Brian Martin

Associate Dean (Indigenous), Art Design & Architecture (MADA) Brian.Martin@monash.edu

Biography

Brian is Monash University Art Design & Architecture’s (MADA) inaugural Associate Dean, Indigenous. Brian is a descendant of the Muruwari, Bundjalung and Kamilaroi peoples. He has been a practising artist for twenty-three years and has exhibited both nationally and internationally specifically in the media of painting and drawing.

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articles

Snapshot: Reimagining Australia Day

A day that is meant to bring everyone together to reflect on national identity, draws us down a dark alley of division.

A Different Lens

The Djab Wurrung embassy at the birthing tree on the Western Highway

Indigenous people have much to teach the rest of us about the value of trees

How do you measure the worth of a tree? A forester sees the value of the timber, an environmentalist sees a habitat for possums, insects and birds, and an Indigenous Australian sees the tree as part of the living web of Country.

Politics and society

The Australian identity debate (ep11)

Australia once identified itself as the “lucky country”, a place where the “Aussie battler” was given a fair go, but can it still lay claim to this?

A Different Lens