Rosy Martin - Too Close to Home? - Holding the everyday still

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This installation by Rosy Martin features photographs and videos, offering glances at fragments of working class suburban social history. Martin maps the traces of 'absent presence.' The camera's eye clings tenderly to every worn surface of the artist's childhood home; a 1930's semi-detached house where her ninety-three year old widowed mother lived amidst interior decoration and paintings created by her father. This attempt to retain a sense of place forever focuses us upon the contradictions of our attachments. Photography offers the opportunity to relfect upon and confront in isolation, elements of lived experience, made strange by their sudden removal from the continuum of day-to-day living, stilled Rosy Martin evolved and developed phototherapy with the late Jo Spence, from 1983. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and published widely since 1985. Her work examines the overlaps between photography, memory, identity and unconscious processes.