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<a href="http://www.delphahudson.co.uk%20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.delphahudson.co.uk</a>
<a href="http://www.delphahudsonartist.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.delphahudsonartist.co.uk</a>
Medium
painting
film
sculpture
performance
installation
Location
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Cornwall
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p>I paint chaotic and dystopian domestic scenes. In surreal and crowded spaces women and children gesture as if from a medieval illuminated manuscript, or an Old Master like Bosch or Michelangelo. I choreograph powerful female protagonists and situate them in new imaginary realms to challenge domestic legacies that make women and mothers invisible.</p>
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<p>Richly textured compositions use the fluidity of dripped bitumen with oil colour to create dynamic networks or patterns of ambiguous realism. The painting process is textual and performative, bodily creating figures that are excessive yet relatable. Small, cherubic, troublesome children embroil us in a palimpsest of narratives that question historical hierarchies and power structures.</p>
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<p>My practice aims to excavate lived experience and initiate new conversations about value. Art is a space to open up cultural and social signification and ask for change.</p>
Topic
caring
mothering
Exhibitions
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<p><em>Distanced Domestic</em> exhibition by co.curation, London</p>
<a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/606" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Maternochronics: Maternal Exhausion in the Time of Pandemic</em></a>, online exhibition 2020
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Publication of performance <em>Theatre of the Self</em> project with maternal mental health diaries
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Delpha Hudson
caring
Cornwall
mothering
painting
United Kingdom
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Website
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<a href="http://www.susanmerrick.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.susanmerrick.co.uk</a>
Medium
live art
installations
film
photography
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Topic
invisible
private labour
feminism
domestic violence
domestic abuse
women
women artists
time restraints
production
private sphere
language
power
communication
artist residency
support
friendship
aerobics
semaphore
sign language
activism
community
voices
politics
autonomy
empowerment
gender
social relations
power relations
artist voice
Exhibitions
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A Series of Events Two, Princes Hall, Aldershot
A Series of Events One, Platform 1 Gallery, Wandsworth, London
Inside Out 2018 Leyden Gallery
DAW Public Takeover 2018, Bank, London
Kunstal 45 Summer Exhibition 2017, Den Helder, The Netherlands
DAW Public Takeover 2017, Outside Tate Modern, London
DAW Midsummer Madness, Leyden Gallery (June)
DAW Performance Takeover, Leyden Gallery (April)
MotherHouse 2016
FiLiArt Exhibition, Iklectik, 2014
Artist Statement
Susan Merrick is a multi-disciplinary Artist. She is interested in conversations, language and communication, in questioning whose voices are heard, and in the access and spaces that can challenge or facilitate this.
With a background in BSL/English Interpreting and Sociology she makes work, projects and collaborations exploring these themes, utilising a context-based mix of social engagement, live art, public installations, film making, collections and documentation.
With relation to the maternal, she is researching through practice language and social support/attitudes and the power this has on maternal mental states, bodily autonomy and status.
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Susan Merrick
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Website
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<a href="http://www.palcik.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.palcik.com</a>
Medium
film
Location
The location of the interview
Dublin
Ireland
Artist Statement
Bara would like other parents to identify with the impact that children can have on their lives or offer would-be parents a unique insight into an experience of first-time parenting. Her work is also a love letter of sorts to her main inspiration, her son, as the work she creates is not only about him but for him.
The short film “Matyas” is inspired by a Czech fairy tale “Otesanek” written by Karel Jaromir Erben. The Czech folk tale from the nineteenth century talks about a living, constantly hungry, wooden log which eats its mother and its father and then continues eating other people. The end of this enormous eating is brought about by an old lady working in the fields who cuts through its wooden stomach and all the people jump out alive.
“Matyas”, the story of the all-consuming nature of maternal love, talks about a single mother who is not unhappy but very tired. The mother struggles with her constantly hungry baby who, in an addition to the original folk tale, never sleeps.
The mother grows desperate as she tries to feed the baby with everything she can find in their home. Her milk is not enough, nor is porridge, fruit or vegetables. She gives him pork and chicken meat but nothing helps. Nothing she can find fills the baby, and he constantly cries and doesn’t sleep. Finally, after over 300 sleepless nights, the mother finds a solution to this constantly growing hunger. She takes a long shower and prepares herself: she shaves her legs and armpits, she washes her hair, she brushes her teeth, all so she can be clean and ready for her baby. She has, once and for all, realised how to fulfil her baby’s insatiable hunger.
Topic
single mother
motherhood
child
sleep
fairytale
tired
love
food
hunger
reality
consume
parent
life
feeding
milk
maternal
nap
baby
woman
Exhibitions
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“Matyas” was selected for the Dublin Feminist Film Festival 2018, Desert Edge Global Film Festival in India 2018 and Mother Art Prize in London 2019.
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Bara Palcik
baby
child
feeding
film
hunger
maternal
milk
motherhood
nap
single mother
woman
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Medium
film
sculpture
textile
photography
installation
Location
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Ascot
Berkshire
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_24734"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_25484" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">My work comes from a position of ambivalence – more specifically through ambivalent motherhood. My father died when I was a child and my mother before I had my own children. The chain from parent to child to becoming a parent oneself was broken. My work is around the space between these broken links.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_24734"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_24734"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_25185"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521640730501_25485" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">In psychoanalysis the container/contained notion, as introduced by Wilfred Bion, holds a neutral position, without judgement, that can be used as an approach to thinking about motherhood. It provides numerous ways of probing the question: 'who is the container and who is the contained?'. How does the relationship between mother and child stand at any one moment? How does one see oneself - as a mother or as a child? What is the basis of the container at that moment? What is the emotion of the contained? The container can be actual, practical, or explicit. It can be metaphoric, emotional or implicit. Container/contained is a recurring theme in my work as I explore the fluctuating emotions of ambivalence.</span></span></div>
Topic
maternal ambivalence
maternal relationships
container / contained
depression
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/299">Left Overs</a>
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Jane Glennie
depression
film
installation
maternal ambivalence
photography
sculpture
textile
United Kingdom
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/168804441" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://vimeo.com/168804441</a>
Medium
film
video
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Sofia
Bulgaria
Artist Statement
Ever since Stiliyana fell pregnant in 2015, she has been exclusively interested in the maternal-female body as a ‘subject-in-process’. The methods used for the examination is taking the woman as both the surveyor and the surveyed within her entity as two constituent, yet always distinct elements within her identity as a woman. ‘Women watch themselves being looked at’. <br /><br />During the birth of her daughter Stelena, her artistic focus took more institutional direction and started questioning the definition of labour during the negotiations between the woman and institution. A question which arose during the birth was whether the woman’s labour begins when she is officially admitted to the hospital and agreed by the personnel and whether the maternal experience is filtered through a screen of social influences. <br /><br />Her film ‘Parturition’, shot whilst giving birth at St Thomas’s hospital used the personal processes of both labour and birth as instruments to trace their appearances as a journey outside memory and rational thought, to a place that supplies material for the production of meaning that remains forever out of reach, but turning it into a live project by directing and acting in a diversification of roles. The artist believes that the processes of both birth and labour are the transformative events through which the birthing mother would be able to recognise, consequently materialise her subjectivity. The conceptual division which the woman experiences during birth giving creates a space of progression. Progression from the internal feminine environment of the womb to the external space of life itself. The consciousness becomes the expanding womb as the woman turns into an extension.
<br /><br />Stiliyana continues to be interested in the theme of deinstitutionalisation. She would like the birthing mother to be turned from a medical object into a celebratory matriarchal reproductive economy. Birth is neither a disease, nor an illness. In fact, it is the most beautiful battle which leads to even more beautiful experience, the one of motherhood.
Topic
reproduction
birth
womb
medicalization of birth
labor and delivery
subjectivity
maternal body
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/299" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Left Overs</a>
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Stiliyana Minkovska
birth
Bulgaria
childbirth
England
film
labor and delivery
London
medicalization of birth
reproduction
Sofia
subjectivity
video
womb
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Website
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<a href="http://komsomolfilms.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://komsomolfilms.com/</a>
Topic
childbirth
pregnancy
labor
care labor
maternal anxiety
feminism
Medium
film
video
Artist Statement
IRENE LUSZTIG is a filmmaker, visual artist, archival researcher, and amateur seamstress. Her film and video work mines old images and technologies for new meanings in order to reframe, recuperate, and reanimate forgotten and neglected histories. Often beginning with rigorous research in archives, her work brings historical materials into conversation with the present day, inviting viewers to explore historical spaces as a way to contemplate larger questions of politics, ideology, and the production of personal, collective, and national memories. Much of her work is centered on public feminism, language, and histories of women and women’s bodies, including her debut feature Reconstruction (2001), the feature length archival film essay The Motherhood Archives (2013), the ongoing web-based Worry Box Project (2011), and her newest performative documentary feature Yours in Sisterhood (2018).
Location
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Santa Cruz
California
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Complicated Labors</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/64" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Marternalisms - Chile</a>
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Irene Lusztig
Title
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Irene Lusztig
California
care labor
childbirth
feminism
film
labor
maternal anxiety
pregnancy
Santa Cruz
video
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<a href="http://www.gudrunfilipska.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gudrunfilipska.com/</a>
<a href="https://theshelfgallery.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://theshelfgallery.wordpress.com/</a>
Medium
film
photography
printmaking
Artist Statement
<strong>The Shelf Gallery:</strong><br /><p>The Shelf Gallery is a small gallery space on a shelf in our house in Fordham, Cambridgeshire. The gallery is situated above our record collection and below our book shelves and is run by me, <a href="http://www.gudrunfilipska.com/">Gudrun Filipska</a> and my daughter Sigi. We specialise in showing diminutive and site specific works and curate a running programme of tiny exhibitions. The shelf gallery was started as part of my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/residencyinmotherhood/">Artists residency in motherhood</a> in 2016.</p>
<p>The concept of the Shelf Gallery makes a statement about the difficulty in obtaining and affording a ‘traditional gallery space’ as well as raising issues around the tensions between domestic and ‘professional’ spaces and the implicit assumption within the industry that these spheres remain separate.</p>
<p>It addresses the difficulties in conducting an artistic or curatorial practice within a domestic space and the challenge artists/gallery owners who are parents also face.</p>
<p>We believe we are the smallest open by appointment gallery in the world.</p>
<p>The Shelf Gallery will open in time for the first world wide <a href="http://www.wasbiennale.com/about/" target="_blank">Apartments and Studios Biennial</a>. Nov 2016 with an exhibition of photographic work by the <a href="https://gudrun-filipska.squarespace.com/config/pages/57aef3bd1b631b641dfdbe7e" target="_blank">fmr group.</a></p>
<br /><br /><strong>Artist Statement:</strong><br />My practice is interdisciplinary in nature, I work across mediums including drawing, print and video and also consider writing to be part of my practice. My work has at its root a concern with transience, particularly walking, and I make visual and auditory works primarily responding to industrial landscape and the territories which surround my home in East Anglia.
Location
The location of the interview
Fordham, Cambridgeshire
Topic
Artist Residency in Motherhood
home exhibition space
mother daughter collaboration
Apartments and Studios Bieniall
domestic space
curatorial practice
walking
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Gudrun Filipska
Title
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Gudrun Filipska
artist residency in motherhood
collaboration
curatorial practice
domestic exhibition space
home exhibition space
mother/daughter collaboration
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://raisecain.net" target="_blank">http://raisecain.net</a>
Topic
self-imaging
identity
mothering
authotheory
personal boundaries
Medium
performance
photography
film
writing
Artist Statement
My current work focuses on the prurient maternal. How is being a mother not a sexual act/event/activity? I explore the boundaries of motherhood using performance, writing, photography and film.
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Magda
Title
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Magdalena Olszanowski
autotheory
film
identity
mothering
performance
personal boundaries
photography
writing
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/shira.richter1/about?section=bio&pnref=about" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/shira.richter1/about?section=bio&pnref=about</a>
Topic
motherhood and political context
motherhood and economic context
motherhood and social context
invisible labor
mothering
motherhood
mother work
maternal body
postpartum body
Medium
film
photography
video art
visual performance
lectures
prose
academic writing
poetry
Location
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Israel
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/79" target="_blank">The Mother, Daughter and Holy Spirit</a>
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Shira Richter
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Shira Richter
academic writing
film
invisible labor
Israel
lectures
maternal body
mother work
motherhood
motherhood and economic context
motherhood and political context
motherhood and social context
mothering
performance art
poetry
postpartum body
prose
video art
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Name
Paula McCloskey
Sam Vardy
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="aplaceoftheirown.org" target="_blank">aplaceoftheirown.org</a>
Topic
maternal subjectivity
maternal trauma
maternal affect
family art activism
matrixial
social practice
research
art and research
family collaboration
Medium
writing
drawing
film
photography
performance
Artist Statement
A self-organised practice, a place of their own, is an open experiment, that we resist categorising as either art, research, everyday activism, spatial practice or film-making (and yet which engages with all of these things). Our practice engages the family in an exploration of the production of subjectivity. A place of their own is comprised of us two (Paula McCloskey and Sam Vardy) and our four children.
Location
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Sheffield
United Kingdom
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a place of their own
art and research
collaboration
drawing
family art activism
family collaboration
film
maternal affect
maternal subjectivity
performance art
photography
research
Sheffield
social practice
United Kingdom
writing
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<a href="http://www.pieshake.com/#!experimental-shorts/cx06" target="_blank">http://www.pieshake.com/#!experimental-shorts/cx06</a>
Medium
film
video art
Location
The location of the interview
Richmond
Virginia
Artist Statement
Since the mid-1990s, I have been making films about outsiders, misfits and everyday radicals, telling stories that occupy the intersection of intimate experience and public discourse. Several of these works are lyrical explorations of motherhood made with a hand-cranked 16mm film camera. These experimental shorts and looping projections mine the tension between the subjective, lived experience of women and mothers; our interior lives of fantasy and projection, and reality as refracted through our media-dense world.
Topic
motherhood
16mm film camera
maternal ambivalence
sex education
conception
gestation
pregnancy
families
homes
domestic life
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
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Sasha Waters Freyer
16mm film camera
conception
domestic life
families
film
gestation
homes
maternal ambivalence
pregnancy
Richmond
sex education
video art
Virginia