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<a href="http://www.bethwelchart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bethwelchart.com</a>
Topic
mother daughter relationships
memory
memory loss
dementia
caring for one's mother
role reversal of parent and child
caregiving
Medium
pen
ink
charcoal
vellum
Artist Statement
Memory is neither static nor absolute. The mind recalls memories imperfectly, adding and releasing details, never able to recall the elusive truth of personal history. Childhood memories are bound in this reality of remembered facts and forgotten particulars, true fictions unto themselves. No one teaches women how to be mothers. It is a skill learned through memory and emulation. A woman follows the teachings of the women who raised her, but only her own recollection of the lessons. Her memory is unerringly altered in the retelling of time. The maternal figures who so influenced her own course to motherhood are now only ghosts, hazy, their voices faint. By creating drawings of mothers in charcoal and their offspring in pen and ink I reflect on the blur of motherhood and the divide of the clarity of child rearing. The layers of vellum depict the separation of the past and future generations of women. Like memory, vellum slightly clouds and obscures the mothers. The images of the mothers are rendered in charcoal, which can be fuzzy, messy, and imprecise, like a child’s impression of a parent. On the other hand, the children are drawn in pen and ink, which is tedious and painstaking and permanent – much the way parents view childrearing. Pen and ink requires study – every line deliberated upon and purposefully chosen, much like every decision in parenthood. A child does not notice a new line on a parent’s face, or a new gray hair; a parent notices every scrape and scratch, the precise shape of a new tooth or the tremor of a closed eyelid. These mediums explore simultaneously what it means to be the child of a mother, and the mother of a child. Through this series I explore motherhood and the mutable remembrances of childhood in the context of memory.
Location
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
USA
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Beth Welch
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Beth Welch
caregiving
caring for one's mother
charcoal
dementia
ink
memory
memory loss
Mother daughter relationships
pen
role reversal of parent and child
vellum
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Composite Tension
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<a href="http://www.oliviadefleuriot.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">oliviadefleuriot.com</a>
Topic
maternal body
domestic labor
mother/child intersubjectivity
Medium
fabric
yarn
thread
foam
wire
metal
ink
paper
Artist Statement
As an artist and mother, I interweave the performative gestures of motherhood in my soft sculptural forms, consisting of fabric, yarn, and thread. My recent work, presented in the four-part installation, "Composite Tension" ("Corpus", "Slew", "Cleave" and "Tensile"), is informed by a personal archive, "Documentation Series: Year Off" (2018), where I took videos of my maternal body in relation to my child. I re-watched the videos each day and wrote my observations in two notebooks. The notebooks recorded my anxieties of being a good mother; separation, and the weaning process. I shredded and incorporated the handwritten pages into the sculpture "Corpus". The pregnant body is a vessel for containment, yet it exudes and spills out. The messiness extends to how the pregnant/maternal body exists as a part of another and is undefinable within patriarchal-capitalistic society. Through the discourse of craftivism, I investigate the tensioned relationship between motherhood and the artworld. The sculptures in "Composite Tension" are more than just undefinable messy bodies—they are messy bodies with the potential to speak about care within an institution. The softness, labour, and time speak to care. As I place them in the gallery space they remain as caring objects; as soft undefinable bodies. They are messy bodies; they are political bodies.
Location
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British Columbia
Canada
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Olivia de Fleuriot Perry
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Olivia de Fleuriot Perry
and paper
domestic labour
fabric
foam
ink
maternal body
metal
mother/child intersubjectivity
thread
wire
yarn
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Name
Katherine Rutecki
Website
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<a href="http://www.katherinerutecki.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.katherinerutecki.com</a>
Topic
woman's work
divisions of self as artist/mother
identity
Medium
glass
cast metal
ink
paper
Artist Statement
Katherine Rutecki is a multidisciplinary artist who specializes in cast glass sculpture and in recent years has expanded into performative works. Rutecki’s current work explores defenses and boundaries of self. She holds a BFA in sculpture from the New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University, New York and a MFA in glass from Southern Illinois University, Illinois. She has been involved in several international group exhibitions, taking place at such venues as the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Ebeltoft Glass Museum in Denmark; and solo exhibitions in the US, New Zealand, and Europe.
Location
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Aukland
New Zealand
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Katherine Rutecki
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Katherine Rutecki
Aukland
cast metal
glass
identity
ink
mother/artist identity
New Zealand
paper
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<span> </span><a href="http://www.flaviatesta.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.flaviatesta.com&source=gmail&ust=1558475421194000&usg=AFQjCNFuBwCrjZVuYmcbIBtpDUd8A_JtsA" rel="noopener">www.flaviatesta.com</a>
Topic
motherhood art
Medium
ink
pen
photography
Artist Statement
Raw, Outsider art, about real life in motherhood and beyond.
Location
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
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Flavia Nasrin Testa
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Flavia Nasrin Testa
Halifax
ink
Nova Scotia
outsider art
outsider artist
pen
photography
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<a href="http://www.saskiasaunders.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.saskiasaunders.com</a>
<a href="http://www.instagram.com/saskia_saunders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.instagram.com/saskia_saunders</a>
Medium
Textile sculpture
fabric
paper
acrylic
monoprints
Location
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Buckinghamshire
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
Saskia Saunders creates textural artworks using domestic materials, such as string, household linens and paint, that are metaphors for the fragility of life. This triptych of monoprints explores the ebb and flow of Saunders' identity, at times all consumed by motherhood, at times emboldened by it. The print blocks were created from nappy sacks wrapped around baby car seat packaging, the detritus of Saunders' day to day life as a mother.
From her travels in Japan, Saunders is inspired by the concepts of negative space (Ma) and embracing imperfections (Wabi-sabi).Creating space in each piece for the mind to focus, notice details and the light between.
Saunders' work is strongly linked to a sense of place, the home. Her art is an invitation to experience a calm pause, a moment of contemplation in a world of clutter and noise.
Saunders achieved a First Class degree Woven Textiles at the University of Brighton and has worked with woven textile design companies and social enterprises in New York, China and Cambodia.
Topic
motherhood
car seat
nappies
diapers
detritus of motherhood
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/299">Left Overs</a>
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Saskia Saunders
acrylic
artist residency in motherhood
canvas
detritus of motherhood
diapers
fabric
ink
monoprints
motherhood
nappies
paper
Textile sculpture
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Interlochen
Michigan
Medium
ink
graphite
acrylic paint
oil paint
animation
performance
Artist Statement
I am a young adult cancer survivor and recently had my first child. These life events have greatly impacted my creative practice. Confronting my own mortality at age 25 and then experiencing the fragility and strength of birth, I have become obsessed with tracking time- documenting the small, routine moments of my life and my child's life. I am interested in content and parts of life that loop and repeat. I find that abstracted, repeated marks communicate the passage of time and memory best in my work. I want to give the viewer intimate, personal moments that capture the both fleeting and endless seconds of being alive.
Topic
documentation
passage of time
mortality
tracking
repetition
play
alter egos
ritual
autobiography
Website
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<a href="http://www.meganlynnhildebrandt.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.meganlynnhildebrandt.com/</a>
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
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Megan Hildebrandt
acrylic paint
alter egos
animation
autobiography
graphite
ink
Interlochen
Michigan
mortality
oil paint
passage of time
performance
play
repetition
ritual
tracking