Bedside is an iPhoneographic multi-media installation exploring identity through Documentary participant observational image capture of her bedside table taken on a daily basis over a three-year period. This multi-media exhibition is a story of female identity through love, loss, place and exploration. Bedside is about reclaiming identity and how the camera phone becomes an intimate form of stability in that process.Martin’s story is currently in production as a documentary work by a filmmaker in Melbourne and her immersive exhibition of images and video work opens at Spectrum Project Space on 6th June 2019. The iPhone camera provides a freedom and accessibility to share in a collective cultural experience, engaging in new ways of working and seeing the world. The images share the intimate and common objects, patterns and repetitious positioning of the ordinary and extraordinary experiences of life toward an expression of universal emotion.

Physical Absence is a group exhibition reimagining societal interpretations of portrait and self-portraiture. The reimagining centres around the absence of the physical body in portraiture, suggesting the way we have traditionally envisaged the portrait, as a face or body, is limiting. Physical Absence attempts to widen the scope of how society classifies portraiture and seeks to facilitate the opportunity for more diverse interpretations of art.

Books on the top shelf and photographed front on, show rare leather-bound, gilded and antiquarian books symbolising history, craft, story, narrative of the time. Positioned underneath the central shelf are a collage of images holding books and items on my bedside table and some cheeky and intriguing clues to my personal life.  This story holds a universal resonance with symbolic cues, that reference history and the current cultural, humanitarian and environmental crisis we are facing on a global scale. My work discusses another level of extinction within the printed form with a focus on the loss of memory, place, materiality, design and the physicality of holding a book; of reading a book in printed form.