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<a href="http://www.instagram.com/katie.gresham">www.instagram.com/katie.gresham</a>
Topic
motherhood
caregiving
labor
postpartum
maternal body
maternal experience
ambivalence
emotion
care work
artist mother
body
Medium
fiber arts
embroidery
collage
painting
drawing
Artist Statement
Using my own postpartum and motherhood experiences as inspiration and reference, I make art across mediums to express the suppressed emotions and burdens of mothering and caregiving in contemporary society. The mother figures are slumped, holding themselves up under immense weight, and either faceless or with faces overwhelmed by intense emotion. In my embroidery series, self-portraits are stitched in dusty cream colored thread that is nearly camouflaged against stained, once white kitchen towels that have been jaggedly cut in half. The faces are expressive, sometimes grotesquely so, conveying emotions that are often viewed as inappropriate for a mother in our society to have–rage, exhaustion, regret, ambivalence; faces that I reenacted privately for photo references. In contrast, the mother figures in my collage series are faceless. Their identities have been wiped away as they attempt to tend to the endless daily caregiving tasks while scores of child figures drag, climb, and play on them. This is an expression of American society’s assumption of the mother’s previous identity being erased. The child figures are colored vibrantly and cut from my children’s discarded artwork. They easily eclipse the neutral colored mother figure, cut from used parchment paper, just as a mother’s needs and desires are often overshadowed by those of her children. My work uses personal experience as a point of departure to portray and normalize ambivalence as part of the maternal experience–feeling intense negative emotions as well as unconditional love; enjoying time with one’s children as well as feeling held back or overwhelmed by them. As mainstream media and contemporary culture propagate a myth of the “perfect” or “ideal” mother, my work pushes back by validating the complicated, tense, ambivalent reality of caregiving and asserting the value of a more honest conversation about caregivers’ complex identities.
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Katie Gresham
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Katie Gresham
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<a href="https://www.lesliefandrich.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.lesliefandrich.com/</a>
Topic
bodies, pregnancy, the womb, breastfeeding, dependance, family relationships, domesticity
pregnancy
the womb
breastfeeding
dependance
family relationships
domesticity
Medium
textiles
fabric
found objects
sculpture
collage
mixed media
Artist Statement
My feminist, interdisciplinary art practice considers the interplay between subject and object and the liminal nature of our bodies. I create objects and spaces that may allow the viewer to re-experience and recall moments of transformation from childhood. I am interested in the boundaries of our bodies and how we are in relationship to our domestic spaces and to each other. I am interested in the pregnant/nursing/mothering body and how it holds and cares for other bodies and how our bodies change, age and need repair.
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Leslie Fandrich
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Leslie Fandrich
Bodies
breastfeeding
collage
dependance
domesticity
fabric
family relationships
found objects
mixed media
pregnancy
sculpture
textiles
the womb
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Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chloemarsden.nz/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@chloemarsden.nz</a>
Topic
Past work has explored female reproduction and her personal experience of infertility, miscarriages and IVF treatment. My current work is a response to my identity transformation of becoming a mother.
infertility
miscarriages
IVF
identity transformation
mother
Medium
I am a practice based visual artist. I work across mediums; drawing, painting, collage and photography- to find the perfect translation for each project.
drawing
painting
collage
photography
Artist Statement
My journey to become a mother started many years before I gave birth to my son. Years of fertility problems gave me a lot of time to reflect upon the implications both physically and emotionally, of becoming a mother. However, nothing would prepare me for the confusing mix of emotions I felt when my son finally arrived. I constantly felt split, in two minds about everything. The strong urge to protect accompanied by fear of the tremendous responsibility. I was confused by the power and powerlessness of my new role. I was no longer just my-self any more. I experienced deep love but also craved physical space. Memories of my own childhood, a severe lack of sleep and unrealistic expectations distorted my sense of reality. My current work focuses on my own identity transformation of becoming a mother and the often conflicting, all-consuming feelings experienced in motherhood. These contradictory emotions are described as maternal ambivalence. I believe a mother needs to know herself, to own up to the diverse, conflicting, overwhelming feelings brought up by motherhood. Whether she stays at home, goes out to work, is partnered or single. A mother who can face her own inner turmoil can in turn make sense of her child. If a mother can be herself with a child, and honestly express joy, anger, love, contentment - a full range of emotions - that will help the child to know themselves. By fully recognizing this early experience mothers -to- be could be made more aware they are entering a confusing and disorienting time. They could be better emotionally equipped to ride the experience of maternal ambivalence.
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Wellington
New Zealand
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Chloё Marsden
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Chloё Marsden
collage
drawing
infertility
IVF
miscarriage
mother
painting
photography
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<a href="http://www.meenakhalili.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meenakhalili.com</a>
Medium
digital illustration
collage
Artist Statement
<span>100 Days of Honest Pregnancy is a series of illustrations documenting 100 days of preparing body and mind for the unexpected. A drawing a day in our final trimester. Wide-ranging content laced with humor, overwhelming anxiety, and simultaneous joyous excitement. Artist Bio: MEENA KHALILI is a professor of design and interaction, who makes daily drawings of things. She is an artist who uses design as a strategy for creation, and a designer who brings artistic methods to her solutions. Khalili is the recipient of the National Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement in Graphic Design by the Southeastern College Art Conference. Her work has shown at the Type Director’s Club of New York, Chicago Design Museum, and galleries throughout North America, Canada, China, Indonesia, Croatia, Australia, and Moscow, with illustrations and book art in permanent collections at the VCU Libraries Special Collections and Archives, the Omni Hotel Louisville, and the Library of Congress. Her interdisciplinary research moves between traditional design and studio art practices and explores UX, storytelling, typography, and language through design, illustration, moving image, and book art. Much of her research takes inspiration from her experience as an Iranian-American. A native of Washington, D.C. and Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Visual Art + Design, Meena holds a BFA in Illustration and an MFA in Visual Communication + Graphic Design from VCUarts and completed study at the Illustration Academy, and the LdM Institute in Florence, Italy. Meena is the Co-Chair of the National AIGA Design Educators Community Steering Committee. In addition to her international exhibitions, she maintains an active speaking schedule with engagements and workshops throughout the U.S., and internationally most recently in Hong Kong, Doha, and Venice.</span>
Topic
100 Days of Honest Pregnancy, a first-person account, through digital illustrations
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Meena Khalili
collage
illustration
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<a href="http://www.milkdiaries.weebly.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.milkdiaries.weebly.com</a>
Portfolio: <a href="http://www.manabette.weebly.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.manabette.weebly.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
breastfeeding
parent-child mutual dependence
learning from the child
collaboration of mother and child
inclusion in the family
mother's aim to sustain herself from art making
Medium
writing
painting
photography
collage
drawing
natural fibre
singing
dance
Artist Statement
<span>I choose to celebrate my art through motherhood, and my motherhood through art. My work will promote inclusion and equanimity and will connect me to my child and my self.</span>
Location
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Lithuania
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Agnieszka Olszewska
breastfeeding
collaboration of mother and child
collage
dance
drawing
inclusion in the family
learning from the child
mother's aim to sustain herself from art making
motherhood
natural fibres
painting
parent-child mutual dependence
photography
singing
writing
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<a href="http://www.alicestonecollins.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.alicestonecollins.com</a>
Topic
caregiver
mother
suburban
mundane
family
home
stasis
comfort
Medium
gouache
paper
collage
Artist Statement
I am interested in the everyday. The mundane. And I look for beauty in these moments. Part of this is my experience with having kids. The repetition. The routine. The thousands of lunches packed and faces wiped. There is a common thread that all mothers have in these experiences, but also a true unique quality to these spaces in our lives. In my current pieces I'm exploring how we navigate the restraints often felt while in the trenches of motherhood and the contrasting energies of stasis and and comfort these borders bring. How does this impact the way we engage with our environment and each other?
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Alice Stone-Collins
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Alice Stone-Collins
caregiver
collage
comfort
family
gouache
home
paper
stasis
suburban
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<a href="http://www.marrinlee.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">marrinlee.com</a>
Topic
postpartum depression
gender roles/equality
climate change/the natural world
Medium
interdisciplinary
painting
soft sculpture
installation
collage
poetry
choreography
Artist Statement
"I make art to move through and express the intensity of moods. Energized by acute sensitivity, I write poetry and create sculptural paintings that parallel the Natural World and experiences in Motherhood.
Moving slowly, I layer ink, dye, pastel and acrylic, until friction gives way to visual balance. A tangle of abstract shapes ripple across the canvas in a choreography of color. As in life, movement is essential in the work I develop."
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Marrin Lee Martinez
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Marrin Lee Martinez
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Topic
motherhood
birth
blood
womb
yoni
breastfeeding
children
sex
grandmothers
symbolism
myth
feminism
Medium
acrylic
ink
collage
watercolor
mixed media
fiber
wheatpaste
Artist Statement
Tiana Traffas is currently creating a series titled Arcana Ma. Arcana meaning secrets or mysteries, Ma as in mother or motherhood: mysteries of motherhood. This ever unfolding body of work explores the taboos and experiences of motherhood through archetype, personal experience, mythology and symbolism from the ancient goddess cultures to modern-day mamas. It also includes work that views the other phases of womanhood, maiden to crone, and the life-death-rebirth cycle through the len of motherhood. Arcana Ma only exists because of her daughter's birth. The artist's initiation into motherhood cracked her wide open into a psychedelic and potent transformation, leaving her reborn on an emotional and spiritual level. The act of birth and the continuous trip of motherhood is the inspiration for this series.
Location
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La Crosse
Wisconsin
USA
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/439">WHY MOM</a>
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<a href="https://tianatraffasart.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://tianatraffasart.<wbr />bigcartel.com/</a>
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Tiana Traffas
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Tiana Traffas
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<a href="http://laurenfrancesevans.com/">http://laurenfrancesevans.com/</a>
Medium
sculpture
collage
video
installation
Location
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Birmingham
Alabama
USA
Artist Statement
As an artist, I am intrigued by the materiality of the flesh and believe it to function as a microcosm that points to various aspects of the immaterial human experience. Years before ever becoming a parent, I was already fascinated by the spiritual and cosmic significance of the human belly button and its relationship to the creative act. As a child I pulled at mine, trying to flip it inside out. Years later, as a graduate student, I poured plaster into it regularly, making castings of its negative space. The belly button is the first mark that life leaves on the body; it is a scar that points to our origins.
Many creation myths describe our world as originating from a central point. The Greek term omphalos (navel) can refer to various symbolic centers that are believed to connect the earthly and divine. Just as the human belly button marks our connection to (and inevitable separation from) our mothers, these so-called navels of the world are often associated with myths of cosmic origin, functioning as physical markers of the very sites at which our earth was supposedly born into existence. This symbolism can be found across cultures and religions: ziggurats, temples, holy mountains, the tree of life, and more.
I’m excited and inspired by the navel, umbilical cord, and placenta as both site and symbol of the simultaneity that is embedded in the human experience. Questions of origin and existence are constantly shaping how I think about my creative work, and my belief is that the work of the artist, and perhaps especially the mother artist, is primarily ontological. Just as the human belly button marks both a connection to and a separation from our physical origins, the work that I make points to a similar simultaneity of opposites, referencing the body’s attraction and repulsion but also the immaterial void of human longing in us all.
Before becoming a mother, I thought of attachment and separation as psychologies experienced by the child. I didn’t realize until experiencing it firsthand that, not unlike the blood circulating through the placenta, these psychologies very much go both ways. I’ve been thinking a lot about this entanglement and have been working it out in a recent body of work. At times I imagine vividly that my daughter and I are still connected by this cord. It’s a tug of war. Often, I tug at the cord, longing for my independence from her, and more often than not, she tugs to bring me closer, unwilling to let me exist apart from her.
Topic
pregnancy
breastfeeding
let down reflex
placenta
umbilical cord
belly button
knots
faith
religion
christianity
attachment
extended breastfeeding
creative act
origins
symbolic centers
Virgin Mary
Christ
breastmilk
breast milk miscarriage
birth and death
birth
artist mother
artist parents
art
artist network
artist/mother
artist/parent/academic
bedsharing
cosleeping
body
bodies
boundaries
devine feminine
early motherhood
early parenthood
education
embodied motherhood
embroidery
family and career
female body
feminist
gestation
lactation
Madonna
maternal
materiality
milk
nursing
pieta
subjectivity
teaching
ritual
Exhibitions
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Wrapped Up, Tied Up, Tangled Up – solo – 2019 – Samford Art Gallery – Samford University – Birmingham, AL
ArtFields – 2019 - The ROB – Lake City, SC
Art|Mother – Unfinished Business Art Show – 2019 – Los Angeles, CA
Are We There Yet? – CIVA Juried Exhibition (forthcoming - June) – 2019 – Johnson Gallery– Bethel University – St. Paul, MN
Simultaneous Letdown – solo – 2019 (forthcoming - October) – Gatewood Gallery – University of North Carolina, at Greensboro – Greensboro, NC
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Lauren Frances Evans
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<a href="https://elizabethmcfalls.com/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://elizabethmcfalls.com/home.html</a>
Topic
contradictions
everyday life
humor
life balance
life with children
storytelling
women artists
artist residence in motherhood
artist mother
contemporary art
Medium
mixed media
collage
printmaking
drawing
Artist Statement
Elizabeth McFalls (Libby) is a Professor of Art and the Department of Art’s Art Foundation Coordinator at Columbus State University. She received her MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art (MI) and earned her BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design (OH). Libby’s love of storytelling began in childhood. Having been raised in East Tennessee, she attended the National Storytelling Festival on numerous occasions. She recalls summers spent developing a love and appreciation for oral storytelling; she and her sisters were fortunate enough to spend a great deal of time with extended family that spread five living generations. While her work does not make direct reference to her family history, she creates nonlinear visual narratives that examine issues of loss and family. Her work explores moments that blur the line between fact and fiction, life and death, humor and sorrow, moments that demonstrate the contradiction and complexity of life. At the moment she is busy, in the studio, completing a one-year Artist Residency in Motherhood (ARIM).
Her recent body of work began when she embarked on a one-year Artist Residency in Motherhood (ARIM). During the ARIM she honestly responded to her life, time limitations, successes, and failures in an intuitive nature. The hybrid prints and collages reflect her love of storytelling through the creation of nonlinear visual narratives that examine issues of loss and family. Her work explores moments that blur the line between fact and fiction, life and death, humor and sorrow, moments that demonstrate the contradiction and complexity of life.
Location
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Georgia
USA
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Libby McFalls
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Elizabeth (Libby) McFalls
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Location
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Paris
France
Artist Statement
Michele Landel creates intensely textured and airy collages using burned, quilted, and embroidered photographs and paper to explore the themes of exposure, absence, and memory. She manually manipulates digital photographs to highlight the way images hide and filter the truth. She then sews layers of paper together to create bandages and veils and to transform images into fragile maps.
Michele is an American fiber artist. She studied Fine Arts and Art History at the University or Pittsburgh and the University of Texas. Prior to moving to France, she was involved with the Pittsburgh Three Rivers Arts Festival and worked for the gallery, Exit Art in NYC and the American Institute for Architecture in Washington, DC. Her work has been exhibited in the US, UK, and France. She lives and works in Sèvres, France.
Website
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<a href="https://michelelandel.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://michelelandel.com/</a>
Medium
paper
thread
embroidery
collage
multi-media
mixed media
Topic
loneliness
exhaustion
depression
isolation
confusion and anxiety juxtaposed with idealized domesticity and femininity
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/299" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Left Overs</a>
<a href="https://www.whoisyourshero.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sheroes</a>
<a href="http://www.59rivoli.org/2018/02/26/biowoman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biowoman</a>
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Michele Landel
collage
depression
embroidery
exhaustion
isolation
loneliness
multi-media
paper
thread
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<a href="http://www.luisacallegari.com">www.luisacallegari.com</a>
Topic
girls
raising girls
sexism
baby
fetus
dolls
pink
clichés
beauty
grotesque
gender
sexuality
contradictions
dollhouse
Medium
painting
video
collage
installation
mixed media
objects
photography
Artist Statement
I am a South American women artist and mother. I believe that one of the most important art roles is to make people think and reflect about unpleasant subjects and situations that would otherwise be forgotten or passed by. In my artwork I attempt to address those delicate subjects bringing up themes such as clichés and motherhood, contradictions of the feminine universe, constructions of gender and sexuality. I make my artwork with a variety of media that goes all the way from traditional painting and photography to perishable elements and installations. Currently I am privileging the use of pink as the beginning and end of my creative process, subverting the notions of beauty and grotesque.
Location
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
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Luisa Callegari
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Luisa Callegari
baby
beauty
Brazil
collage
contradictions
dollhouse
dolls
fetus
grotesque
installation
mixed media
objects
painting
photography
Sao Paulo
sexuality
video
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<a href="https://www.verastankovic.com" target="_blank">https://www.verastankovic.com/</a>
Medium
sculpture
installation
photography
collage
urban intervention
performance art
object
sculpture
photography
writing
interdisciplinary
Location
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Ljubljana
Slovenia
Europe
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I am fascinated by transformation processes.</p>
<p class="p1">I observe transforming spaces, economy, environment, cities, work, cells, bodies, knowledge, history, countries, roles, education, technology, relationships, selves, languages.</p>
<p class="p1">Becoming and being a mother is for me all about transformation. My first solo exhibition in the Zepter Gallery in Belgrade, Serbia was called Metamorphosis<span class="s1"> . </span>The objects I made used banal everyday objects (plastic bags) and transformed them into an immense vagina or into umbilical cords falling from the ceiling. This story from 1999 was a intimate story of separating oneself from the primary family and a story about the everyday and the environment.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">From 2006 to 2012 my partner and I went through a series of unsuccessful IVFs and several miscarriages. I did several sculptural works that documented this part of our lives - like the Womb exhibited in 2010 in Museum de Ceramica de l’Alcora, Spain. It was just about the pain, I guess.</p>
<p class="p1">In 2012, I was invited to make an urban intervention inside the Vesel Garden in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I was three months pregnant with my son and did not know what to expect about the occurring pregnancy. So I did an urban intervention with a participative performance and called this work Embryo garden. It was all about the thin line between life and death of the child to be, but also of the artistic child within myself.</p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s2">My experience as a parent has been both challenging and inspiring for me as an artist. I explored the relationship between the roles of artist and parent in my 2016 exhibition in the Glass Atrium of the City Hall of Ljubljana, called A Thank You Note To the Cleaning Lady. The work that lent its name to the exhibition questions the relation between reproductive, maintenance work and having greater purpose in life. As a whole, </span>the exhibition was born as a product of broken antagonism between being a parent and an artist and of cooperation between the two roles. The installation To Include Everything, Everything, Everything, Absolutely, Absolutely, Everything especially focused on that. And the work The Map is about the child experiencing and learning by himself, and the artist-mother just observing and taking notes. In this process, I sometimes feel as if steeling from him.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
Topic
play
daily life
work/life balance
parenting
domestic
artist/mother
fertility
infertility
vagina
parent/child collaboration
World War II
exploring
anger
cleaning
maintenence
everyday
powerlessness
ritual
grandmother's motherhood
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Title
A name given to the resource
Vera Stankovic
anger
archive
artist/mother
calendar
cleaning
collage
daily life
domestic
everyday
fertility
grandmother
infertility
installation
maintenance
Maps
motherhood
parent/child collaboration
parenting
plastic
play
Poljanska
powerlessness
Pozega-Slavonia
pregnancy
readymade
ritual
sculpture
Serbia
Slovenia
toys
vagina
womb
work/life balance
World War II
writing
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Location
The location of the interview
Edinburgh
Scotland
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk/</a>
<a href="http://www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk/artist-residency-in-motherhood/" target="_blank">http://www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk/artist-residency-in-motherhood/</a>
Medium
collage
installation
photography
text installation
Artist Statement
My work explores the ever changing roles and identities we take on as artist-mothers and how these multi faceted identities can be both connected and conflicted. Motherhood; a concept both revered and ignored, informs the works I produce through a mixed media approach; collage, photography, text installation and sculpture all come together and allow me to investigate my own multi faceted identity through a process of visual experimentation and written investigations.
Topic
Artists Residency in Motherhood
identity
artist mother
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Title
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Lauren McLaughlin
artist residency in motherhood
collage
Edinburg
identity
installation
photography
Scotland
sculpture
text installation
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.jessicaplattnerart.com/" target="_blank">http://www.jessicaplattnerart.com/</a>
Medium
collage
painting
Location
The location of the interview
Medicine Hat
Alberta
Canada
Artist Statement
<p>The pieces in this show were completed during my 2011-12 sabbatical leave from my position as Associate Professor at Eastern Oregon University. During this time I traded in my familiar oil paints in exchange for photos, magazines, scissors, and glue to create a group of collages depicting my infant daughter in a variety of surreal settings. The scenes were created using old doll-maker’s magazines, National Geographic magazines, Italian interior design magazines, and brochures for Canadian provincial parks and Tuscan tourism; combined with my own photos of the baby. The result is a strange world combining illogical spaces and multiple perspectives; alternately magical, disturbing, and beautiful. For me, these landscapes reflect the range of hopes and fears surrounding both childhood and child-rearing.</p>
<p>My work is driven by the technical challenge of piecing together intricate parts to create a cohesive whole. The transitions are never actually flawless, as closer inspection reveals sharp edges and layers of overlapping images from disparate sources. I find poetry in this complex relationship between the whole and the parts; where small pieces of imagery come together to form something altogether different and new. As a mother, I wish for all the complicated facets of society to come together harmoniously for my daughter’s safe passage. The Babyscapes collages render that impossible wish visible.</p>
Topic
parenthood
motherhood
landscapes
childhood
child-rearing
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Title
A name given to the resource
Jessica Plattner
Alberta
Canada
child-rearing
childhood
collage
landscapes
Medicine Hat
motherhood
painting
parenthood
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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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Title
A name given to the resource
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
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.roxanaalgergeffen.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.roxanaalgergeffen.com</a>
Medium
mixed media
painting
collage
installation
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Washington, DC
Artist Statement
<p> I’ve spent the last decade exploring the world of domestic life and family systems. Although I started as a painter, describing the chaotic and contradictory world of parenting seemed to require a multi-layered, eclectic approach, and I have expanded my practice to include collage, installation and photography. Recently, I’ve been drawn into the digital worlds my children inhabit so readily (in part because the subject of ‘screen’ causes so much debate and anxiety in the cultural discourse) and the imagery I’ve found there has been surprisingly inspiring and oddly familiar. One game had a pixelated, modular landscape—touched with moments of surprising, naturalistic beauty—that became an excellent metaphor for my domestic world. I use this imagery layered with realism, as well as a layering of techniques, to develop the idea of parenting and domestic life as a many-layered experience: funny, moving, and labor-intensive.</p>
Topic
domestic life
family systems
parenting
parenthood
realism
abstraction
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Title
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Roxana Alger Geffen
abstraction
collage
domestic
domestic life
family systems
installation
mess
mixed media
painting
parenthood
parenting
photography
realism
toys