Fern Martins is an Ngarabul woman from New South Wales. Fern completed a Bachelor of Arts at South Australian Art School. She launched her artistic career at the age of 19 with her one-woman sculptural exhibition under the inspirational direction of Noel Sheridan. Fern also exhibited her landrights prints at the National Gallery. Fern’s activism for Aboriginal Land Rights during the 1980s raised funds for emerging Land Councils. Together with other young Aboriginal urban artists, she started Boomalli, the first Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, in Sydney in 1988. She also assisted the Sydney community to establish art programmes and workshops for Aboriginal Cooperatives and lectured at the University of Adelaide.