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<p><a href="http://www.celiarocha.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.celiarocha.com</a></p>
Medium
drawing
photography
installation
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
Santa Ana
California
Artist Statement
<p>I am a Portuguese interdisciplinary artist living and working in Southern California. My lived experience and my interest in activism are the driving forces in my creative process. I use my artwork as a tool for activism, drawing on social issues that have affected me on a personal level, such as my experience of motherhood, the politics of childbirth or sexual violence. My artwork explores universal issues of gender and collective identity, culture, memory and loss, while it is imbued with the feeling of saudade, a typically Portuguese trait roughly translated as a nostalgic longing or yearning of someone or something of the past.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I have used a wide range of media - including painting, installation, social practice, video and sound - but drawing and photography remain at the core of my practice. Influenced by Vija Celmins's drawings, Andrea Bowers use of text and activism and Suzanne Lacy’s commitment to social justice, my work examines inequality and is borne out of a desire to call attention to the often invisible and overlooked issues that affect primarily women.<br /><br />@celiarochastudio</p>
Topic
parenting
caretaking
pregnancy
labor
childbirth
motherhood
maternal
c-section
cesarean section
natural birth
home birth
feminism
breastfeeding
baby clothes
babies
children
maternal mortality
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
2021 <a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/606" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maternochronics</a> | Virtual exhibition | maternochronics.com
2018 Maternal Matters | Bolsky Gallery | Otis College of Art and Design | Los Angeles
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Title
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Célia Rocha
babies
baby clothes
breastfeeding
c-section
California
caretaking
cesarean section
childbirth
children
drawing
feminism
home birth
labor
maternal
maternal mortality
motherhood
natural birth
parenting
photography
pregnancy
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.noelash.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.noelash.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
childrearing
childbirth
Medium
oil painting
watercolor
woodworking
Artist Statement
For two months my daughter refused to bathe. What was once a non-issue now haunted us both, and we each had our coping mechanisms: she begging and wailing and writhing, I waiting her out, struggling to keep her little skull from dashing on the porcelain. My sanity always felt in peril, and I stared deep into the foggy glow of the tiled walls. I could never predict the transition from weeping into giggling, the point when her little person couldn’t pour all her focus onto fighting me. Distracted by the pleasure of warm water, she somehow forgot to keep crying, and I’d breathe to help my brain cool down.
These episodes became, for me, an example of the sheer pointless misery of many of the tasks of housewifing. Contrary to our culture’s deeply held belief that women’s biological need to nurture makes tending to her home a satisfaction, I find housework to be what it is: a chore. This includes many of the tasks involving my ofttimes delightful children. For me, last spring, the worst was the bath.
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/439">WHY MOM</a>
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Noël Ash
Title
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Noël Ash
childbirth
childrearing
motherhood
oil painting
watercolor
woodworking
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The Artist's website
<p class="p1"><a href="jesstaylorartist.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jesstaylorartist.com</a></p>
Medium
sculpture
new media
Location
The location of the interview
Adelaide
Australia
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I am an early career artist whose practice explores my fascination with fictional horror through primarily digital methods of making. Within the broader realm of horror, I have a particular interest in monsters, voyeurism, and depictions of female brutality, sadism, and masochism. Using my own image and body exclusively, my work presents versions of womanhood that transgress the bounds of what we are taught is acceptable, uncanny spectres of female experience that society is keen to repress. Here, monstrosity is configured as a source of damnation and agency, reflecting womanhood as complex and contradictory.</p>
<p class="p2"></p>
<p class="p3">My own experience as a mother has been one of profound contradiction, of exhilarating highs and profound lows, of love and fury, comfort and trauma. I struggle to reconcile the fact that the greatest time in my life is also the one when it was the darkest, and that my body birthed a miracle but feels like a ruin. I am not as I was, but not quite sure what I am now; I’ve yet to turn into anything resembling the gargantuan mother archetype we’re fed, and too much of the old Jess remains for me to consider myself someone new. I have been transformed, reborn, reconfigured using the old parts. Some days those new parts feel like they were made of steel, making me infinitely stronger than I was, and other days that steel bites into my flesh, broken limbs fused back together suddenly failing to bear my weight.</p>
<p class="p4"></p>
<p class="p3">Motherhood is a monstrous condition; it is incredible and disturbing, beautiful and completely fucked up. Like monstrosity, it is transformative, and for the woman-monster, this transformation is a source of both agency and damnation, strength and weakness. My work since my son is in part an attempt to reconcile the contradiction inherent in my own experience of motherhood, and to bridge the divide between what I am and what we are told a mother should be.</p>
<p class="p3">Experiencing pregnancy for the second time has greatly influenced my work, causing me to reflect much more closely on the process of bearing a child. There is the strange bodily awareness and attempts to reconcile this cavernous space that exists within me, and evocations of my own paranoias as I imagine this space as a place of both hope and doom. I like to think there is also some absurdity when one looks at a ridiculous, bulbous woman, or my lady-giants, but there is also the tenderness of the nets that keep the babies close to her body, or the way a stomach is opened up to sate the curiosity of the smaller figures who peer inside. There is the sorrow of the figure on the bridge as she surveys the fallen before her (a mediation on periods in history where the practice of fallen-mothers ending their lives and the lives of their offspring was not only a grim expectation, but an act of redemption), and my attempt to see a ruin as a place of beauty and life.</p>
Topic
abjection
ambivalence
anger
anxiety
artist mother
attachment
autonomy
bad mother
birth
birth trauma
body transformation
boundaries
childbirth
contemporary
contemporary art practice
contradictions
domestic
family ties
female experience
female sexuality
feminine
femininity
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
fertility
grotesque
growth
guilt
identity
loneliness
longing
loss
loss of identity
maternal ambivalence
maternal anxiety
maternal body
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
mother
mother artist
motherhood
postpartum body
pregnancy
pregnant body
psychoanalysis
representation
science fiction
self portrait
technology
trauma
voyeurism
womb
women
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Title
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Jess Taylor
abjection
ambivalence
anger
anxiety
artist mother
attachment
Australia
autonomy
bad mother
birth
birth trauma
body transformation
boundaries
childbirth
contemporary art
contemporary art practice
contradictions
domestic
family ties
female experience
female sexuality
feminine
femininity
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
feminist theory
fertility
grotesque
growth
guilt
identity
loneliness
longing
loss
loss of identity
maternal
maternal ambivalence
maternal anxiety
maternal bodies
maternal body
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
mother
mother artist
motherhood
new media
postpartum body
pregnancy
pregnant body
psychoanalysis
representation
science fiction
sculpture
self portrait
technology
trauma
voyeurism
womb
women
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Website
The Artist's website
<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
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/299" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Left Overs</a>
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Title
A name given to the resource
Stiliyana Minkovska
birth
Bulgaria
childbirth
England
film
labor and delivery
London
medicalization of birth
reproduction
Sofia
subjectivity
video
womb
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Website
The Artist's website
<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
The location of the interview
Santa Cruz
California
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/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.robynleroyevans.com" target="_blank">www.robynleroyevans.com</a>
Topic
mother-artist
body
motherhood
pregnancy
childbirth
ambivalence
Medium
photography
video
installation
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Robyn LeRoy-Evans
Title
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Robyn LeRoy-Evans
ambivalence
body
childbirth
installation
mother as artist
motherhood
photography
pregnancy
video
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Resource Library
Book
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Editor
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/47">Rachel Epp Buller</a>
Contributor
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Heather Belknap Jensen
Marguerite Gerard
Deborah J Wilk
Paula J Birnbaum
Jessica Dallow
Andrea Liss
Erin Barnett
Cecily Cheo
Elzbieta Korolczuk
Charles Reeve
Mariangeles Soto-Diaz
Diana Quinby
Sandra Matthews
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/114">Gail Rebhan</a>
Jessica D Clements
Jackie Skrzynski
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/196" target="_self">Denise Ferris</a>
Maru Ituarte
Erika Swinson
Joan Linder
Nane Ariadne Jordan
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/204">Elizabeth MacKenzie</a>
Natasha Christopher
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Myrel Chernick</a>
Publisher
Ashgate
City of Publication
Farnham
Province of Publication
Surrey
Country of Publication
England
Date of Publication
2012
ISBN 13
9781409426134
Topic
feminist art theory
feminist theory
The Feminist Art Project
art history
maternal body
mother as artist
curating
breastfeeding
motherhood
childbirth
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Reconciling Art and Mothering
art history
breastfeeding
childbirth
curating
feminist art theory
feminist theory
maternal body
mother as artist
motherhood
The Feminist Art Project
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Resource Library
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Author
Fiona Joy Green
Gary Lee Pelletier
Publisher
Demeter Press
City of Publication
Bedford
Country of Publication
Canada
ISBN 13
978-1-926452-16-6
Province of Publication
Ontario
Topic
motherhood
men
mothering
gender
queer parenting
pregnancy
fatherhood
queer identity
transgender
breastfeeding
masculinity
childbirth
Date of Publication
2015
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Essential Breakthroughs: Conversations about Men, Mothers, and Mothering
breastfeeding
childbirth
Demeter Press
fathers
gender
gender norms
masculinity
men
motherhood
mothering
mothers
queer identity
queer parenting
transgender
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Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.miriamwinsor.com/the-dual-impossibilities#1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://www.miriamwinsor.com/the-dual-impossibilities#1</a>
Medium
photography
writing
Artist Statement
Photography and text often have a symbiotic relationship; one aids and enhances our understanding of the other. We are able to create nuances of meaning by combining them.
In this project, I attempt to make sense of my expectations of motherhood, the reality of the experience and my emotional responses to both.
I use images and text relating to me and my daughter to explore the limitations of representation inherent in both mediums - it's impossible to fully represent the variety and breadth of the emotions or to show more than a tiny fragment of the relationship she and I share.
Topic
motherhood
expectations v. reality
childbirth
maternal guilt
mental health
Location
The location of the interview
Surrey
United Kingdom
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Title
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Miriam Winsor
childbirth
maternal guilt
mental health
photography
text
writing
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Exhibition Archive
Event
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Event Type
Gallery
Exhibition Website
<a href="https://womanmade.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://womanmade.org/</a>
Gallery
Woman Made Gallery
Curator
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/47" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Rachel Epp Buller</a>
Curatorial Statement
<span>“Mothers” includes moving works by 37 women addressing the culturally ubiquitous role of motherhood, historically under-represented in visual art. The artists utilize a wide range of media, from photography, video, 3D, and even frosted cakes. The artists’ individual and sometimes intensely personal approaches to the subject of motherhood vary as much as their media. The work speaks to personal experiences (as a mother or as related to a mother), social constructions of motherhood, the balance of home and work, the politicization of mothers, pregnancy, breastfeeding, childbirth, bodily transformation, miscarriage, loss, and fertility/infertility. Artists are using materials traditionally found in domestic settings including clothes pins, canning jars, and yarn. Others use iconic imagery such as the Madonna and child.</span>
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
Illinois
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
November 5 to December 23, 2010
Topic
motherhood
domesticity
politicization of mothers
pregnancy
breastfeeding
childbirth
bodily transformation
miscarriage
loss
fertility
infertility
Artists
Jjenna Hupp Andrews
Kiki Augustin
Melissa Ayotte
Linda L. Bacon
Adrian Baker
Shaun Bangert
Kristy Battani
Jolene Beckman
Cat Del Buono
Corinna Button
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a>
Barbara Diener
Sheila A. Donovan
Joy Christiansen Erb
Niki Grangruth
Luba Grenader
Kate Hansen
Kelly Harrington
Katherine Michele Hatchell
Judith Hladik-Voss
Phyllis Hofman
Lea Basile Lazarus
Stephanie Lerma
Melanie Lowrance
Elaine Luther
Julie Mader-Meersman
Jennifer McNichols
Maggie Meiners
Freyda Miller
Helen Payne
Nancy Roberts
Jaleesa Rosario
Sarah Rust Sampedro
Amanda Simons
Colette Veasey-Cullors
Lisa Venditelli
Ellen Wetmore
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Mothers
bodily transformation
breastfeeding
childbirth
domesticity
fertility
infertility
loss
miscarriage
motherhood
politicization of mothers
pregnancy
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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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Title
A name given to the resource
Birth Rites Collection
birth
childbirth
contemporary art
equality
Manchester
motherhood
mothers
society
United Kingdom
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
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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Title
A name given to the resource
Helen Knowles
birth
censorship
childbirth
homebirth
installation
Manchester
mixed media
motherhood
pregnancy
screen print
social media
United Kingdom
women
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Title
A name given to the resource
Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.emmafinucane.com/" target="_blank">http://www.emmafinucane.com/</a>
Medium
screenprint
photography
video art
performance art
printmaking
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Bray
County Wicklow
Ireland
Artist Statement
I develop artwork through dialogue, process based, participatory and collaborative practice. I investigate the way we connect and communicate with others and ultimately how it contributes to the quality of our lives. I am looking at the role of the artist in society and questioning how “useful” the role of art can be when entering into different areas. My work has frequently combined education, research and artistic practice. My visual research consists of screen print, digital images and photography, slides and video experiments. I have been using video in both documentary and performance based formats, combining live action with static projections, improvisation and language. <br /><br />I am currently Artist in Residence in UCD College of Health Sciences where I am the principle investigator on a research team with a midwifery lecturer Dr. Maria Healy (UCD) and midwife, Teresa McCreery based at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street. Together we are working on the research initiative: An interpretive phenomenological study: Illuminating childbirth experiences of women attending a midwife-led service via visual art works. Insights from this research will highlight women’s lived experiences of childbirth vis visual artworks and academic publications. The final artworks will be included in the UCD Health Sciences Library in book format as an educational tool alongside academic books.
Topic
childbirth
motherhood
maternal
education
parenting
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Title
A name given to the resource
Emma Finucane
Bray
childbirth
County Wicklow
education
installation
Ireland
maternal
motherhood
parenting
performance art
photography
printmaking
screenprint
video art
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Title
A name given to the resource
Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://meganwynne.net/work/motherhood/photography" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://meganwynne.net/work/motherhood/photography</a>
Medium
photography
Topics
The topics addressed within the Artist's work.
bed sharing
breastfeeding
motherhood
parenthood
domestic space
personal boundaries
Location
The location of the interview
Norfolk
Virginia
Artist Statement
My recent work focuses on the subject of myself and my daughters to speak about the intensity, intimacy, and interdependence of motherhood. Playing with the persona of the mother and the mother-as-artist, the work brings up uncomfortable questions about identity, autonomy, and childrearing.
The images are at once familiar and unfamiliar, inviting and repelling. The work often straddles the line between referencing the family snapshot and cold clinical documentation. There is also ambiguity in how the individuals in the scene are emotionally and physically relating to each other. This uncertainty helps to create a sense of surreality in the work, and dark humor and melodrama within the narrative further push this aspect of the imagery. I use these devices to reflect on the deeply mysterious, contradictory, and often unknowable psychological undercurrent beneath everyday experiences of interconnection.
The mother-child relationship is the most primary and foundational relationship in one's life. In addition, there is a deep transgenerational legacy of the mother-child dynamic, in which beliefs, behaviors, and past traumas haunt one generation to the next. In my work I explore my maternal inheritance, as I address the intensity and profound complexity of the bond I have with my children. These depictions of the maternal experience challenge dominant reductive and over-sentimentalized representations of motherhood, as well as idealized and over-simplified perspectives on childhood.
Topic
motherhood
bedsharing
domestic space
breastfeeding
personal boundaries
Artist Residency in Motherhood
birth
childbirth
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
A name given to the resource
Megan Wynne
bedsharing
birth
breastfeeding
childbirth
domestic space
lactation
motherhood
photograph
photography and motherhood
pregnancy
United States
Virginia