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Artist Parent Index
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<a href="http://www.NicoleMcCormickSantiago.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.NicoleMcCormickSantiago.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
domestic
home
children
chaos
birthday parties
parenting
child-rearing
Medium
oil
charcoal
graphite
monotype
Artist Statement
I have always painted my immediate surroundings in an effort to decipher the world around me. Often my works depict familar domestic scenes with simple yet layered narratives. My most recent works are a thinly veiled attempt to navigate my journey through the convoluted dynamics of parenthood and the unavoidable life transitions inherent on this journey.
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Nicole M. Santiago
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Nicole M. Santiago
birthday parties
chaos
charcoal
child-rearing
children
domestic
graphite
home
monotype
motherhood
oil
parenting
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Website
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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.
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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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<a href="https://www.annalouiserichardson.com/about.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.annalouiserichardson.com/about.html</a>
Topic
parenthood
rural
regional,
danger
anxiety
documentation of rural motherhood
farming
animals
Artist Residency in Motherhood
Medium
drawing
charcoal
installation
Artist Statement
Anna Louise Richardson is an artist and freelance curator investigating rural Australian identity and associated mythologies. Richardson works primarily in charcoal and graphite on cement fibreboard, using a realistic approach, flattened perspective, cut-out shapes and manipulated scale to amplify the subject matter. Her artistic practice reveals ideas of intergenerational exchange, parenthood and signifiers of identity based on her experiences of life in rural Australia living and working on a multi-generation family farm.
The complexities of human relationships with the natural world and the intergenerational qualities of these relationships are driving themes throughout her practice. Richardson's work depicts animals as a recurring motif to examine shared values on the role of animals in culture, commerce and ecology and how these are shaped through different histories, storytelling and imagination.
Richardson shares a studio on the farm with her husband Abdul-Rahman Abdullah– a Malay/Australian Muslim artist whose sculptural practice draws on the narrative capacity of animals to explore the intersection of politics, cultural identity and the natural world. Their two daughters, Aziza and Althea are the seventh generation to grow up on the property.
Richardson holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Curtin University of Technology, Perth and has been a practicing artist since 2014. Primarily a visual artist, since having her first child she has also contracted as a freelance curator working with Australian art institutions, festivals and organisations.
In 2019 Richardson completed Aziza’s Zodiac (2018-19), a 12-panel artwork featuring one animal for every month of a year after the birth of her first daughter. The work, a yearlong project created for an exhibition designed for child audiences reflected Aziza's life, told through the animals around her. This was the start of a new direction for Richardson's practice and serves as a record of her daughter’s personal history on the farm and responds to her own evolving narrative of motherhood in a rural setting.
Her most recent work examines what domestic and familiar objects may tell us about our own histories, presents and futures. She has been drawing objects that reflect household hazards such as rat poison, knives and power cords, highlighting the proximity of danger present in everyday life, particularly those that underline parental worry. These works speak directly to our common sense of anxiety about danger, our collective fear of death, and our innate need to protect the ones we love.
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Anna Louise Richardson
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Anna Louise Richardson
animals
anxiety
artist residency in motherhood
Danger
Documentation of Rural Motherhood
Farming
parenthood
Regional
Rural