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Artist Parent Index
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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>
<p> </p>
<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>
<p> </p>
<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
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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
Publications
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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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<a href="https://www.metrasaberova.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.metrasaberova.com/</span></a>
Medium
video art
animation
performance
painting
installation
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Riga
Latvia
Artist Statement
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taking the bodily, medical and performative contents that make up my artistic practice, I use my own orchestrated experiences of medical tourism procedures as a public platform to encourage discussion about the cultural, political and social meanings assigned to the female body and its capabilities. The bodily interventions include tubal ligation in Thailand, hymenoplasty in Poland, IVF consultations in Bulgaria and full breast tattoos in Latvia. I believe that upholding the high status of motherhood and treating childfree people as deviations from the standard of motherhood is clearly limiting to childfree women in terms of their acceptance as valuable contributors to the society and as people free of biological determinism. The aim of my artistic research is to contribute to the growing field of investigation in the childfree lifestyle and to question the standard of the normativity of motherhood for women in the Western society and to link the social </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">stigmatization of childfree people with investigations in sociology, performativity, bioethics, body art, feminism and queer theory</span><b>.</b></p>
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Topic
childfree
motherhood
pregnancy
IVF
sterilization
gender
queer
body
feminism
bioethics
performance
Exhibitions
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<p><a href="http://kunstimaja.ee/2017/11/metra-saberova-pimpin-yo-mama-crib-avamine-17-11-kl-18-00"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Solo show Pimpin' Yo Mama Crib, curator Šelda Puķīte, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu, Estonia</span></a></p>
<a href="https://www.biennalejce.com/en/home/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jeune Creation Europeenne touring group exhibition in France, Italy, Denmark, Romania, Spain, Portugal and Latvia in 2018/2019</span></a>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Next Thing, Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, Moving Image Gallery, Bury, UK</span></p>
MOTHER, CINEMQ, Elevator, Shanghai, China
Queer Art(ists) Now, And What? Queer Arts Festival, The Mill Co. Project, London, UK
International Videoart Week of Lanzarote, CIC El Almacen, Lanzarote, Canary island
Hiding in plain sight, The Flying Dutchman, London, UK
is this (not) a woman, tAD gallery, Texas, USA
Visions, Nunnery gallery, Bow arts, London, UK
RETHink Art Digital Festival, Crete, Greece
Amy Johnson Festival, The 75 Seconds Film Challenge, Hull, UK
Big Screen, Latitude festival, UK
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Mētra Saberova
animation
bioethics
body
childfree
feminism
gender
installation
IVF
Latvia
London
motherhood
painting
performance
pregnancy
queer
Riga
sterilization
United Kingdom
video art
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.lucianarosado.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.lucianarosado.com</a>
Topic
memory
identity
failure
writing
list making
Artist Residency in Motherhood
artist/mother identity
Medium
painting
drawing
Artist Statement
In recent creative explorations I am examining my inner emotions not only in relation to a very specific moment of my personal life - becoming an artist-mother- but also establishing a link with the present moment of instability and uncertainty sensed in our contemporary society. What do we keep to ourselves and what do we share with others? I explore the concepts of memory, identity and place through visual expression. Most recently, I have been interested in exploring ideas of life expectations and failure. My work focuses in visually exploring hidden thoughts, feelings and memories and I get my inspiration from the natural element Water, music and the written word. I live and work in Cambridge since 2010. I hold a Degree in Painting-Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon and I have been exhibiting regularly since 2000.
Location
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Luciana Rosado
artist residency in motherhood
Cambridge
drawing
identity
memory
mother artist
mother artist identity
painting
United Kingdom
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<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.alanatyson.com/">www.alanatyson.com</a>
Medium
sculpture
textiles
performance
Location
The location of the interview
Wales
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p class="p0"><span class="c0">Alana Tyson’s work attempts to make sense of the world she inhabits. As an immigrant to the UK and a natural observer, she feels highly responsive to the contradictions of everyday life.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="c0"> </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="c0">Her uncertain questioning of diverse thematic concepts is a tactic for working through the problems she encounters, incorporating performance, sculpture and installation utilising found, altered and constructed elements.</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="c0"> </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="c0">Tyson is drawn to dualities and incongruities. A commonality between her chosen materials is their link to domesticity. Everyday items, such as suit lining or crochet cotton, become carriers of meaning and reflections upon Tyson’s deep-rooted responses. The material contrasts and tension within Tyson’s work transforms the mundane into the visceral.</span></p>
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<p class="p6"><span class="c0"> </span></p>
Topic
feminism
crochet
breastfeeding
motherhood
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Alana Tyson
breastfeeding
crochet
feminism
motherhood
performance
sculpture
textiles
United Kingdom
Wales
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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="http://www.jemimahpatterson.com/index.asp">http://www.jemimahpatterson.com/index.asp</a>
Medium
oil on glass
oil on mirror
Location
The location of the interview
London
England
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
'First Step' is an ambitious 9-part painting depicting a Victorian high chair painted on to antique drawers from the Victoria & Albert Museum. It brings forward the question of potential and what the future holds; how precious what we have is and how we can guide that. My more recent works since having children have developed and taken on a more playful aspect. Superimposed over the viewer’s reflection, these motifs, all intensely nostalgic, evoke childhood effectively thrusting one into his or her own past while keeping the immediate present as viewed through the mirror.
Topic
play
growth
nostalgia
playground
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Jemimah Patterson
England
growth
London
nostalgia
oil
oil on glass
oil on mirror
oil paint
play
playground
United Kingdom
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="http://www.procreateproject.com/portfolio/left-overs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.procreateproject.com/portfolio/left-overs/</a>
Curator
Dyana Gravina
Curatorial Statement
Artists participating in the ProCreate Project Mother Art Prize 2017 competition responded to the theme ‘Left Overs’: What’s left of our sanity, bodies, sexuality, time and identities when mothering? What remains unused or unconsumed? How do left overs feed creativity?
Artists
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/302" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mary Martins</a>
Aimee Bourne
Alex March
Anna Hughes
Daphne Groves
Dawn Yow
Elizabeth Schoen
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/307">Jane Glennie</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/305" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jemimah Patterson</a>
Jessica Timmis
Julie LeFevre
Martina Hynan
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/301" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michele Landel</a>
Odette Farrell
Paulina Kwietniewska
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/38" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Fallon</a>
Rajaa Paixao
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/312">Saskia Saunders</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/303" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stiliyana Minkovska</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/48" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tracey Kershaw</a>
Gallery
<a href="http://www.198.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">198 Contemporary Arts and Learning</a>
Location
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London
England
United Kingdom
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
November 16 - 29, 2017
Topic
mental health
maternal time
identity
maternal body
creativity
sexuality
mothering
mother work
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Left Overs
creativity
England
identity
London
maternal body
maternal time
mother work
motherhood
mothering
ProCreate Project
sexuality
United Kingdom
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Exhibition Website
<a href="https://onca.org.uk/whats-on/next/selkie-weaving-wild-feminine/" target="_blank">https://onca.org.uk/whats-on/next/selkie-weaving-wild-feminine/</a>
Curator
Alice Clayton
Gallery
O N C A
Curatorial Statement
Imogen Di Sapia reflects on the folklore of The Selkie through craft. This body of textile work is an exploration of motherhood and perinatal mental health through weaving, using the symbols and themes within the story to communicate the experience. The exhibition also considers ethical textiles and the use of materials and methods that consider animal welfare and the environment.
Location
The location of the interview
Brighton
United Kingdom
Artists
Imogen Di Sapia
Lily Waugh
Gladys Paulus
Joanna Hruby
Caroline Bond
Topic
motherhood
mental health
perinatal mental health
postpartum mental health
weaving
textile
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The Selkie; Weaving & The Wild Feminine
A Textile Exhibition by Imogen Di Sapia
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Imogen Di Sapia
Brighton
mental health
perinatal mental health
postpartum mental health postpartum health
textile
United Kingdom
weaving
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The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.pennydavis.com" target="_blank">www.pennydavis.com</a>
Topic
making with children
play
toys
food
naughtiness
mother's verb list
Medium
sculpture
video performance
Location
The location of the interview
Leicester
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
I am an artist working primarily in sculpture but also, drawing and video performance. I am interested in exploring the connections between maternal subjectivity and sculptural form and process. Building upon the legacy of artists such as Barbara Hepworth and Phyllida Barlow but also inspired by Richard Serra’s ‘Verb List’, I make sculptural assemblages using materials for their specific values as they can be applied to my experience of motherhood. Most recently this practice has extended to video and performance and I have begun to use my own children as assistants in the work I produce.<br /><br /> Aesthetically and politically, I am engaged with a history of abstract sculpture which carries the weight of a very masculine modernism, minimalism and post-minimalism. Yet, I am particularly interested in how Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theories of maternal experience intersect with existing assumptions of abstraction in contemporary sculpture, of how sculpture might reveal the physical and emotional tensions of maternal ambivalence. I am interested in how abstraction can articulate maternal embodiment and the phenomenological experience of motherhood and how the interactions between form and material might reveal this.<br /><br />The sculpture has become concerned with this relationship between mother and child as temporary and contingent. The materials are both fragile and of low value: willow, packaging, polystyrene, building materials. There is a combination of natural and synthetic, using materials and processes to explore tensions associated with fine art and craft. The integrity of support is always in question in the sculptures dependency upon the environment. The viewer is never quite sure of which part supports what, and if you took a part away, there is the feeling that the entire structure would fall apart. An illusionistic treatment of material generates a mystery around its original identity – natural apes synthetic and vice versa. Within the construction, qualities of weight and strength are confused by their placement in relation to other sculptural parts or to the architecture. Surfaces are intensely worked to create a contradiction in scale: the viewer must physically engage with the sculpture whilst also pausing to observe intimate surface detail.
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Penny Davis
Title
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Penny Davis
food
Leicester
play
sculpture
toys
United Kingdom
video performance
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<a href="http://www.joannarosenfeld.co.uk/home/4580745371" target="_blank">http://www.joannarosenfeld.co.uk/home/4580745371</a>
Medium
Theatre Maker
Location
The location of the interview
Brighton and Hove
England
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
Motherhood: (Un)speakable, (Un)spoken is devised & performed by Joanna Rosenfeld, and devised & directed by Kath Burlinson. Lou Cope is our dramaturge and Tessa Howell our producer. Design is by Ellan Parry and Peta Taylor with music composed by Sined Jones. Supported by the Free Space Gallery, Kentish Town, the Nightingale and funded by the Arts Council of England. An early work in development was presented at The Works at Brighton Dome in February 2015. The resulting hour long performance after an r&p period was presented in November 2015, both at the Lantern Theatre, Brighton and the Bread and Roses Theatre, London.
Joanna Rosenfeld says; "Unsurprisingly, I began to consider the subject of motherhood, thirteen years ago before the arrival of our first child. After experiencing a traumatic birth I felt alienated and unrepresented in my cultural environment. I kept wondering why nobody had told me about the realities of birth, the brutality of sleep deprivation, the depth of potential grief and the darkness of post-natal depression. I searched, but found very few prepared to speak with honesty, truth and authenticity. So, being a theatre maker, I began to make. I searched for ways into this complex subject, toward an understanding and a truth...ways that might lead me to a healing place, help me feel okay, normal and enable me then to define my own motherhood. I found support from the Nightingale, started working with friend and mentor, director Kath Burlinson and have received funding from Arts Council England".
"Countless interviews, workshops at Lewes New School and the Brighton Dome in collaboration with Free University Brighton, and the International Women's Day, improvisations, deep felt moments of glory and shame and months of quiet reflection have now shaped the piece Motherhood: (Un)speakable, (Un)spoken, a collection of real stories from real women, unified by their honesty and courage in addressing the best kept secret, what it actually takes to be a mum".
Brighton-based artist Joanna Rosenfeld returns to the stage, thirteen years after her last full production to present Motherhood: (Un)speakable, (Un)spoken. An unflinchingly honest journey and collaboration with mothers from across Sussex.
Motherhood: (Un)speakable, (Un)spoken uses storytelling, live painting, projection and puppetry to explore subjects often culturally marginalised and aims to open a dialogue with audiences about what beliefs, assumptions and expectations exist around the idea of motherhood; accompanied by an original score.
"The one who leaves her child to cry because she might hit her"; "The one who feeds her child liquidized Mars Bars at four months", "The one who left two of her children in Australia to pursue the man she loved." Through a framework we call "The One Who....", rolling visual and spoken text based on true stories of mothers confronts the audience with what they believe constitutes "good" or "proper" mothering. These true statements, presented without judgment, encourage the audience to reflect on their own conscious and unconscious attitudes, beliefs and judgments.
Topic
motherhood
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Joanna Rosenfeld
acting
London
motherhood
performance
theatre
United Kingdom
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.axisweb.org/p/alisononeill/#artwork" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.axisweb.org/p/alisononeill/#artwork</a>
Medium
drawing
film & video
installation
research
Location
The location of the interview
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p>My practice based research uses autoethnographic and feminist methodologies to examine maternal subjectivities with a particular focus on the mother as a classed and gendered subject.</p>
<div class="more">
<p>I am also interested in the performativity of motherhood and in examining narratives of the good and bad mother and how these narratives are perpetuated in everyday encounters and experiences.</p>
</div>
Topic
motherhood
feminist theory
the maternal
autoethnography
subjectivity
memory
remembering
performativity
class
Publications
A catalog or monograph published by the artist
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/463">The Maternal in Creative Work Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art, Contributor</a>
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Alison O’Neill
autoethnography
Cambridge
class
drawing
feminist theory
film
installation
memory
motherhood
performativity
remembering
subjectivity
the maternal
United Kingdom
video
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.debbieleeart.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.debbieleeart.co.uk</a></span>
Medium
painting
drawing
prints
Location
The location of the interview
Leicester
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<span>My style developed by working over the discarded paintings of children, combining the random marks of a child with the handwriting of an adult. Art processes from other cultures have also influenced my work, in particular Indian Patua and glass painting. My Irish grandmother passed down her gift for storytelling through art to create personal narratives. Most important to me are my two children who are a constant source of inspiration.</span>
Topic
children
parent
storytelling
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Title
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Debbie Lee
children
drawing
Leicester
painting
parent
prints
storytelling
United Kingdom
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Exhibition Archive
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Location
The location of the interview
Manchester
United Kingdom
Curator
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/131" target="_blank">Helen Knowles</a>
Curatorial Statement
<p>An exhibition exploring the politics and practice of childbirth through contemporary artwork, uniting artists and childbirth professionals to consider the social, cultural and political implications of the way we give birth.<br /><br />Advances in biomedical technology and the shift towards medical intervention in birth have coincided with a focus on ensuring women have an equal footing with men in the workplace, which, potentially, has reduced their importance as mothers. In this context, how free are women to give birth how they want and where they want?</p>
<p><br />Birth rites was initiated by Helen Knowles, an artist and curator, whose contrasting experiences of hospital caesarean and home birth spurred her to question society’s approach to birth. She has been working alongside Phoebe Mortimer, Head of Public Programmes, to bring Birth Rites to the attention of the general public.</p>
Artists
Jaygo Bloom
Juan delGado
Suzanne Holtom
Andy Lawrence
Ping Qiu
Hermione Wiltshire
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
20 September to 30 November 2008
Event Type
Exhibit
Exhibition Website
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://birthrites.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://birthrites.org.uk/</a></span>
Museum
Manchester Museum
Topic
childbirth
birth
society
mothers
motherhood
equality
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Birth Rites
birth
childbirth
contemporary art
equality
Manchester
motherhood
mothers
society
United Kingdom
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Artist Parent Organization Database
Service
An organization supporting artist parents.
Location
The location of the interview
Manchester
United Kingdom
Topic
contemporary art
childbirth
birth
mothers
motherhood
equality
About
The Birth Rites Collection is the first and only collection of contemporary artwork dedicated to the subject of childbirth. The collection currently comprises of photography, sculpture, painting, wallpaper, drawing, new media, documentary and experimental film. It is housed between the Royal College of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians in London and Salford University Midwifery Department.
Organization Website
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://birthritescollection.org.uk/home/4541196091" target="_blank">http://birthritescollection.org.uk/home/4541196091</a></span>
Organzation Director
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/131" target="_blank">Helen Knowles</a>
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Birth Rites Collection
birth
childbirth
contemporary art
equality
Manchester
motherhood
mothers
society
United Kingdom
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.helenknowles.com/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.helenknowles.com/index.php</a>
Medium
installation
mixed media
screen print
Location
The location of the interview
Manchester
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<span>HELEN KNOWLES (b.1975) is an artist and curator of Birth Rites Collection. She studied at Glasgow School of Art and Goldsmiths University on the MFA and lives and works in Manchester and London. Recent exhibitions include; Goldsmiths University Interim show, (2015), COLLABORATE! Oriel Sycarth Galley Wrexham, (2015), The Withdrawing Room, Folkstone, (2014), Mokuhanga, Tokyo (2014), ‘Private View : Public Birth’, GV Art London (2013), Women’s Art Library, Kingsway Corridor Programme, Goldsmiths University, London (2013); Life is Beautiful’, Galerie Deadfly, Berlin (2012); Digital Romantics, Dean Clough Gallery (2012) and Walls are Talking, Whitworth Art Gallery (2010). She recently carried out a residency in Moscow/Vishny Volochok with the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art. Knowles has carried out other residencies at Santa Fe Arts Institute (2013), Gatley Primary (2010), UCLAN (2002) and Jodrell Bank Science Centre and Arboretum (1999-2001). A recipient of awards from Arts Council England, The Amateurs Trust and winner of The Great Art Prize, Neo Art Prize (2012). Her work is held in public and private collections including, The Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, Winchester Special Collections, The National Art Library, RCA and GSA Special Collections, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Tate Library and Archive, Museum of Motherhood, New York and Birth Rites Collection.</span>
Topic
birth
homebirth
childbirth
pregnancy
women
motherhood
social media
censorship
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Helen Knowles
birth
censorship
childbirth
homebirth
installation
Manchester
mixed media
motherhood
pregnancy
screen print
social media
United Kingdom
women
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Name
Rosie Garton
Ildiko Rippel
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.zooindigo.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.zooindigo.co.uk/</a>
Medium
video
photography
performance
Location
The location of the interview
Nottingham
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p>Zoo Indigo is an Anglo-German contemporary performance company based in Nottingham, founded by Rosie Garton and Ildiko Rippel. They have created performance work since 2002, touring regionally, nationally and internationally. The Company have devised many multidisciplinary performance works in collaboration with artists from a variety of disciplines, and produced a range of forms of work, including theatre-based performances, street interventions and interactive site-specific projects.</p>
<p>The performance work tends to stem from exploration with autobiography from performers and audience, with a focus on the innovative integration of digital technologies. With the use of humour, popular music and the reprocessing of cultural texts, (often iconic film images), the company juxtaposes the banalities of the everyday with the extraordinary.</p>
Topic
autobiography
humor
popular music
cultural texts
children
migration
home
displacement
motherhood
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Zoo Indigo
autobiography
children
cultural texts
displacement
home
humor
migration
motherhood
Nottingham
performance
photography
popular music
United Kingdom
video
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://jessicapaigegreig.blogspot.com/p/contact.html" target="_blank">http://jessicapaigegreig.blogspot.com/</a></span>
Medium
mixed media
sculpture
video art
installation
photography
collage
Location
The location of the interview
Nottingham
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<p>I am a mixed media artist, exploring themes of the Maternal, Relationships, Sexual Politics and the Cycle of Life.</p>
<p>I am particularly attracted to Flora's life cycle; I link these to human experience using Anthropomorphism and Pareidolia, these are documented via Photographs & Sculptures, where inspiration from the natural world has become fundamental to my practice.</p>
<p>My sculptures are made from non-traditional materials, based on seeds, their shape & form are often reminiscent of human body parts</p>
<p>Currently my work focuses on pregnancy, motherhood and in particular the dynamics of Mother-Daughter Relationships, Since becoming a Mother myself, I have become obsessed with trying to document 'Moments' & 'Memories', and the 'Essence of my mother', in an attempt to understand the complex relationship that I have with my own mother.</p>
Topic
maternal relationships
sexual politics
life cycle
human body
motherhood
mother/daughter relationship
pregnancy
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Jessica Greig
collage
human body
installation
life cycle
maternal relationships
mixed media
mother/daughter relationship
motherhood
Nottingham
photography
pregnancy
relationships
sculpture
sexual politics
United Kingdom
video art
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.dinahgold.com" target="_blank">http://www.dinahgold.com</a>
Medium
video art
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<span>I explore ways of watching, being watched and watching back, to realise ideas of speech, description and paradox through the medium of moving image. My work stems from an interest in, and long family history relating to, surveillance and voyeurism. I use my own family as a vehicle to explore critical concerns around human behaviors. I am using the work to make sense of my family and make sense of myself, I used different edits like an artist would work in paint, to create different textures which are like different levels of experience. Relating to a group of people who are close may involve different kinds of distance and closeness. The video helps me to explore and represent this, which is more complex than just being voyeuristic.</span>
Topic
family
surveillance
voyeurism
observation
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Dinah Gold
family
London
observation
surveillance
UK
United Kingdom
video art
voyeurism
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://amyfdignam.weebly.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://amyfdignam.weebly.com/&source=gmail&ust=1559842557155000&usg=AFQjCNEwH_uX-DziNyIOKQNSd8dl7CtuTA">https://amyfdignam.<wbr />weebly.com/</a>
Medium
drawings
photography
video
performance
installation
Artist Statement
<p class="paragraph_style_1"><span>Italian born, Amy moved to London in 1998 and graduated from Central Saint Martins College in 2005. Her work is mainly autobiographical but also holds a socio-political dynamic. Making the personal public her work originates from the female body, concepts of everyday life, loss of identity, the importance of memories and the abstraction of longing are central to her practice. Domesticity as a ‘visual language’ where maternal subjectivity is explored via different media such us drawings, photography, video installation and performance. </span></p>
Topic
motherhood
maternity
domestic
women artists
feminism
feminist mother
activism
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
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Amy Dignam
domestic
drawings
installation
London
maternity
motherhood
performance
photography
UK
United Kingdom
video
women artists
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/artistasmotherasartist/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/artistasmotherasartist/</a>
Gallery
Lace Market Gallery
Location
The location of the interview
Nottingham
United Kingdom
Curator
Sam Rose
Tracey Kershaw
Curatorial Statement
<p><em>Artist as Mother as Artist</em> is a co-curated gallery exhibition by Sam Rose and Tracey Kershaw, featuring artworks across the disciplines of video, dance on film, photography, sculpture, drawing, print, and live art and performance documents<em>. </em>Showcasing fourteen local and national artists whose practice is based upon the inseparable relationship between being an artist and mother, all works featured have all been nourished, enabled, influenced and created as a consequence of the artist’s maternal experiences.</p>
<p>Additionally, there will be a series of professional development opportunities and public participatory events that will consider how parenthood can enhance creative thinking. These events will encourage debate and conversation, making the maternal a critical component of artistic discourse.</p>
<p>Artist as Mother as Artist aims to inspire child and parent collaboration and encourage artistic practice amongst mothers, who may feel a conflict between their artistic engagement and their day-to-day caring activities.<br /><br /></p>
<p>Artist as Mother as Artist project is supported by Arts Council England, ncn Lace Market Gallery, My Family Care, Lumen PR, Jazz Hairdressing and Creative Quarter Nottingham.</p>
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
22 April to 19 May 2016
Topic
parenthood
motherhood
maternal experience
parent/child relationship
Artists
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/110" target="_blank">Nicola Canavan</a>
Nicola Carter and Seraina Dejaco
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/97" target="_blank">Paula Chambers</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/121" target="_blank">Amy Dignam</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/38" target="_blank">Rachel Fallon</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/127" target="_blank">Dinah Gold</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/128" target="_blank">Jessica Paige Greig</a>
Dyana Gravina and Lara Gonzalez from the <a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/5">ProCreate Project</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/130" target="_blank">Zoo Indigo</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/48" target="_blank">Tracey Kershaw</a>
Sam Rose
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/32" target="_blank">Helen Sargeant</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/31" target="_blank">Eti Wade</a>
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Artist as Mother as Artist
maternal experience
motherhood
Nottingham
parent/child relationship
parenthood
UK
United Kingdom
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Artist Parent Index
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.paulachambers.co.uk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.paulachambers.co.uk/index.html</a>
Medium
sculpture
installation
Location
The location of the interview
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
My mother was not a feminist, yet growing up in 1970s suburban north London I was witness to, and complicit in, her active refusal to conform to the expectations of a good housewife. Cleaning, tidying, dusting, washing up, were all low on the list of my mother’s priorities, instead she played tennis, she grew vegetables, she went out dancing; my sister and I were left to our own devices. As a feminist artist, I have adopted my mother’s domestic dissent, integrating it as philosophy into the processes and outcomes of my art making practice. I do not have a studio but make art in my kitchen; I rarely clean or tidy up, I utilize my domestic space and the objects that inhabit it, as a temporalized site of domestic resistance.<br /><br />The domestic objects and household ornaments of our childhoods take on an emotional value that shape our notions of self; that construct significant personal identities. In the body of work " "Transcendental Housework", I subvert these domestic objects that haunt our retrogressive imagination. This is dysfunctional furniture and ambivalent ornamentation. Sculptural objects, both floor based and wall based seem to lurk or loiter in the gallery space, they have a whiff of discontented anthropomorphism.
Topic
motherhood
feminism
childhood
domestic space
housework
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/404" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The M Word, One Paved Court Gallery, 1 – 12 May 2019</a>
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Title
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Paula Chambers
childhood
domestic
feminist
installations
motherhood
sculpture
United Kingdom
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.rosiegunn.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.rosiegunn.co.uk/</a>
Topic
motherhood
parenting
childhood
pregnancy
school
chaos
family life
domestic scenes
Medium
photography
video art
installation art
Artist Statement
The 3 screen high definition video installation ‘living room’, captures the banality of the domestic scene and contrasts this with the performance that the children create with in it. The living room is perhaps their stage – a place for them to try out ideas and show off. But also a multifunctional space for them to play, work, argue, relax and so on. It is a rather claustrophobic and chaotic piece that reflects the dominance that the kids have in the family living room during the holiday period. "As a mother and woman artist, I have been interested in my son’s games, words, songs and drawings and have made other work around these themes. Recently my daughter is becoming part of this work. The dialogue I have with my kids about the work I make is really important. I continue to ponder the implications of featuring my children in artwork that I might exhibit publicly and want to include them as part of a playful process in it’s development. I hope they regard the resulting images as representing celebration, desire, passionate attachment as well as sometimes showing trouble and tension."
Location
The location of the interview
Farnham
Surrey
United Kingdom
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Title
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Rosie Gunn
chaos
childhood
family life
Farnham
installation art
motherhood
parenting
photograph
pregnancy
school
Surrey
United Kingdom
video art
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
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
The location of the interview
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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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://lizziephilps.com/" target="_blank">http://lizziephilps.com/</a>
Medium
walking
installation
theatre
mother/daughter relationship
Location
The location of the interview
Bristol
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
I make participatory performance projects, including theatre, installations, site-based and walking events. The work is playful and irreverent, and explores the sensory, the landscape, and the ways audiences can create and negotiate meaning. I make performance to address the limitations of language, my fascination with identity politics, and my desire to illuminate and document the performative in daily life. I am currently developing Live Art walking practices around the personal geographies and the intimate (and simultaneously very public) performances associated with parenting.
Topic
maternity
motherhood
parenting
childcare
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Lizzie Philps
bristol
childcare
installation
maternity
motherhood
parenthood
theatre
United Kingdom
walking
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://kimdhillon.wordpress.com/invisible-spaces-of-parenthood-isp-with-andrea-francke/" target="_blank">https://kimdhillon.wordpress.com/invisible-spaces-of-parenthood-isp-with-andrea-francke/</a>
Medium
social practice
writing
Location
The location of the interview
Vancouver Island
Canada
Artist Statement
<span>Kim Dhillon writes, organizes projects, and makes works </span><span>that explore the legacies of Second Wave feminism and of Conceptualism. </span><span>She is part of the on-going research collaboration Invisible Spaces of </span><span>Parenthood with artist Andrea Francke. In 2010, Dhillon initiated _Crib </span><span>Notes _(2010-ongoing), a series of talks and tours for parents and </span><span>carers with children under 5 at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. She has </span><span>since 2012 led a campaign for changes in policy and infrastructure at </span><span>the Royal College of Art to increase accessibility, support, and </span><span>visibility of parents in the student body and faculty. This research led </span><span>to the publishing of a chapter on “Invisible Care: Care Provision for </span><span>Infants and Children in UK Art Schools” in the forthcoming _We Need to </span><span>Talk About the Family: Essays on Neoliberalism, The Family, and Popular </span><span>Culture _(Cambridge Scholars). She has developed a course module </span><span>"Radical Pragmatics" (2014) for MA level art and design students at the </span><span>RCA to re-imagine the potential of workplace childcare in an art school.</span>
Topic
childcare
parenthood
nursery
creative platform
feminism
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Title
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Kim Dhillon
childcare
creative platform
England
feminism
London
nursery
parenthood
social practice
United Kingdom
writing
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://traceykershaw.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://traceykershaw.co.uk/</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/tellmeaboutyourmother/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.facebook.com/tellmeaboutyourmother/</a>
Medium
social practice
video art
Location
The location of the interview
Nottingham
England
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
Tracey studied Fine Art at the University of Nottingham, and since graduating in 2011 has been developing her practice, which focuses on aspects of the maternal, including her evolving relationship with her son. She currently lives and works in Nottingham, practising from Backlit Studios.<br />Tracey’s maternal experience is central to her art practice. The profound and often overwhelming emotions that her motherhood brings have driven her to engage with other interrelated subjects such as fertility, ageing and the fragility of time passing.<br /><br />After creating and exhibiting a number of maternally-themed works, Tracey undertook a one year residency at the University of Nottingham in 2012/13, and used this time to start developing her current project ‘tell me about your mother’. While her early work focussed mainly on her own relationship with her son, ‘tell me about your mother’ takes a less introspective direction, aiming to both celebrate and expose the powerful, yet often problematic, relationships between mothers and their children.
Topic
motherhood
aging
fertility
passage of time
mother/son relationship
son
loss
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/404" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The M Word, One Paved Court Gallery, 1 – 12 May 2019</a>
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Title
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Tracey Kershaw
aging
England
fertility
mother/son relationship
motherhood
Nottingham
social practice
son
United Kingdom
video art
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Name
Lena Simic
Gary Anderson
Neal
Gabriel
Sid
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.twoaddthree.org/" target="_blank">http://www.twoaddthree.org/</a>
Medium
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
Anfield
Liverpool
England
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<strong>twoaddthree</strong><span> are Gary Anderson, Lena Simic add Neal, Gabriel and Sid.We are artists. We are activists. We are a family.</span>
<p>Mummy and kids are in the frame and Daddy’s behind the camera.</p>
<p>We are a nice nuclear family.<br />We are a hetero-normative unit.<br />Tesco loves us, Disney adores us and McDonalds can’t get enough of us.<br />We are complicit in consumer capitalism. We, the family, are the solid bedrock of society, at least that is what we are told. Instead we will dissent! We will have fun and take the piss. We have decided to organize a programme of events in our council house for the duration of Liverpool 08 and beyond.</p>
<p>We have decided to voice our discontent. We have decided to ask questions around art and culture, money and capitalism, private and public, familial and civic life.</p>
<p>We have decided to disobey. We, as a family, have decided to be naughty.</p>
Topic
activism
nuclear family
family life
domestic life
money
capitalism
social critique
domestic labor
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The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home
activism
Anfield
capitalism
domestic labor
domestic life
England
family life
Liverpool
money
social critique
social practice
United Kingdom
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.magda-stawarska-beavan.com/mother.php" target="_blank">http://www.magda-stawarska-beavan.com/mother.php</a>
Medium
printmaking
screenprint
digital audio technology
Artist Statement
In Mother Tongue (2009) traditional printmaking methods (screenprint on paper) connect with new (digital audio) technologies.
I use the recorded sounds of my child’s speech development, from his first noises when he was born, to the words and sentences which he has spoken since; from birth to three years old in three minutes.
My aim is to engage the viewer first with the work visually, by drawing them to the delicate marks on the paper, then to persuade them to try to decipher phonetic bilingual text or to interpret the waveforms. They can then activate the sound connected to the visual. Each sound pieces for each print is three minutes long and not repeated, this allows for a chronological audio experience.
The three prints depict recognizable visual representations of sound such as wave forms and phonetic symbols. These marks are visual artefacts of temporal sounds. Although these particular marks are associated wit the objectivity of technology and linguistics, the refined use of aesthetics; colour tone and scale bring to the work a level of personal account.
I am trying to represent a passage of time and preserve the ephemeral moments in the development of a child’s relationship with language.
This is also essentially an investigation into the parental obsession with passing on our identity through and to our children.
Topic
speech development
data visualization
phonetic symbols
audio waves
language
parental obsession
identity
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
Location
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Manchseter
United Kingdom
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Title
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Magda Stawarska-Beavan
audio
audio technology
audio waves
data visualization
identity
language
language development
Manchester
parental obsession
printmaking
screenprint
silkscreen
speech development
United Kingdom
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Exhibition Archive
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Location
The location of the interview
Barnstaple
Devon
United Kingdom
Topic
birth
pregnancy
research
interdisciplinary
midwifery
women and gender studies
social justice
early parenthood
research institute
About
Project AfterBirth began an exhibition intended to contribute to an interdisciplinary research initiative led by Project AfterBirth and a team of academics from the fields of obstetrics, mental health, midwifery, media studies, social justice, and women and gender studies, which is aimed at shedding light on modern pregnancy and birth practices and their impact on 21st century early parenthood experiences.
Organization Website
<a href="https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/</a>
Organzation Director
<a href="https://milaoshin1.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Mila Oshin</a>
Kris Jager
Gallery
<a href="http://www.whitemoose.co.uk/site/" target="_blank">White Moose</a>
Curator
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Mila Oshin</a>
<a href="https://drunkwithjoy.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Kris Jager</a>
Artists
Alison O’Neill
Amanda West
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/30" target="_blank">Belinda Kochanowska</a>
Carole Evans
Chris Anthem
Clare Archibald
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/27" target="_blank">Courtney Kessel</a>
Csilla Nagy
Danielle Hobbs
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/135" target="_blank">Debbie Lee</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/31" target="_blank">Eti Wade</a>
Geoffrey Harrison
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/32" target="_blank">Helen Sargeant</a>
Hester Berry
Ione Rucquoi
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/36" target="_blank">Jana Kasalova</a>
Jenny Lewis
Josie Beszant
Laura James Wray
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/111" target="_blank">Lu Heintz</a>
Madison Omahne
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/37" target="_blank">Magda Stawarska Beavan</a>
Marilyn Kyle
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/38" target="_blank">Rachel Fallon</a>
Rocio Saenz
Ruth Gray
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/35" target="_blank">Sasha Waters Freyer</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/11" target="_blank">Sarah Sudhoff</a>
Tareg Morris
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/62" target="_blank">Trish Morrissey</a>
Event Type
Exhibition
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Sat 3 Oct 2015 – Fri 13 Nov 2015
Curatorial Statement
The triumph of new motherhood. Stillbirth. Full-time fatherhood. Single parenthood. Miscarriage. Bringing up a child near a warzone. Bilingual speech development. Postnatal depression. Infertility. Adoption. These are just some of the themes dealt with in the 39 works of art showcased as part of Project AfterBirth; the first ever international exhibition on the subject of early parenthood, launching at White Moose gallery, UK, this October. Each of the 39 works in the exhibition – which spans the visual, performance, literary, film and digital arts – were made in the 21st century and represent the personal pregnancy, birth or new parenthood experiences of 30 international contemporary male and female artists. Due to the lingering taboo status of parenthood in the contemporary art world and its perceived inferiority as a subject, most of the works have never been shown publicly before. At times hilarious and at times deeply moving, the exhibition stands to leave a lasting impression on parents, but will also resonate with anyone in terms of their own individual birth and childhood journeys. The exhibition is also a first in demonstrating the profound influence pregnancy, birth and new parenthood experiences can have on the practice of 21st century female and male artists.
Exhibition Website
<a href="https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/</a>
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Project AfterBirth
birth
early parenthood
England
London
midwifery
pregnancy
research
research institute
social justice
United Kingdom
women and gender studies