Jack The Lad (1996) is one of a series of eight images produced by pioneering feminist artist Rosy Martin’s for her Out Takes series. This series was part of Martin’s ongoing exploration of gender as performance, and her investigations into the family album. “I remember being struck by how often I had seen within the faded fragments from the past, representations of something familiar. Desire, supported by the collusion of hairdressers, clothes designers, and high street photographers, positioned a generation in the 1930’s and 40’s by their similarity to their film-star idols. This project of self-transformation was seductive, yet always tinged with a hint of failure, of pathos.”
This new archival, digital edition is produced at a smaller size to the original exhibition print (49 × 33 cm), at a more domestic, family album sized 18 × 13 cm.
Rosy Martin (b.1946) is an artist who works across photography, moving image, psychological therapy and writing. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally and her work is held in collections including Tate and the Centre for British Photography.
Jack The Lad (Out Take #2), 1996/2025
Archival digital print
18 × 13 cm
Signed and numbered edition of 20 + 2 AP’s
£150 each
PLEASE NOTE: this edition will be produced and sent out at the end of the exhibition.
Jack The Lad (1996) is one of a series of eight images produced by pioneering feminist artist Rosy Martin’s for her Out Takes series. This series was part of Martin’s ongoing exploration of gender as performance, and her investigations into the family album. “I remember being struck by how often I had seen within the faded fragments from the past, representations of something familiar. Desire, supported by the collusion of hairdressers, clothes designers, and high street photographers, positioned a generation in the 1930’s and 40’s by their similarity to their film-star idols. This project of self-transformation was seductive, yet always tinged with a hint of failure, of pathos.”
This new archival, digital edition is produced at a smaller size to the original exhibition print (49 × 33 cm), at a more domestic, family album sized 18 × 13 cm.
Rosy Martin (b.1946) is an artist who works across photography, moving image, psychological therapy and writing. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally and her work is held in collections including Tate and the Centre for British Photography.
Jack The Lad (Out Take #2), 1996/2025
Archival digital print
18 × 13 cm
Signed and numbered edition of 20 + 2 AP’s
£150 each
PLEASE NOTE: this edition will be produced and sent out at the end of the exhibition.
