Liljana Mead Martin is an artist and environmental researcher based on Salt Spring Island and Vancouver, Canada. Her practice engages with the tactile remnants of altered landscapes—charred wood, demolition dust, soil and the regenerative processes that follow—to explore themes of adaptation, death, and renewal. By incorporating sculptural casts of her own form, filled with collected materials like sediments or fluorescent bioplastics, her work depicts deep time and temperature change to create a visceral connection between the material realities of land degradation and the embodied experience of climate change.
Martin holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (‘10) and an MFA from Emily Carr University ('16). Her work has been exhibited at The Klondike Institute for Arts and Culture (Dawson, 2018), Nanaimo Art Gallery (Nanaimo, 2020), and Wil Aballe Art Projects (Vancouver 2021), NADA (NYC 2022) and Zalucky Contemporary (Toronto 2022), among others. She is the editor of BIOMASS, an online publication for dialogues around sustainable art practices, and a member of the Hummingbird Collective, a group who creates educational materials that support environmental literacy through art. Martin works as a Science Communicator with conservation groups and organizations in the Salish Sea (Pacific Northwest), where she translates environmental research into visual communications for improved environmental policy.
