Hollybush Issue 18: Moon Tents - Rosemary Mayer (Hollybush Gardens)

‘Hollybush Issue 18: Moon Tents’ is published on the occasion of ‘Moon Tent for the Flower Moon’, a one-night installation and event held in collaboration with The Estate of Rosemary Mayer and artist Reto Pulfer at Peveril Gardens on the roof of FormaHQ in London on 11 May 2025, the eve of the full moon known as the flower moon. The event responded to Rosemary Mayer’s ‘Moon Tent’, an intervention into an existing rooftop structure, realised on the night of the full moon in October 1982 at the home of art historian Robert Hobbs in Lansing, New York. The work, which lasted for one night, was part of a larger series of ephemeral outdoor installations that Mayer called ‘Temporary Monuments’, which explored our connections to time, place, nature and history.

‘Moon Tent for the Flower Moon’ was organised in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Make Me a Place in Time and Seasons: Works by Rosemary Mayer, 1971–1983’ at Hollybush Gardens, London, 10 May – 28 June 2025.

This issue includes Rosemary Mayer’s ‘Moon Tent’ text (WhiteWalls, 1983), a text by Robert Hobbs, and a new interview between Lisa Panting, Reto Pulfer, Jacob Robichaux, Malin Ståhl and Marie Warsh.

‘Hollybush Issue’ is a contextualising device that provides information on artists’ practices through essays, conversations and images. Issues are printed periodically and linked to specific events such as exhibitions, performances or presentations.