Rosemary Mayer: Ways of Attaching
October 8, 2022 - January 15, 2023
Spike Island Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom
Curated by Robert Leckie
Ways of Attaching is the first institutional survey exhibition of artist Rosemary Mayer (1943–2014). It spans three decades of Mayer’s prolific and varied practice, from fabric sculptures, artist’s books and ephemeral installations of the 1970s through to ink drawings and pastels from the 1980s and 90s.
Reviews
Ellen Mara de Wachter, “Ways of Attaching,” The World of Interiors, September 23, 2022
Emily LaBarge, “Rosemary Mayer,” 4Columns, Nov. 18, 2022.
Martha Barratt, “Rosemary Mayer, Ways of Attaching,” Burlington Contemporary, January 4, 2023.
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, “Passing the Times with Rosemary Mayer,” The London Magazine, 2022
Installation Views
Photo credit: Dan Weill
Events
Lecture by Jenni Sorkin: “Dead Heroines”
In connection with Rosemary Mayer’s exhibition “Ways of Attaching,” art historian Jenni Sorkin leads an online lecture. Sorkin expands on the wider context of Mayer’s early works, exploring the artist’s search for matrilineal antecedents in the 1970s, and analysing her materials, forms and titles through the lens of historical feminist practices.