Rotation MM1
Mary Martin
Foremost among the generation of British artists who ‘rediscovered’ abstraction during the 1940s, Mary Martin studied painting at the Royal College of Art, and worked as a designer early in her career before producing her first abstract paintings. These experiments in abstraction quickly translated into three dimensions, taking the form of abstract relief-sculptures, mobiles and constructions.
She developed her constructions through relationships of simple, harmonic and repeated forms using mathematical progression and rules of proportion, often exchanging ideas with her husband, the artist Kenneth Martin. Her interest in modern industrial materials and the possibilities of science and technology imbues her work with a sense of optimism for the future, while also acknowledging the legacy of past technologies, and the importance of the hand-made.
Rotation MM1
Mary Martin
- Artist
- Mary Martin (1907-1969)
- Title
- Rotation MM1
- Medium
- Injection moulded plastic and mirror multiple
- Date
- 1968
- Size
- 5 x 5 in : 12.7 x 12.7 cm
- Edition
- Unknown but presumed to be circa 100
- Publisher
- Unlimited of Bath
- Exhibited
- Tate St. Ives, 'Kenneth Martin and Mary Martin: Constructed Works', 6 October 2007 - 13th January 2008 (another example exhibited);
- Reference
- C15-46
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