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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
Title
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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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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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<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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<a href="http://www.aimeegilmore.com/portfolio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.aimeegilmore.com/portfolio/</a>
Medium
breast milk
wood
found/discarded objects
baby clothes
fabric
neon
cement
clay
plaster
sculpture
mixed media
Location
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Artist Statement
Aimee Gilmore's latest body of work is a result of her recent discoveries in motherhood. The works are a collection of imagery and objects that reflect the process of archiving a routine (like breastfeeding) through its most essential material and highlights the communication between mother and child through abstraction. It is through this collection that Gilmore begins to viscerally relate the abstract nature of motherhood to the unpredictable nature of breast milk, a material that exposes and emphasizes the necessity of letting go. Gilmore seeks a more thorough and vivid understanding of her own labor as mother by making works from the generative processes of her own body.
Topic
breastfeeding
breast milk
binary tensions
motherhood
bodies as markers of time
female body
body
lactation
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/296" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Art of Breastfeeding: Modern Narrative of Motherhood</a>
Make the Pump Not Suck, MIT Media Lab, April 27 - 29, 2018, MIT University
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/388">Mother Load</a>
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Aimee Gilmore
baby clothes
binary tensions
bodies as markers of time
breast milk
cement
clay
fabric
female body
found object
found/discarded objects
motherhood
mylar
neon
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
plaster
sculpture
wood
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<a href="http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/drinking-from-my-mothers-saucer" target="_blank"><span>http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/drinking-from-my-mothers-saucer</span></a>
<a href="http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/new-gallery-38/" target="_blank"><span>http://www.farheenhaq.com/#/new-gallery-38/</span></a>
Medium
video
installation
fabric
textile
Location
The location of the interview
Victoria
British Columbia
Canada
Artist Statement
<p>My media based art practice explores the realm of the moving image as a place of re-examination and possibility. It is a way for me to pull apart and reconstruct the threads of my life. Working in video, installation, performance and photography, I investigate my body and my South Asian Muslim Canadian female identity as a social construction.</p>
<p>The impetus for my art-making has always been curiosity, questioning and investigating. I want to uncover the place of agency within the structures that are imposed upon me. Fabric is a recurring metaphor to represent the many layers of codes wrapped around women’s bodies. It is a structure for me to hang meaning on – fabric can flow, constrain, codify and signify. It represents culture.</p>
<p>Through observing the formal and aesthetic properties of cultural gestures such as prayer, wearing a hijab, dressing/undressing, I deconstruct and reimagine how social codes and rituals can occupy the body. I experiment by pushing gestures beyond where they normally rest.</p>
<p>My works begin from the personal place of my Islamic South Asian Canadian heritage and end as images that can be read by a wider audience. The 6 meter long sari is abstracted into a long swath of red silk. A hooded sweatshirt stands in for a hijab. I deliberately use the conventions of mass media such as cinematic projections and seductive imagery to invite viewers to enter my work and settle in. I slow down and repeat images to facilitate reflection and reconsideration. I magnify texture and body parts so as to connect the viewer to a physical sensation.</p>
<p>In the process of image-making I see myself and unveil meaning in my life. I invite viewers to inhabit this imaginative space and reconsider their own experience.</p>
Topic
mothers of color
South Asian
Muslim
gesture
motherhood
maternal care
domesticity
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Farheen Haq
British Columbia
Canada
fabric/textile
gesture
installation
maternal care
motherhood
mothers of color
mothers of colour
muslim
South Asian
Victoria
video