mary down
"Landscape of Memory", 2005
Mixed media; detail from light box
55 x 44 x 20cms
Mary Down’s work is issue based, conceptual and cross disciplinary, encompassing photo and video work, print and painting, construction and assemblage.
“(Her) sense of interior space, coupled to the sharpened domesticity of many of the materials and processes used, evoke hidden memories and suggestions of a forgotten other.” – Robert Lowe
"Snakes and Ladders"
Mixed media
74 x 74 cms
A game of chance . . . part of the installation ‘for Lelethu’ made in response to time spent working in an AIDS community in South Africa.
Exhibitions
Recent selected exhibitions include:
- ‘Insiders:art and the box’
- St Fergus Gallery
- Wick Iona Gallery
- Kingussie Inverness Museum & Art Gallery
- Canterbury Museum & Art Gallery
- ‘Landscapes of Memory’ – The Salt Gallery Hayle Cornwall
- ‘Mergings’ – National Gallery of the Cayman Islands
Current Exhibitions:
- ‘for Lelethu’ at ‘the salt gallery’ Hayle, Cornwall. September 7 – November 7
- 'one body - one bread' at Phillack Church Hayle Cornwall September 7 - November 7
Mary Down
1 Oakwood Drive
Harpenden
Herts AL5 2LR
Home Phone: 01582 467430
Email: midown@templeton3.demon.co.uk
Website: www.templeton3.demon.co.uk
