Artist and teacher, working in two- and three-dimensional media, born and lived in London, wife of the artist David Methuen Campbell. She studied at Royal College of Art painting school, 1956–9, being awarded an Abbey Minor Travelling Scholarship to Rome, 1959, then a French Government Scholarship, 1960. Taught at Central School of Art/Central St Martins from 1966 and at Architectural Association, 1984–6. Martin pursued research “into the Surrealist roots of Abstract Expressionism”. Group shows included Young Contemporaries at RBA Galleries, 1958–9; Arts Council Travelling Exhibition, 1958; Space at St Katherine’s Dock, 1970; and The Sixties Art Scene in London, Barbican Art Gallery, 1993. Martin had a solo show at Courtauld Institute, 1967, and one for Vidal Sasson Company, 1984.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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