https://artistparentindex.com/files/original/390dc5a37a66a1013927de2dcccded31.jpg 3a45455dabe5f608c9a79e0ec1d61010 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artist Parent Index Person An individual. Website The Artist's website <a href="http://www.gracecross.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.gracecross.net</a> Location The location of the interview Cape Town South Africa Artist Statement Grace Cross (b. Harare, Zimbabwe 1988) is a material painter who draws symbols about motherhood, home, belief structures, and land; making shipting recipe's rooted in feminism, history, performative archaeology and African cosmology, to reflect her experiences of cultural transmission. Her painting practice, since the birth of her daughter, focuses on female storytelling, spirituality, and mining symbols of motherhood in her lush and colourfilled canvases. Her paintings seek to represent a cosmological world, where paint weaves images together to work as spells or incantations. The painded symbols thread ideas together, daming and mending, compositionally sewing the symbolic into the real, tethering the objects to one another. She traces a history of laboring women, their bloodline, their red thread of fate, through her paintings - placenta red, metnrual red, nipple-suked-raw red. This is the tie that binds - an umbilical cord - the maternal line. The thread is fine buth strong; it will not come undone; even as it unspools, running from the distant past to the present, from one canvas to another. Cross lives and works as a mother and painter in Cape Town Topic motherhood parenting breastfeeding gender-based violence play caretaking symbolism fertility nutrition latch food storytelling matriessence babies pregnancy archaeology feminism psychic trauma womb birth awakening child's play language aquisition poetry burdens reproduction patterns textiles women's work domesticity labor performative painting spirituality bloodline Exhibitions Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked. Mother is a Drum, 2019, Smith Studio, Cape Town Atlas is a Woman, 2020, The Vault, Zeitz Silo Hotel, Cape Town Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grace Cross