Photo-Therapy Day 2019: Rosy Martin
Rosy
Martin
Pioneer
of Phototherapy. Artist based in London - UK
I
work both as an artist using self-portraiture, still life
photography, digital imaging and video, and as a
photographer/therapist to extend the range of potential meanings that
lie within notions of domestic photography and to explore the
relationships between photography, memory, identities and unconscious
processes.
Starting
in 1983, working with the late Jo Spence, I evolved and developed a
new photographic practice- phototherapy - based upon re-enactment.
Through embodiment, I explore the psychic and social construction of
identities within the drama of the everyday. My work makes explicit
the multiplicity of identities that an individual inhabits, using the
'self' as a text to be deconstructed, reviewed, challenged and
reconsidered. This work bridges private and public discourses, theory
and practice. Themes which I have explored in exhibitions and
articles include:- gender, sexuality, ageing, class, desire, memory,
location, urbanism, shame, family dynamics, power/powerlessness,
health and disease, bereavement, grief, loss and reparation. The work
has been exhibited widely, Nationally and Internationally, since
1985.
I
have run intensive phototherapy workshops and given lectures in
Universities and Galleries throughout Britain, the USA, Canada, Eire
and Finland. I have also run workshops in community settings,
including a women's prison, projects with survivors of sexual abuse
and schools based projects on digital identities.
Lecturer
in photographic theory, art history and visual culture at
Universities in UK. Psychological therapist in private practice.
Rosy
Martin will talk about
Inhabiting
the image: Photography, Therapy and Re-enactment Phototherapy
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