trace, London, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Ian Wilson (2013) Bronwyn Williams-Ellis and Babette Martini: Traces and Transformations, Ceramic Review, Issue262, Juli/August
Jane Waller, author / publisher, (2001) The Human Form in Clay, Ramsbury, Marlborough, The Crowood Press
Teaching and Research
2020 Figurentheater – Kolleg Bochum, Part time Lecturer for drawing
2005 Designing for the 21st Century, collaborative, interdisciplinary creativity cluster, organised by the Department of Computer Science, Bath University
2003-2005 Research Assistant, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, with teaching responsibility across both MA and BA programs
1997-2002 Bath University, Part time Lecturer
1994-2001 Trowbridge College, Foundation Course for Art & Design, Part time Lecturer
1995 Central St Martins College, Degree Course for Ceramics, Part time Lecturer
1993-1999 City of Bath College, Part time & Visiting Lecturer
Memberships
2020 K.i.N. Künstlerinnen im Netzwerk- Künstlerhaus Dortmund
Other Projects
2020 Working as freelance coach for artists
2015 Founding member Gallery Blam!
2014 Founding of a Mentoring Group for professional artists in Dortmund
2008 Founding of a Mentoring Group for professional artists in Bath Area, GB
2007-2010 member of the directorate board of Bath Area Network for Artists, BANA
Links
boesner.com/kunstportal/material-und-inspiration/mein-material/babette-martini/
http://videomap.eu/babette_martini/14
www.annekedunkhase.de/babette-martini/
Instagram: babettemartini
www.mappencoaching.de
