Rosy Martin is an artist-photographer, psychological-therapist, workshop leader, independent researcher, lecturer and writer. She explores the relationships between photography, memory, identities and unconscious processes using self-portraiture, still life photography and video. From 1983, with the late Jo Spence, she pioneered re-enactment phototherapy. Her work has explored issues including gender, sexualities, ageing, class, memory, urbanism, location, family dynamics, mother-daughter relationships, health, disease, bereavement, grief, loss and reparation. Exhibited internationally since 1985, including Tate Britain (2024-5), (2023-4), (2015-6), Photo London (2023) Centre for British Photography (2023), Arnofini Bristol (2020-1) Wellcome Trust (2019-20), Peltz Gallery London (2014), Durham Art Gallery (2010), Documenta 12, Germany (2007) Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (2001), Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago (1991 &1994), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (1991), and Photographers Gallery, London (1987). She has published extensively since 1985 including Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms (Valiz 2020), Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age (Routledge, 2013). 

Image: ‘Acts of Reparation’ Rosy Martin in collaboration with Kay Goodridge.