Contact details
Phone (AUS): +61 402 533 734
Email:
martinabeka@outlook.com
Instragram: @martinabeka_
About
Martina Beka is a multidisciplinary artist specialising in sculpture and installation.
Her practice explores the intersection between materiality and self. Martina employs found materials, often leather from used chairs and couches, drawing attention to the traces of human interaction and experiences embedded through these materials. The artist establishes connectivity in her work by forming non-hierarchical relationships with materials, evoking intimacy and parallels between experiences shared through material and self. Acts of reversing, skinning, prying open and releasing tension points are central to the conception and interpretation of her work. Her minimal sculptures and installations highlight seductive qualities of surface and tactility which continue to evolve as the artist interacts with the work. More recently, Martina has investigated the potential properties emanating from such found materials and questions what energy is held and released from these materials.
Education / Training
2020 – 2023 Bachelor of Contemporary Art, University of South Australia
Residencies
2024 – 2025 9-month residency at Fab Workshop and Studios, in partnership with the Adelaide Fringe.
Awards /
Grants
2024 Carclew Project and Development Grant Recipient
2023 Photography Awards for Excellence: Atkins Prize
2022 University of South Australia, Chancellor’s Letters of Commendation
2021 University of South Australia, University Merit Award
Exhibitions / Projects
GLEAM, Group show, Household, Adelaide SA, September - October 2024
Short Notice (#2), Group show, SASA Gallery, Adelaide SA,
9 May 2024
Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition 2024, Group show, SASA Gallery, Adelaide SA, February - March
2024
SKIN, Group show, 120 Grenfell Street, Adelaide SA, February 2024
Coalesce, Contemporary Art Graduate Exhibition, Group show, University of South Australia, Adelaide SA,
December 2023
I acknowledge that I live and work on the traditional lands of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains. I offer my respect to Elders—past, present and emerging—and honour their deep connection to this land.
I acknowledge that the lands and waters I live and work on are of ongoing significance to the Kaurna people. Their sovereignty was never ceded—this land has always been and always will be Aboriginal land.