Usually she is disappointed

‘Usually she is disappointed’ was a powerful and thought provoking solo exhibition by Martina Mullaney.

‘The works of Usually she is disappointed challenge established forms of art on maternity. The series moves beyond body-centric essentially determinate art where the maternal experience is explicit in the work, to adopt activist, social, and political manifestations. The works make reference to the patriarchal nature of language to refigure the mother as a political and social experience, one suppressed by a neoliberalism that isolates mothers socially, creatively, and intellectually.’