Rosy Martin is an artist-photographer, psychological therapist, workshop leader, lecturer and writer. She works as an artist-photographer using self-portraiture, still life photography, digital imaging and video, and as a psychological-therapist exploring the relationships between photography, memory, identities and unconscious processes.
Rosy Martin’s video and photographic series: ‘Getting Changed’ and ‘Too Close to Home?’ are based on her memories of her home and death of her father. Martin’s oeuvre (life time of work/complete practice) is art therapy – an approach commonly known as ‘phototherapy’.
Photo-therapies actively seek to address the partial – and by implication – unrepresented narratives as memories constructed in the family album. Phototherapy allows the unrepresented to be presented.
'Getting Changed' is a 17 minutes video in which Martin becomes her mother through a performative process of transformation. She puts on her mother clothes, her jewellery, styles her hair to resemble mother's. This work was part of an emotional attempt to reclaim the mother Rosy Martin had lost.
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| Getting Changed |
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| Getting Changed |
'Too close to home?' is a project born out of Rosy Martin's responses to the death of her father and the desperate searching that goes with that first recognition of profound loss. She photographed 'in order to hold onto the moment, the place, the trace which she cannot stop, cannot keep, cannot hold'(Rosy Martin, 1999) She returns to her home in which she grew up and takes pictures of the house, objects that has meaning to her. She represents her and her mother's existence through traces, by showing the wear and tear on the fabric of the house. Her poetic imagery features objects and spaces loaded with personal referent. She tries to find herself in the present by looking back at the past.
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| Too close to home (cupboard) Rosy Martin |
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Too close to home
(mantlepiece) Rosy Martin |
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| Too close to home (hairnet) Rosy Martin |
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