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<p><a href="http://www.celiarocha.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.celiarocha.com</a></p>
Medium
drawing
photography
installation
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
Santa Ana
California
Artist Statement
<p>I am a Portuguese interdisciplinary artist living and working in Southern California. My lived experience and my interest in activism are the driving forces in my creative process. I use my artwork as a tool for activism, drawing on social issues that have affected me on a personal level, such as my experience of motherhood, the politics of childbirth or sexual violence. My artwork explores universal issues of gender and collective identity, culture, memory and loss, while it is imbued with the feeling of saudade, a typically Portuguese trait roughly translated as a nostalgic longing or yearning of someone or something of the past.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I have used a wide range of media - including painting, installation, social practice, video and sound - but drawing and photography remain at the core of my practice. Influenced by Vija Celmins's drawings, Andrea Bowers use of text and activism and Suzanne Lacy’s commitment to social justice, my work examines inequality and is borne out of a desire to call attention to the often invisible and overlooked issues that affect primarily women.<br /><br />@celiarochastudio</p>
Topic
parenting
caretaking
pregnancy
labor
childbirth
motherhood
maternal
c-section
cesarean section
natural birth
home birth
feminism
breastfeeding
baby clothes
babies
children
maternal mortality
Exhibitions
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2021 <a href="https://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/606" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maternochronics</a> | Virtual exhibition | maternochronics.com
2018 Maternal Matters | Bolsky Gallery | Otis College of Art and Design | Los Angeles
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Célia Rocha
babies
baby clothes
breastfeeding
c-section
California
caretaking
cesarean section
childbirth
children
drawing
feminism
home birth
labor
maternal
maternal mortality
motherhood
natural birth
parenting
photography
pregnancy
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<a href="http://www.jamiegdiamond.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jamiegdiamond.com</a>
Medium
photography
performance
Artist Statement
Jamie Diamond (b. 1983) is a performance artist, photographer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work mostly focuses on the human figure, deconstructing images throughout an array of concepts such as motherhood, authenticity and memory. She uses personal narratives as a departure point to compose photographs that challenge the boundaries between reality and fiction.
365 Days: 1938/2017
In 2015, while visiting Berlin, I stumbled upon a discarded vernacular German family photo album. As I turned each page, I saw the life of a child unfold, 27 days old, 47 days old, 80 days old, ending at 365 days. I then looked at the date and it occurred to me that this was at the dawn of the Second World War. This body of work is a collaboration between me and my son and two strangers, a mother and a child and explores the interplay between shared global history and maternal identity. I have carefully re-enacted each picture with my son since his birth, set within the same time frame outlined in the album, from 27 days old to a year. My recreations are over-layed with the original source material from 1938, collapsing space, time and memory into one photograph. The pixels merge with the grain, in the way I merge with this stranger, our developmental milestones and fears become one. By collapsing the historical photograph with my staged re-enactment I create a new narrative in which our shared identity at a time of uncertainty become united.
Mother Love:
In this project I collaborated with an outsider art making community called the Reborners, a group of self-taught female artists who hand-make, collect and interact with hyper-realistic dolls. Working with the community allowed me to explore the grey area between reality and artifice where relationships are constructed with inanimate objects, between human and doll, artist and artwork, uncanny and real.
After spending a year investigating and recording their practice, I chose to become a Reborner to gain a better understanding of the community. Nine Months of Reborning documents my introduction to the community and the making of my first nine dolls, as well as the working nursery I established in my studio and on eBay, called the Bitten Apple Nursery. Before putting the finished dolls up for adoption on eBay, I took a portrait of each one. The final photograph is the remnant of this exchange. For the subsequent Amy Project, I invited celebrated Artists from the community to individually interpret and idealize the same doll. I then photograph each doll mimicking vernacular school portraits. Each of the dolls are unique to their maker’s hand, but share an uncanny similarity through their common origin. For the final act in the Reborn collaboration, I have identified and appropriated different canonical images of the Christ Child, and invited Reborn artists to create individual portrait babies. Depictions vary drastically from artist to artist, all ultimately presenting their personal, ideal representation of a singular figure. The photographs engage with the tradition of portraiture, evoking classical sculptural busts that are at once familiar and strange.
I Promise to Be a Good Mother:
In this series, I assume the role of subject and photographer and put on the mask of motherhood, dressing up in my mother’s clothes and interacting with Annabelle, a reborn doll. The project was inspired by and named after a diary I kept as a girl that documented the relationship with my own mother, written as a kind of rule sheet for later life. I started staging specific memories from my childhood, acting out recalled events and behaviors. Eventually the performance evolved into an exploration of the complexities surrounding the paradox of the mother/child relationship, investigating both its vernacular and art historical depictions, while mimicking and ignoring the traditional visual signifiers of motherhood. I’m interested in the fantasy of motherhood, the social structure of the relationship between mother and child, and the performance of inherited social and gender roles. Working in a variety of locations, both interiors and landscapes, I play out these scenarios with Annabelle for the camera, isolating specific idyllic and contradictory moments.
Location
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Brooklyn
New York
Topic
motherhood
family
photographic veracity
performance
family history
memory
identity
role play
reborn
doll
surrogate
pregnancy
fiction
album
archive
reenactment
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
Surrogate: A Love Ideal, Milan Osservatorio, Fondazione Prada, Italy
Curated by Melissa Harris, 2019
Nine Months of Reborning, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2019
I Promise to be a Good Mother, AJL Art, Berlin, Germany, 2012
365 Days: 1938/2017, Kewenig, Berlin, Germany, 2021
A New Society, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Family Affairs, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2021
Walk in My Shoes, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, United States, 2015
Please Touch: Body Boundaries, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, United States
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Jamie Diamond
Title
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Jamie Diamond
album
archive
doll
family
family history
fiction
identity
memory
motherhood
performance
photographic veracity
pregnancy
reborn
reenactment
role play
surrogate
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Website
The Artist's website
<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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<a href="http://monyarowegallery.com/artist.php?aID=259" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://monyarowegallery.com/artist.php?aID=259</a>
Medium
acrylic on panel
Location
The location of the interview
Brooklyn
New York
USA
Artist Statement
<div class="field two columns alpha">I make paintings centering around my daily life. I paint what I know or think I know about the everyday experience of being alive. The paintings tend to explore the intimacy of domestic space The quieter familiar and private moments at home or abroad. I paint self portraits and portraits of my husband and child. They reflect part of the ritual or routine of life. This is the world of my home, wherever that maybe. I work from photos but also from the memory of those moments. It is what is there and sometimes from what I want to be there. Like any work from life there are a lot of truths and untruths.</div>
Topic
birth
pregnancy
breastfeeding
domestic life
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Polina Barskaya
acrylic
birth
breastfeeding
domestic life
pregnancy
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<a href="http://www.gracecross.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.gracecross.net</a>
Location
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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 - <em>placenta red, metnrual red, nipple-suked-raw red. </em>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 acquisition
poetry
burdens
reproduction
patterns
textiles
women's work
domesticity
labour
performative
painting
spirituality
bloodline
Exhibitions
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<em>Mother is a Drum, </em>2019, Smith Studio, Cape Town
<em>Atlas is a Woman, </em>2020, The Vault, Zeitz Silo Hotel, Cape Town
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Grace Cross
archaeology
awakening
babies
birth
bloodline
breastfeeding
burdens
caretaking
child's play
domesticity
feminism
fertility
food
gender-based violence
labour
language acquisition
latch
matriessence
motherhood
nutrition
painting
parenting
patterns
performative
play
poetry
pregnancy
psychic trauma
reproduction
spirituality
storytelling
symbolism
textiles
womb
women's work
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Artist Parent Organization Database
Service
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Location
The location of the interview
New York, NY
USA
Topic
birth justice
birth
racial justice
public health
birth stories
birth story
reproductive justice
midwifery
doula
doulas
history of American gynecology
history of medicine
community organizing
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Staten Island
Bronx
Queens
NYC
New York City
New York
home birth
hospital birth
advocacy
female genital mutilation and cutting
FGMC
child welfare
drug use
substance use
pregnancy
parenting
stigma
abortion
young parents
teen parents
teen parent
teen parenting
policy
advocacy
gender
non binary
gender queer
trans
harm reduction
birth control
sterilization
fake clinics
crisis pregnancy centers
About
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">WHAT: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Birth Justice Podcast NYC takes a close, comprehensive and creative look at how folks in New York City experience and navigate reproductive oppression and create resilience strategies for their health and their families. Through storytelling and conversations, BJP NYC provides a space for dialogue and debate addressing one of New York City’s most pressing public health and racial justice issues: birth. Hosted by Taja Lindley, podcast episodes feature one-on-one long form interviews and conversations with advocates, organizers, historians, scholars, healers, birth workers, pregnant and parenting people, and folks of reproductive age.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first episode dropped Wednesday July 8th and featureds an interview between the host, Taja Lindley, and her mother, Adrianne Robinson, where they discussed Robinson’s experience giving birth to Lindley in 1985. This was a special occasion because the release date is also Lindley’s birthday.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">WHY:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the United States, Black women are three to four times more likely to die due to pregnancy related causes than white women. But in New York City, Black women are eight times more likely to die than white women. This is twice the national average. And during this pandemic moment, matters of public health are brought into focus, including long standing health inequities like maternal health. For example,when COVID first hit, NYC hospitals barred visitors during childbirth, leaving many people to labor alone. In response, Governor Cuomo issued an executive order allowing laboring people to have one support person during their childbirth. A few weeks after it was issued, however, Amber Rose Isaac - a 26-year-old pregnant Black woman - died after giving birth in a Bronx hospital. </span></p>
Organization Website
<p><a href="https://www.birthjustice.nyc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>https://www.birthjustice.nyc/</b></a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.abladeofgrass.org/articles/black-maternal-mortality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>https://www.abladeofgrass.org/articles/black-maternal-mortality/</b></a></p>
<a href="http://patreon.com/birthjusticenyc" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">patreon.com/birthjusticenyc</span></a>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/birthjusticenyc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@birthjusticeNYC</span></a>
Organzation Director
Taja Lindley
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Birth Justice Podcast NYC
abortion
advocacy
birth
birth control
Birth justice
birth stories
birth story
Bronx
Brooklyn
child welfare
community organizing
crisi pregnancy centers
doula
doulas
drug use
fake clinics
female genital mutilation and cutting
FGMC
gender
gender queer
harm reduction
history of american gynecology
history of medicine
home birth
hospital birth
Manhattan
midwifery
New York
New York City
non binary
NYC
parenting
policy
pregnancy
public health
Queens
queer
racial justice
reproductive justice
Staten Island
sterilization
stigma
substance use
teen parent
teen parenting
teen parents
trans
young parents
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.mequittaahuja.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>http://www.mequittaahuja.com</b></a>
Medium
painting
drawing
Location
The location of the interview
Weston
Connecticut
Topic
pregnancy
IVF
miscarriage
sleep
death/birth
grandmother
maternal lineage
love
fertility
family
the body
mother and child
self-portraiture
home
domesticity
grief
sonograms
art history
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, Curated by Adrienne L. Childs
The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
February 29 - May, 24, 2020
Community
Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI
January 26 - April 19, 2020
Intricatcies: Fragment and Meaning
August 8 - September 14, 2019
Aicon Gallery
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Mequitta Ahuja
art history.
death/birth
domesticity
drawing
family
fertility
grandmother
grief
home
IVF
love
maternal lineage
miscarriage
mother and child
painting
pregnancy
self-portraiture
sleep
sonograms
the body
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.reneeromero.com%20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.reneeromero.com</a>
Topic
Childcare
parenting
play
motherhood
pregnancy
fatherhood
Medium
film photography
digital media
cyanotype
Artist Statement
Using film based photography, and alternative photographic processes I explore my identity, familial relationships and caretaking of my 20 month old daughter. My most recent completed body of work, A Physical Memory is a collection of 365 polaroid images taken in 2018 capturing an intimate look into my daily life from family, snapshots, pregnancy, and new motherhood. In the spring of 2020 I began a self guided artist residency, using my daughter as an inspiration rather than obstacle in my art practice. Creating cyanotype prints of the toys she leaves on the floor.
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Renee Romero
childcare
cyanotype
digital media
fatherhood
Film Photography
motherhood
parenting
play
pregnancy
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.jenniferlong.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.jenniferlong.ca</a>
Topic
memory
pregnancy
domesticity
girlhood
childhood
motherhood
mothering body
image
feminism
vulnerability
transformation
parenting
touch
intergenerational family
play
daily life
domestic labour
invisible labour
caretaking
mundane
Artist Residency in Motherhood
gesture
maternal body
mother/daughter relationship
Medium
photography
lens-based
Artist Statement
My practice is propelled by an interest in the varied experiences of girls and women, and the limited ways in which they are represented within image making. Through a Feminist lens, I work with constructed narratives that are inspired by the quiet moments in girls and women’s lives where seemingly nothing (and everything) occurs. I am especially interested in the complex emotions that underlie these mundane points in time. Themes of vulnerability, transformation, and discovery are explored in my image making through the use of touch, gesture, and the gaze as I observe conscious and unconscious modes of communication. Over the past decade, my art practice has focused on the early stages of motherhood and pregnancy as I navigated this new terrain in my personal life. My current series, ‘Caesura’, developed out of my observations of the struggle my daughters grapple with as they find a balance between their dependence on me and their growing independence. This series re-constructs and intertwines various remembrances, making visual the experience of seeing myself reflected in my daughters’ gestures and actions. At the forefront of this project is the need to make space for my ever-changing outlook of being a mother and an artist.
Location
The location of the interview
Toronto
Canada
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Jennifer Long
Title
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Jennifer Long
artist residency in motherhood
caretaking
childhood
daily life
domestic labour
domesticity
feminism
gesture
girlhood
image
intergenerational family
invisible labour
lens-based
maternal body
memory
mother/daughter relationship
motherhood
mothering body
mundane
parenting
photography
play
pregnancy
touch
transformation
vulnerability
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.diabassett.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.diabassett.com</a>
Medium
fiber
found objects
performance
painting
Location
The location of the interview
San Diego
California
USA
Topic
parenting
caretaking
breastfeeding
dyad relationship
microbiomes
touch
nurturing
napping
sleep
babyhood
toddlerhood
pregnancy
postpartum
anxiety
hapiness
physiology
nature
biology
Artist Statement
<span> I use distorted and erratic renditions of drawing and fiber techniques such as crocheting, weaving, and wrapping to build sculptural installations varying in size. My process begins when I encounter fabrics that are sourced from family and friends. The tactile experience of touching the fabrics can lead to an intimate, thoughtful meditation when I ponder the history of a garment. Who wore or used this? Where were they going or what were they doing when they used it? I may cut the fabric into long continuous thread, draw onto it, or sew it into a wearable sculpture. Dense forms and linear elements take shape as I let the qualities of the materials guide me. The improvisational aspect of my practice allows unpredictability to prosper.</span><br /><br /><span>Inspired by my own experience of entering motherhood, I want to show the power of the mother’s body and how she influences the infant physically as well as emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. Sometimes my work takes shape as figurative drawings of the nursing relationship I have with my daughter. I incorporate repetitive text into the drawings that speak to the ever-changing mental space of becoming a mother—the anxiety and worry, the joy and gratitude. Other times my work becomes sculptural, utilizing the curvealinear forms found in nature and women’s bodies. Looking at nature’s processes of decay, entropy, rupture, and unraveling, I find an ever-increasing affinity to my body. Becoming a mother has begun to transform the art I make as I see the kinship to nature more clearly. I want viewers to reconnect with their own vulnerability as well as their strength, as motherhood has required I do so in a more profound way. Within this state of vulnerability and power, I believe we can access the sensitivity that will facilitate our collective empathy.</span>
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Dia Bassett
anxiety
babyhood
biology
breastfeeding
caretaking
dyad relationship
fiber
found objects
happiness
microbiomes
napping
nature
nurturing
painting
parenting
performance
physiology
postpartum
pregnancy
sleep
toddlerhood
touch
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Artist Parent Organization Database
Service
An organization supporting artist parents.
Location
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Salem, Oregon
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Topic
reproduction
family
sex
gender
inclusive
zines
crowdsourcing
advocacy
paid family leave
care
caregiving
community
pregnancy
abortion
miscarriage
fetal loss
infertility
birth
gestation
identity
fashion
non-binary
LGBTQIA+
activism
performative action
library
collaboration
equity
policy
education
art
feminism
motherhood
fatherhood
parenthood
workshop
consent
About
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We (Cayla Skillin-Brauchle and Danielle C. Wyckoff) have come together to birth </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reproductive Media</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a project that focuses on all things family, gender, sex, and reproduction. Iterations of Reproductive Media have included a Mobile Zine Library and performative actions and workshops in which we facilitate discussions on these themes. The Reproductive Media Zine Library’s collection includes dozens of contributors who have produced zines related to these topics, ranging from personal experiences to statistics and facts. Our curatorial vision for this library is inclusive: we encourage individuals to share diverse information, experiences, and interpretations. This collection is an ongoing and ever-growing library.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Part of Reproductive Media’s larger mission is to provide educational and advocacy materials and support. Current resources we have produced as free booklets include ways to advocate for family-friendly* workplaces, suggestions for creating more inclusive educational settings, and other tools to advocate for legislative change such as ones that would support families for medical leave. (*We recognize an inclusive definition of family and remember that people receive love and support from partners, elders, children, siblings, lovers, pets, friends, and more.) </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reproductive Media stems from our shared investment in discussion and because our individual artistic practices utilize conversation and crowdsourcing as a tactic to research and create projects. Wyckoff’s project, “Please Tell Me a Story About Love,” has traveled around the world asking folks to do just that. The project’s open-ended structure situates the artist as listener, hearing and recording stories about all forms of love. Skillin-Brauchle’s “Data Collection” performances seek to create local data sets by interviewing community members in public places. While disparate in their approaches, these projects act as non-judgemental agents, recorders of contemporary experience. Our projects focus on the ‘local,’ whether that be a site or a community, and both projects collect responses that fuel our individual artwork in other material forms.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We believe that critical discussions require space. Reproductive Media creates such a space, one that is a public yet private forum, to talk about all things family, sex, gender, and reproduction: the choice to parent or not; the experiences of non-binary lives; governmental policy that is restrictive and policy that is protective; the challenges and rewards of parenting; experiences of becoming a parent through adoption, foster care, birth, or other paths; LBGQTIA+ rights; infertility and the emotional, physical and financial implications; miscarriage and fetal loss; birth control; abortion; models of prenatal care and giving birth (medical model and midwifery model); reproductive rights; reproductive privilege based on identity and socio-economics; sex; babies; gender; consent.</span></p>
Organization Website
reproductive.media@gmail.com
Organzation Director
Cayla Skillin-Brauchle
Danielle C. Wyckoff
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Reproductive Media
abortion
activism
advocacy
art
birth
Care
caregiving
collaboration
community
consent
crowdsourcing
education
equity
family
fashion
fatherhood
feminism
fetal loss
gender
gestation
identity
inclusive
infertitlity
LGBTQIA+
library
miscarriage
motherhood
non-binary
paid family leave
parenthood
performative action
policy
pregnancy
reproduction
sex
workshop
zines
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Artist Parent Organization Database
Service
An organization supporting artist parents.
Location
The location of the interview
Baltimore
Maryland
Topic
maternal form
maternal body
motherhood
postpartum
maternal relationship
mother-child relationship
identity
race
pregnancy
form
weight
postpartum body
abstract
figurative
magazine
publication
visual art
photography
creative writing
breastfeeding
milk
maternal experience
fruit
About
Containing an intentionally curated body of work, conceptually driven, and visually
focused, MILKED is a new publication that focuses on the undertones of the maternal figure.
Styled like a newspaper, and published as a book, this full color, 8.5” x 14” publication features
76 pages of visual art, photography and written word by international, female artists. MILKED is
an independent project, initiated and curated by Lee Nowell-Wilson and designed by Darin
Michelle. Both artists. Both mothers.
Organization Website
<a href="http://www.leenowellwilson.com/milked-magazine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leenowellwilson.com/milked-magazine</a>
<a href="http://www.milkedmagazine.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">milkedmagazine.com</a>
Organzation Director
Lee Nowell-Wilson (founder, editor, and curator)
Darin Michelle
(creative director and designer)
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MILKED
abstract
breastfeeding
creative writing
figurative
form
fruit
identity
magazine
maternal body
maternal experience
Maternal form
maternal relationship
milk
mother- child relationship
motherhood
photography
postpartum
postpartum body
pregnancy
publication
Race
visual art
weight
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Website
The Artist's website
<p class="p1"><a href="https://www.marketas.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.marketas.net</a></p>
Medium
drawing
painting
bookmaking
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
My practice is closely linked to my personal life. There are no boundaries between me and the viewer. Through drawing, painting and bookmaking I am sharing my internal experiences in work that has the intimacy of a personal diary."
Currently I am exploring the subject of motherhood, mother-artist and female energy. The body's transformation, experienced as transition - from girl to woman, daughter to mother - is a central them in the work.
Topic
motherhood
diary
mother's diary
breastfeeding
labor
mother-artist
pregnancy
body
body's transformation
female energy
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
2018
(8) – Festival de dessin (drawing festival)
La Nouvelle Manufacture, Ardeche, France
(https://www.lanouvellemanufacture.org)
Publications
A catalog or monograph published by the artist
M.A.M.A. Issue n.31: Marketa Senkyrik and Robin Silbergleid - mother's diary (for Kaya) - on-line monthly on-line publication featuring art, academic and creative writing with the aim to promote women internationally and generate cultural exchanges and opportunities run by procreate Project
https://www.procreateproject.com/mama-issue-n-31-marketa-senkyrik-robin-silbergleid/
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Marketa Senkyrik
body
body’s transformation
bookmaking
breastfeeding
diary
drawing
female energy
labour
London
mother-artist
mother’s diary
motherhood
painting
pregnancy
United Kindgom
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.juliabarbee.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">juliabarbee.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
pregnancy
breastfeeding
motherhood as art practice
play
postpartum
family collaboration
breastfeeding advocacy
food
early motherhood
social media moms group
kids and nature
naptime haiku
Medium
photography
performance
social media
Location
The location of the interview
Oregon
USA
Artist Statement
<span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">The constraints of her</span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2"> autobio</span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">graphical journey</span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2"> inform </span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">artist Julia Barbee's subjects and material choices. She has worked in </span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">wearable sculpture, performance, film, food, social media, photography and writing. Currently, she is exploring play with her children, providing space for them to create, and she is making vanitas photos of the aftermath of meals they make and share with friends, family, and strangers.<span> </span></span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">She </span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">co-founded and curated a five-year running art event called Spaceness, which was awarded grant funding from the the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visu</span><span class="ydpfd2cabdayiv1751045275s2">al Arts. She<span> </span></span><span>has an MFA in fiber, and has been working in Portland, Oregon for</span><span> almost two decades where she lives with her husband and two children.</span>
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Julia barbee
Title
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Julia Barbee
breastfeeding
motherhood
performance
photography
pregnancy
social media
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Website
The Artist's website
<p class="p1"><a href="jesstaylorartist.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jesstaylorartist.com</a></p>
Medium
sculpture
new media
Location
The location of the interview
Adelaide
Australia
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I am an early career artist whose practice explores my fascination with fictional horror through primarily digital methods of making. Within the broader realm of horror, I have a particular interest in monsters, voyeurism, and depictions of female brutality, sadism, and masochism. Using my own image and body exclusively, my work presents versions of womanhood that transgress the bounds of what we are taught is acceptable, uncanny spectres of female experience that society is keen to repress. Here, monstrosity is configured as a source of damnation and agency, reflecting womanhood as complex and contradictory.</p>
<p class="p2"></p>
<p class="p3">My own experience as a mother has been one of profound contradiction, of exhilarating highs and profound lows, of love and fury, comfort and trauma. I struggle to reconcile the fact that the greatest time in my life is also the one when it was the darkest, and that my body birthed a miracle but feels like a ruin. I am not as I was, but not quite sure what I am now; I’ve yet to turn into anything resembling the gargantuan mother archetype we’re fed, and too much of the old Jess remains for me to consider myself someone new. I have been transformed, reborn, reconfigured using the old parts. Some days those new parts feel like they were made of steel, making me infinitely stronger than I was, and other days that steel bites into my flesh, broken limbs fused back together suddenly failing to bear my weight.</p>
<p class="p4"></p>
<p class="p3">Motherhood is a monstrous condition; it is incredible and disturbing, beautiful and completely fucked up. Like monstrosity, it is transformative, and for the woman-monster, this transformation is a source of both agency and damnation, strength and weakness. My work since my son is in part an attempt to reconcile the contradiction inherent in my own experience of motherhood, and to bridge the divide between what I am and what we are told a mother should be.</p>
<p class="p3">Experiencing pregnancy for the second time has greatly influenced my work, causing me to reflect much more closely on the process of bearing a child. There is the strange bodily awareness and attempts to reconcile this cavernous space that exists within me, and evocations of my own paranoias as I imagine this space as a place of both hope and doom. I like to think there is also some absurdity when one looks at a ridiculous, bulbous woman, or my lady-giants, but there is also the tenderness of the nets that keep the babies close to her body, or the way a stomach is opened up to sate the curiosity of the smaller figures who peer inside. There is the sorrow of the figure on the bridge as she surveys the fallen before her (a mediation on periods in history where the practice of fallen-mothers ending their lives and the lives of their offspring was not only a grim expectation, but an act of redemption), and my attempt to see a ruin as a place of beauty and life.</p>
Topic
abjection
ambivalence
anger
anxiety
artist mother
attachment
autonomy
bad mother
birth
birth trauma
body transformation
boundaries
childbirth
contemporary
contemporary art practice
contradictions
domestic
family ties
female experience
female sexuality
feminine
femininity
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
fertility
grotesque
growth
guilt
identity
loneliness
longing
loss
loss of identity
maternal ambivalence
maternal anxiety
maternal body
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
mother
mother artist
motherhood
postpartum body
pregnancy
pregnant body
psychoanalysis
representation
science fiction
self portrait
technology
trauma
voyeurism
womb
women
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Jess Taylor
abjection
ambivalence
anger
anxiety
artist mother
attachment
Australia
autonomy
bad mother
birth
birth trauma
body transformation
boundaries
childbirth
contemporary art
contemporary art practice
contradictions
domestic
family ties
female experience
female sexuality
feminine
femininity
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
feminist theory
fertility
grotesque
growth
guilt
identity
loneliness
longing
loss
loss of identity
maternal
maternal ambivalence
maternal anxiety
maternal bodies
maternal body
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
mother
mother artist
motherhood
new media
postpartum body
pregnancy
pregnant body
psychoanalysis
representation
science fiction
sculpture
self portrait
technology
trauma
voyeurism
womb
women
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Website
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<a href="https://www.metrasaberova.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.metrasaberova.com/</span></a>
Medium
video art
animation
performance
painting
installation
Location
The location of the interview
London
United Kingdom
Riga
Latvia
Artist Statement
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taking the bodily, medical and performative contents that make up my artistic practice, I use my own orchestrated experiences of medical tourism procedures as a public platform to encourage discussion about the cultural, political and social meanings assigned to the female body and its capabilities. The bodily interventions include tubal ligation in Thailand, hymenoplasty in Poland, IVF consultations in Bulgaria and full breast tattoos in Latvia. I believe that upholding the high status of motherhood and treating childfree people as deviations from the standard of motherhood is clearly limiting to childfree women in terms of their acceptance as valuable contributors to the society and as people free of biological determinism. The aim of my artistic research is to contribute to the growing field of investigation in the childfree lifestyle and to question the standard of the normativity of motherhood for women in the Western society and to link the social </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">stigmatization of childfree people with investigations in sociology, performativity, bioethics, body art, feminism and queer theory</span><b>.</b></p>
<p></p>
Topic
childfree
motherhood
pregnancy
IVF
sterilization
gender
queer
body
feminism
bioethics
performance
Exhibitions
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<p><a href="http://kunstimaja.ee/2017/11/metra-saberova-pimpin-yo-mama-crib-avamine-17-11-kl-18-00"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Solo show Pimpin' Yo Mama Crib, curator Šelda Puķīte, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu, Estonia</span></a></p>
<a href="https://www.biennalejce.com/en/home/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jeune Creation Europeenne touring group exhibition in France, Italy, Denmark, Romania, Spain, Portugal and Latvia in 2018/2019</span></a>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Next Thing, Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, Moving Image Gallery, Bury, UK</span></p>
MOTHER, CINEMQ, Elevator, Shanghai, China
Queer Art(ists) Now, And What? Queer Arts Festival, The Mill Co. Project, London, UK
International Videoart Week of Lanzarote, CIC El Almacen, Lanzarote, Canary island
Hiding in plain sight, The Flying Dutchman, London, UK
is this (not) a woman, tAD gallery, Texas, USA
Visions, Nunnery gallery, Bow arts, London, UK
RETHink Art Digital Festival, Crete, Greece
Amy Johnson Festival, The 75 Seconds Film Challenge, Hull, UK
Big Screen, Latitude festival, UK
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Mētra Saberova
animation
bioethics
body
childfree
feminism
gender
installation
IVF
Latvia
London
motherhood
painting
performance
pregnancy
queer
Riga
sterilization
United Kingdom
video art
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Resource Library
Book
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Editor
Amy Hughes Braden
Raina Martens
Contributor
The author of an article within an anthology
Mother Afrodite
Margaret Bakke
Carolyn Chernoff
Yauri Delancour
Melani N. Douglass
Maribeth Egan
Laura Elkins
Kristin Rose Gaudio Endsley
Fabiola
Amy Elayne Finkelstein
Mel Harper
LaToya Michelle Hobbs
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Irvin</a>
Mariko Iwata
Mariah Anne Johnson
Tsedaye Makonnen
China Martens
Molly McIntyre
Maria McLean
Maggie Michael
Rebecca Perez
Hannah Hessel Ratner
Katie Rauth
Gail Susan Rebhan
Julia Kim Smith
Donna Teare
Caitlin R. Woolsey
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megan Wynne</a>
Publisher
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/336" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Artist Mother Studio</a>
City of Publication
Washington DC
Date of Publication
2018
Topic
zine
Artist Mother Studio
mother artists
childcare
community
pregnancy
marginalized mothers
breastfeeding
support systems
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Maternal Journal
Artist Mother Studio
childcare
journal
maternal
mother artist
pregnancy
Washington DC
zine
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.amyreidel.com">www.amyreidel.com</a>
Topic
caregiving
birth trauma
babies
mothers
c-section
trauma
Medium
multi-media
watercolor
mixed media
paper
canvas
Artist Statement
My current body of work on paper and canvas uses volatile watercolor, studio remnants, lint, medical tape, hot glue and more to abstractly illustrate what so many women go through but are not encouraged to discuss; the double-standards placed on our sexuality, the immense mental and physical space that caregiving demands, as well as traumas related to sexual assault, pregnancy and childbirth. Through traditional (paint) and symbolic (staples) mixed media, I portray the sweetness of imaginary babies and mothers, along with the gore of tumors, bleeding and C-section scars.
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Amy Reidel
Title
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Amy Reidel
birth
birth trauma
bleeding
c-section
Care
care giving
mixed media
paper
pregnancy
sexuality
trauma
watercolor
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Author
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/328">Nanna Lysholt Hansen</a>
Year of Publication
2017
City of Publication
Berlin/Copenhagen
State of Publication
Danmark
ISBN 13
978-87-999834-2-1
Topic
birth
pregnancy
techonology
language
cyborg
Donna Haraway
Cyborg Manifesto
Publisher
<a href="http://www.labae.org/publications/dear-daughter">Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology / Nanna Lysholt Hansen</a>
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Dear Daughter
birth
cyborg
Cyborg Manifesto
daughter
Donna Haraway
language
pregnancy
technology
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Echoes of Silence
Description
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film still
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.sarabrighty.co.uk">www.sarabrighty.co.uk</a>
Topic
pregnancy
birth
miscarriage
loss
Medium
mixed media
installation
photography
drawing
scuplture
Artist Statement
<p style="font-weight: 400;">My ongoing practise researches and investigates parenthood, including; pregnancy, child birth, the relationships we have with our children, and considers that parenthood may not always be that of gaining a child but may be about losing them too.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">I create installations as a visual interpretation of sensitive and personal experiences. I work across a variety mediums and disciplines using photography and film, painting, drawing and sculpture and the components can also be viewed as individual pieces.</p>
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Sara Brighty
Title
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Sara Brighty
birth
drawing
installation
installation art
loss
miscarriage
photography
pregnancy
sculpture
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<a href="http://www.nannalysholt.dk">www.nannalysholt.dk</a>
<a href="http://www.nannalysholthansen.com">www.nannalysholthansen.com</a>
Topic
pregnancy
motherhood
motherartist
mothervoice
technolgy
cyborg
feminism
language
posthumanism
meditation
memory
theory
intergenerational
Medium
live performance
video
installation
sculpture
photography
poetry
sound
Artist Statement
MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Art. BFA Faculty of Art, Design & Music, Kingston University London. In her artistic practice Nanna Lysholt Hansen is investigating relationships between the body, language, voice, gender and technology. By using her own personal experiences of the female body, sexuality, pregnancy, birth and motherhood she draws attention to the body as a technological and biological intergenerational mediator of knowledge, voice and memory.
Location
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Copenhagen
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Nanna Lysholt Hansen
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Nanna Lysholt Hansen
biology
copenhagen
cyborg
feminism
installation
intergenerational
language
live performance
mediation
memory
motherartist
motherhood
mothervoice
photography
poetry
posthumanism
pregnancy
sculpture
sound
sound art
technology
theory
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<a href="https://lopezangela.com/home.html">www.lopezangela.com</a>
Medium
interdisciplinary
video
drawing
painting
sculpture
Artist Statement
ILThere might be magic. Like death, magic is hopeful and scary. A skull grows crystals and a prosthetic bruises. A small foot kicks and slides across the inside of a belly making a wave in the flesh. Sheep’s horns will often grow back into their skull. The body senses and interprets information beyond what the mind is conscious of. The body operates beyond our will and is affected internally by what happens externally and vice versa. As a result there is a lack of physical control over our own bodies. The most recent artworks are influenced by the idea of creating artifacts and documentation of the body and medical treatments in a time unknown. Like speculative fiction, but grounded in real history and the Anthropocene, the works re-imagine our physical and psychological relationship to the body. Using watercolor paintings, animations and sculptures the work depicts the body in metamorphic and sometimes magical states of growth and decay. They explore the familiar and the unknown of embodiment to reveal primal desires, instincts, and fears. The works appear frozen in a moment of metamorphosis, between states of sensuality, life, health and consciousness. Our bodies and psychology are presented as unknowable, yet inescapable, forces in our lives.
Location
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Chicago
Illinois
USA
Topic
Anthropocene
body
growth
decay
metamorphosis
pregnancy
desire
instinct
fear
development
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Angela Lopez
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Angela Lopez
Anthropocene
body
Chicago
development
drawing
Illinois
instinct
interdisciplinary
metamorphosis
painting
pregnancy
psychology
sculpture
the body
video art
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<a href="http://komsomolfilms.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://komsomolfilms.com/</a>
Topic
childbirth
pregnancy
labor
care labor
maternal anxiety
feminism
Medium
film
video
Artist Statement
IRENE LUSZTIG is a filmmaker, visual artist, archival researcher, and amateur seamstress. Her film and video work mines old images and technologies for new meanings in order to reframe, recuperate, and reanimate forgotten and neglected histories. Often beginning with rigorous research in archives, her work brings historical materials into conversation with the present day, inviting viewers to explore historical spaces as a way to contemplate larger questions of politics, ideology, and the production of personal, collective, and national memories. Much of her work is centered on public feminism, language, and histories of women and women’s bodies, including her debut feature Reconstruction (2001), the feature length archival film essay The Motherhood Archives (2013), the ongoing web-based Worry Box Project (2011), and her newest performative documentary feature Yours in Sisterhood (2018).
Location
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Santa Cruz
California
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Complicated Labors</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/64" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Marternalisms - Chile</a>
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Irene Lusztig
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Irene Lusztig
California
care labor
childbirth
feminism
film
labor
maternal anxiety
pregnancy
Santa Cruz
video
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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="http://fazakasgallery.com/portfolio/she-i-la-group-exhibition/" target="_blank">http://fazakasgallery.com/portfolio/she-i-la-group-exhibition/</a>
Curator
LaTiesha Fazakas
Gallery
Fazakas Gallery
Curatorial Statement
An all-female group exhibition to coincide with International Women’s Day 2017, featuring work by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous multidisciplinary contemporary artists. This group of Vancouver-based artist mothers will be presenting a unique collective and heterogeneous artist talk on motherhood and art practice and the intersections between reproductive and artistic labour. The panel discussion, in the form of an informal dialogue, will elaborate a utopian model for a feminist, women-centred, sustainable creation process that integrates life and all of its chaos into a viable and valued way of being and creating without being marginalized by and excluded from the male-dominated art system.
Location
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Fazakas Gallery, 688 E Hastings St, Vancouver, Canada
Artists
Gabriela Aceves-Sepulveda
Matilda Aslizadeh
Jeneen Frei Njootli
Robyn Laba
Natasha McHardy
Yvonne Muinde
Joyce Ozier
Heather Passmore
Maria Anna Parolin
Rosa Quintana-Lillo
Sarah Shamash
prOphecy sun
Damla Tamer
Charlene Vickers
Carollyne Yardley
Duration
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March 8, 2017
Topic
motherhood
Indigenous artists
pregnancy
reproduction
motherhood and art practice
artistic labor
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SHEILA: Women, Art, and Production
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Heather Passmore
artistic labor
Indigenous motherhood
motherhood
motherhood and art practice
pregnancy
reproduction
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<a href="http://www.robynleroyevans.com" target="_blank">www.robynleroyevans.com</a>
Topic
mother-artist
body
motherhood
pregnancy
childbirth
ambivalence
Medium
photography
video
installation
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Robyn LeRoy-Evans
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Robyn LeRoy-Evans
ambivalence
body
childbirth
installation
mother as artist
motherhood
photography
pregnancy
video
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<a href="http://courtneyjohnson.net/afterlife.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://courtneyjohnson.net/afterlife.html</a>
Medium
pigment print from cliche-verre
cliche-verre
pigment print
Artist Statement
In 2014, I was pregnant with my first child and working on Afterlife, the second part, of Cycle of Cities, a nine part series chronicling the rise and fall of cities through a universal myth cycle. I was working in cliché-verre, an obscure historic photographic process first practiced shortly after the invention of photography in the 1800s. French for glass negative, cliché-verre is a photo-painting hybrid process. The work begins as a painting on glass in negative and is then enlarged and printed photographically.
I 're-invented again' cliché-verre in the late 1990s while living in an all-girls dormitory. With limited off campus access, my opportunities to take images with a camera were somewhat uninspiring, so I made my own negatives by painting on glass. I used available materials—nail polish, paint, Vaseline, white-out, wax pencil, &c. In hindsight, this is an exceptionally feminine approach to photography. Whereas a man might go 'hunting' for the perfect materials at an art supply store, or 'hunting' for a photograph with a camera, I worked with available materials, including beauty supplies. I have continued using nail polish as my primary medium for cliché-verre, along with ink and white-out, for the past two decades.
Since pregnancy prevented me from working with chemicals, including nail polish, I had to change materials for this series. After testing inks and dyes, I used natural food coloring made from turmeric, beets, and spinach to depict dead stars at the far reaches of space. Dead stars are very womblike, both coincidentally and intentionally.
Cycle of Cities is a uniquely feminine project, as much about motherhood as about the galaxy. Cycles—life, moon, menstrual—as well as mythology, storytelling, and interpreting cities and new technologies' impacts are all feminine, maternal approaches to photography and the world. Experiencing pregnancy and the birth of my daughter while depicting a lifecycle can only be done by a woman. By integrating content, form, and experience this work expresses the feminine without making the feminine the subject.
Topic
pregnancy
menstrual cycle
birth
daughter
lifecycle
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Courtney Johnson
birth
daughter
lifecycles
menstruation
pregnancy
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<a href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6401" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6401</a>
<a href="http://www.elizabeth-mackenzie.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.elizabeth-mackenzie.com&source=gmail&ust=1558724776144000&usg=AFQjCNFq3V1oVNx9mtQqbABDVatELWjR-Q" rel="noopener">http://www.elizabeth-<wbr />mackenzie.com</a>
<a href="https://vimeo.com/221027778" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Up and Down She Goes">https://vimeo.com/221027778</a>
<a href="https://vimeo.com/221026288" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Me First">https://vimeo.com/221026288</a>
Medium
drawing
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Vancouver
British Columbia
Canada
Artist Statement
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<p>I’ve always been interested in exploring the tension between the role of the (female) artist and the demands of the everyday. My identity as an artist mother has informed my work for many years.</p>
<p>Even before I had a child of my own I considered how it might be possible to combine these roles within my 1984 installation, <a title="Taking Care (1984)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6423"><em>Taking Care</em></a>.</p>
<p>Four years later, in 1988, I gave birth to my first child. When she was eight months old I installed <a title="Baby Food (1989)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=4739"><em>Baby Food</em></a> in <em>Mothers of Invention</em>, a group exhibition about mothers and daughters curated by Jo-Anna Isaak. This piece describes my anxiety about my ability to nourish my daughter, as I struggled with both breast-feeding and art making.</p>
<p>The installation <a title="With Child (1991)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6481"><em>With Child</em></a>, produced in 1991 for <em>The Embodied Viewer,</em> a group show curated by Vera Lemecha for the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, portrays some of the conflicts of over-identification and self‑immolation that were raised for me within the dyads of pregnancy and maternity. I was fearful that my child had become, even before birth, an autonomous creature I would never be able to encompass and keep safe. This combination of images on a long wall produced an impossible representation that had become increasingly normalized: we were able to see a pregnant body as well as what is inside the body. Although I was thrilled to become a mother, I was horrified by the loss of boundaries I experienced. Both my body and my psychic space were invaded.</p>
<p>In 1991 I also began graduate studies at the University of Saskatchewan. I wanted to review my 10-year practice as an artist as well as continue to investigate representations of pregnancy. The thesis I developed, <em>Spacemen and Invisible Women</em>, examined popular representations of pregnancy that obliterated the pregnant woman, and represented the fetus (or embryo) as a tiny self‑sufficient space traveler, floating in a black void. My 1993 graduating exhibition, <a title="Invisible/Stranger/Mine (1993)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6491"><em>Invisible/Stranger/Mine</em></a>, examined maternal erasure and the cult of fetal personhood within a number of related works.</p>
<p>The installation <a title="Radiant Monster (1996-98)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=1190"><em>Radiant Monster</em></a>, completed in 1996, was shown in a number of different contexts. Once again, this work represented the ambivalent feelings I experienced in response to real and imagined pregnancies and children. I wanted to express a continuum between the desire and the anxiety that the contemplation and experience of maternity evokes. Not surprisingly, reproductive technologies that offer new choices to infertile women, and increase the opportunity for interventions during pregnancy and birth, extend and exaggerate our relationship to our reproductive capacities.</p>
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<p>From 1997 to 1999 I co-wrote a series of bimonthly columns with Martha Townsend for the Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA) newsletter (here’s a <a href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/files/2014/11/FPP-Artist-Mothers-March-1998.pdf">sample column</a> from March 1998).</p>
<p><span>I produced a number of videos about maternity during this period, including </span><i>Up and Down She Goes</i><span> (1998) and </span><i>Me First </i><span>(1999).</span><br /><br />In 2000 Martha and I co-produced a conference for artist-mothers, <em><a title="First Person Plural Symposium (2000)" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=246">First Person Plural</a></em> for MAWA at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Winnipeg. I co-curated an program of videos for the conference, <a href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/files/2014/11/LfT.pdf">Looking for Trouble: Tapes by Unruly Mothers </a>with Laurel Swenson, that was also shown at Video Out (Vancouver) in 2000. I also produced a video document, <em><a href="https://vimeo.com/221017621#t=40s">Delivery: Artist Mothers on Tape</a>, </em>in which 30 conference participants speak candidly about their mothering and art-making practices.</p>
<p>Essays where I consider my identity as an artist mother have been included in <a href="http://demeterpress.org/books/mothering-canada-interdisciplinary-voices/">Mothering Canada: Interdisciplinary Voices</a> (2010) and <a href="http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409426134">Reconciling Art and Mothering</a> (2012).</p>
<p>A collection of resources (articles, books, websites) specifically about artist-mothers can be found <a title="Artist-Mother Resources" href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?page_id=6513">here</a>.</p>
<p>Here’s a <a href="http://blogs.eciad.ca/elizabethmackenzie/?p=6499">post</a> about a presentation I developed for a conference in 2015 (<em>Embody/In My Body</em>), as well as a video of the presentation itself (“Exquisite Tension”) available <a href="https://vimeo.com/125696100">here.</a></p>
<p>Although I haven’t made work specifically about maternity for some time, my current projects continue to be deeply affected by these investigations and what I discovered about inter-subjectivity within my role as an artist mother.</p>
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Topic
motherhood
artist/mother
identity
breastfeeding
food
pregnancy
ambivalence
desire
anxiety
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Title
A name given to the resource
Elizabeth MacKenzie
ambivalence
baby food
breastfeeding
British Columbia
Canada
feeding
food
motherhood
motherhood and art practice
pregnancy
Vancouver
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<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
The location of the interview
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
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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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Event Type
Gallery
Exhibition Website
<a href="https://womanmade.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://womanmade.org/</a>
Gallery
Woman Made Gallery
Curator
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/47" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Rachel Epp Buller</a>
Curatorial Statement
<span>“Mothers” includes moving works by 37 women addressing the culturally ubiquitous role of motherhood, historically under-represented in visual art. The artists utilize a wide range of media, from photography, video, 3D, and even frosted cakes. The artists’ individual and sometimes intensely personal approaches to the subject of motherhood vary as much as their media. The work speaks to personal experiences (as a mother or as related to a mother), social constructions of motherhood, the balance of home and work, the politicization of mothers, pregnancy, breastfeeding, childbirth, bodily transformation, miscarriage, loss, and fertility/infertility. Artists are using materials traditionally found in domestic settings including clothes pins, canning jars, and yarn. Others use iconic imagery such as the Madonna and child.</span>
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
Illinois
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
November 5 to December 23, 2010
Topic
motherhood
domesticity
politicization of mothers
pregnancy
breastfeeding
childbirth
bodily transformation
miscarriage
loss
fertility
infertility
Artists
Jjenna Hupp Andrews
Kiki Augustin
Melissa Ayotte
Linda L. Bacon
Adrian Baker
Shaun Bangert
Kristy Battani
Jolene Beckman
Cat Del Buono
Corinna Button
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/199" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Myrel Chernick</a>
Barbara Diener
Sheila A. Donovan
Joy Christiansen Erb
Niki Grangruth
Luba Grenader
Kate Hansen
Kelly Harrington
Katherine Michele Hatchell
Judith Hladik-Voss
Phyllis Hofman
Lea Basile Lazarus
Stephanie Lerma
Melanie Lowrance
Elaine Luther
Julie Mader-Meersman
Jennifer McNichols
Maggie Meiners
Freyda Miller
Helen Payne
Nancy Roberts
Jaleesa Rosario
Sarah Rust Sampedro
Amanda Simons
Colette Veasey-Cullors
Lisa Venditelli
Ellen Wetmore
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Mothers
bodily transformation
breastfeeding
childbirth
domesticity
fertility
infertility
loss
miscarriage
motherhood
politicization of mothers
pregnancy
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://jillbakergower.com/" target="_blank">http://jillbakergower.com/</a>
Medium
mixed media
silver
sculpture
Location
The location of the interview
New Jersey
Artist Statement
<p>The female experience is a reoccurring theme in my work. My jewelry and sculpture is informed by everyday interactions and observations of gender-based expectations or generalizations. Within advertisements, popular culture, and the media; similar colors, patterns, shapes, beautification techniques, and pastimes intended for women are apparent. My material choices, surfaces, and forms are developed in one way through my exposure and interest in this experience.</p>
<p>The shapes and forms of my pieces come from disparate inspirations including the female form, faceted gems, historic jewelry and metalwork, and tools or implements for beautification or medical procedures. The surfaces of my work are often ornate, etched with lace patterns, and at times are paired with actual crocheted elements. These choices allude to femininity initially by being flowery, lacelike, and curvilinear, by their association with popular use in women’s apparel, and since the act of crochet or lace making is currently and was historically known as a women’s skill. I choose to incorporate skin, red, and pink toned colors in my work primarily to reference human flesh, cosmetics, the body, and blood.</p>
<p>Materials such as skin toned rubber and mirrors reference bodily transformation, self-examination, and vanity. Other materials like pearls, jewels, lustrous fabrics, feathers, enamel, hair, silver, and gold are chosen for their aesthetic qualities, emotional resonance, preciousness, and value associations. With these materials, formal considerations, and influences I create work that is both playful and beautiful and at times even absurd or humorous.</p>
Topic
metalsmithing
female experience
femininity
gender-based expectations
pregnancy
womb
gestation
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Jill Baker Gower
aesthetic
female experience
femininity
gestation
jewelry
metalsmithing
mixed media
New Jersey
pregnancy
sculpture
silver
womb
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Artist Parent Index
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Website
The Artist's website
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.amyholmesgeorge.com/images/" target="_blank">http://www.amyholmesgeorge.com/images/</a></span>
Medium
photography
digital imaging
Location
The location of the interview
Dallas
Texas
Artist Statement
<p>Amy Holmes George is a fine art photographer based near Dallas, Texas, where she has held teaching appointments at Baylor University, the University of North Texas and Collin College. As a former tenured professor of photography and digital media from Stephen F. Austin State University, Amy founded the School’s first study abroad program (based in Italy) and was nominated for the University Faculty Achievement Award in Teaching. Amy holds an MFA in photography from Clemson University and a BFA cum laude in photography and graphic design from Miami University.</p>
<p><br />Amy is the Executive Director of the <a href="http://www.texasphoto.org/" target="_blank">Texas Photographic Society</a> and a member of the National Board of Directors of the <a href="http://www.spenational.org/" target="_blank">Society for Photographic Education</a>, serving formerly as Chair, Treasurer and Vendor Liaison on the South Central Regional Board. During 2010, Amy co-founded alt8, an alternative photographic processes group, which meets regularly in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.</p>
<p>Exhibited widely throughout the U.S. as well as in Italy, England, France and China, Amy's work has been featured in over one hundred exhibitions and is housed in several permanent collections, including The Getty, The Kinsey Institute and the Fratelli Alinari Museum. In 2008, Amy was awarded a Fulbright grant to fund a rephotographic project based on the Fratelli Alinari photo archives in Florence, Italy. Additionally, her work has been published recently in a variety of texts, including the third edition of<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Alternative-Photographic-Processes/dp/1285089316/ref=dp_ob_image_bk" target="_blank">"The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes"</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Printing-Amazing-Processes-Christina-Anderson/dp/0984681612" target="_blank">"Gum Printing and other Amazing Contact Printing Processes"</a>, and the fifth edition of<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Color-Photography-Fifth-Edition/dp/0240813359" target="_blank">"Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels"</a>. </p>
Topic
pregnancy
motherhood
domesticity
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Amy Holmes George
Dallas
domestic
motherhood
photography
pregnancy
Texas
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<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.michellehartney.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.michellehartney.com/</a></span>
<div><a href="https://www.michellehartney.com/mothers-right" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.michellehartney.com/mothers-right</a></div>
<div></div>
<a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/moms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.michellehartney.com/moms</a>
<a href="https://www.michellehartney.com/kimberly-said-no" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.michellehartney.com/kimberly-said-no</a>
<a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/birthwords" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.michellehartney.com/birthwords</a>
<a href="https://www.michellehartney.com/correcting-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.michellehartney.com/correcting-history</a>
<a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/anarcha-lucy-betsey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.michellehartney.com/anarcha-lucy-betsey</a>
Medium
mixed media
performance art
Location
The location of the interview
Chicago
Illinois
United States
Artist Statement
<p>Michelle Hartney is a Chicago based artist whose work addresses a broad range of topics, from women’s health issues, to the concept of heroes, love, and the cosmos. She works in a variety of materials, including fiber, wood, found objects, and most recently, performance. Her interest in using art to address social issues began during her graduate studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was an Albert Schweitzer Fellow.</p>
<p>In 2015 she became the <a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/improving-birth">Chicago rally coordinator </a>for<a href="http://improvingbirth.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I</a><a href="http://improvingbirth.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mproving Birth's</a> nationwide Labor Day rallies. Most recently, Hartney joined <a href="http://www.everymothercounts.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Every Mother Counts </a>as a<a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/every-mother-counts">running ambassador.</a> With twenty-six years of distance running to draw from, including several marathons, triathlons, and running cross country and track for Purdue University, she is forming a team of men and women to race with and raise awareness about maternal healthcare issues. <a href="http://www.michellehartney.com/every-mother-counts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> for more information about joining her team.</p>
Topic
maternity
feminism
mother/daughter relationship
pregnancy
newborn
healthcare
mothers
women
women's health
maternal healthcare
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Michelle Hartney
Chicago
feminist
healthcare
Illinois
maternal
maternal healthcare
mixed media
mother/daughter relationship
mothers
newborn
performance art
pregnancy
United States
women
women's health
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Artist Parent Index
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.helenknowles.com/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.helenknowles.com/index.php</a>
Medium
installation
mixed media
screen print
Location
The location of the interview
Manchester
United Kingdom
Artist Statement
<span>HELEN KNOWLES (b.1975) is an artist and curator of Birth Rites Collection. She studied at Glasgow School of Art and Goldsmiths University on the MFA and lives and works in Manchester and London. Recent exhibitions include; Goldsmiths University Interim show, (2015), COLLABORATE! Oriel Sycarth Galley Wrexham, (2015), The Withdrawing Room, Folkstone, (2014), Mokuhanga, Tokyo (2014), ‘Private View : Public Birth’, GV Art London (2013), Women’s Art Library, Kingsway Corridor Programme, Goldsmiths University, London (2013); Life is Beautiful’, Galerie Deadfly, Berlin (2012); Digital Romantics, Dean Clough Gallery (2012) and Walls are Talking, Whitworth Art Gallery (2010). She recently carried out a residency in Moscow/Vishny Volochok with the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art. Knowles has carried out other residencies at Santa Fe Arts Institute (2013), Gatley Primary (2010), UCLAN (2002) and Jodrell Bank Science Centre and Arboretum (1999-2001). A recipient of awards from Arts Council England, The Amateurs Trust and winner of The Great Art Prize, Neo Art Prize (2012). Her work is held in public and private collections including, The Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, Winchester Special Collections, The National Art Library, RCA and GSA Special Collections, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Tate Library and Archive, Museum of Motherhood, New York and Birth Rites Collection.</span>
Topic
birth
homebirth
childbirth
pregnancy
women
motherhood
social media
censorship
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Helen Knowles
birth
censorship
childbirth
homebirth
installation
Manchester
mixed media
motherhood
pregnancy
screen print
social media
United Kingdom
women
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Artist Parent Index
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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
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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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Exhibition Archive
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Exhibition Website
<a href="http://www.lentos.at/html/en/3312.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.lentos.at/html/en/3312.aspx</a>
Curator
Sabine Fellner
Elisabeth Nowak-Thaller
Stella Rollig
Gallery
Lentos Art Museum
Curatorial Statement
Super mom or childless? It almost looks as if there were no such thing any longer as motherhood pure and simple, as if all that is left is the choice between perfectionism and resignation. Nevertheless, motherhood has many aspects: joy, an intense experience of life, love relationship, learning, exultation, on one hand, and, on the other, frustration, being weighed down by expectations and the fear of being inadequate to the task. Until the 19th century motherhood was never called into question even if in actual reality the rewards often fell woefully short of projected ideals. It was only the advent of career openings for women that created alternatives to motherhood as a fulfilled life. Pregnancy, birth, abortion, life with children, the decision against children, the struggle of children with their mothers – all these themes have their place in art. Nor did we have to wait for 1960s feminist art to produce realistic portrayals of the mother’s role but fi nd renderings of social reality and individual conflicts already as early as the beginning of the 20th century. The exhibition showcases not only shifts in the stereotypes of motherhood from 1900 to today but also the changes in the perspective from which children see their mothers. It calls into question the optimisation logic of today’s life designs and nurtures the hope of change: an ever greater number of women with children opt out of the complex, often stressful regime of everyday life, refusing to accept their life world between career, children and consumption as preordained or God-given.
Location
The location of the interview
Linz, Austria
Event Type
Exhibition
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
23 October 2015 to 21 February 2016
Topic
pregnancy
birth
abortion
life with children
motherhood
parenting
Artists
Uli Aigner
Ed Alcock
Iris Andraschek
Robert Angerhofer
Siegfried Anzinger
Tina Barney
Max Beckmann
Charlotte Berend-Corinth
Werner Berg
Renate Bertlmann
Margret Bilger
Herbert Boeckl
Louise Bourgeois
Candice Breitz
Arthur Brusenbauch
Heinrich Campendonk
Hans Canon
Elinor Carucci
Sevda Chkoutova
Larry Clark
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/44" target="_blank">Lenka Clayton</a>
Lovis Corinth
Wilhelm Dachauer
Carola Dertnig
Rineke Dijkstra
Otto Dix
Nathalie Djurberg
Béatrice Dreux
Diane Ducruet
Miriam Elia
Anton Faistauer
Lucian Freud
Fritz Fröhlich
Aldo Giannotti
Burt Glinn
Lea Grundig
Johannes Grützke
Ernst Haas
Conny Habbel
Maria Hahnenkamp
Keith Haring
Karl Hartung
Karl Hauk
Carry Hauser
Gottfried Helnwein
Hannah Höch
Axel Johannessen
Birgit Jürgenssen
Mary Kelly
Josef Kern
Franz Kimm
Gustav Klimt
Max Klinger
Kiki Kogelnik
Oskar Kokoschka
Silvia Koller
Broncia Koller-Pinell
Käthe Kollwitz
Julia Krahn
Johannes Krejci
Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller
Alfred Kubin
Maria Lassnig
Leigh Ledare
Erich Lessing
Switbert Lobisser
Baltasar Lobo
Lea Lublin
Elena Luksch-Makowsky
Karin Mack
Christian Macketanz
Hans Makart
Jeanne Mammen
Matthias May
Jonathan Meese
Georg Merkel
Larry Miller
Gabi Mitterer
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
Ron Mueck
Otto Mueller
Alice Neel
Shirin Neshat
Max Oppenheimer
Florentina Pakosta
Rebecca Paterno
Pablo Picasso
Margot Pilz
Hanna Putz
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/114" target="_blank">Gail Rebhan</a>
Paula Rego
Rudolf Ribarz
Annerose Riedl
Frenzi Rigling
Franz Ringel
Ulrike Rosenbach
Judith Samen
Hansel Sato
Egon Schiele
Zineb Sedira
Ulrika Segerberg
Kiki Smith
Annegret Soltau
Viktoria Sorochinski
Daniel Spoerri
Sarah Sudhoff
Viktor Tischler
Paloma Varga Weisz
Borjana Ventzislavova mit Mirsolav Nicic und Mladen Penev
Nurith Wagner-Strauss
Andy Walde
Alfons Warhol
Gillian Wearing
Helene Winger-Stein
Anna Witt
Judith Zillich
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MOTHER OF THE YEAR
Between Empowerment and Crisis: Images of Motherhood from 1900 to Today
abortion
birth
life with children
motherhood
parenting
pregnancy
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.rosiegunn.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.rosiegunn.co.uk/</a>
Topic
motherhood
parenting
childhood
pregnancy
school
chaos
family life
domestic scenes
Medium
photography
video art
installation art
Artist Statement
The 3 screen high definition video installation ‘living room’, captures the banality of the domestic scene and contrasts this with the performance that the children create with in it. The living room is perhaps their stage – a place for them to try out ideas and show off. But also a multifunctional space for them to play, work, argue, relax and so on. It is a rather claustrophobic and chaotic piece that reflects the dominance that the kids have in the family living room during the holiday period. "As a mother and woman artist, I have been interested in my son’s games, words, songs and drawings and have made other work around these themes. Recently my daughter is becoming part of this work. The dialogue I have with my kids about the work I make is really important. I continue to ponder the implications of featuring my children in artwork that I might exhibit publicly and want to include them as part of a playful process in it’s development. I hope they regard the resulting images as representing celebration, desire, passionate attachment as well as sometimes showing trouble and tension."
Location
The location of the interview
Farnham
Surrey
United Kingdom
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Rosie Gunn
chaos
childhood
family life
Farnham
installation art
motherhood
parenting
photograph
pregnancy
school
Surrey
United Kingdom
video art
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.trishmorrissey.com/" target="_blank">http://www.trishmorrissey.com/</a>
Medium
photography
installation
video art
spoken word
Topic
motherhood
parenthood
parent/child collaboration
face painting
pregnancy
karaoke
family dynamics
family vacation
parenting
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
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Trish Morrissey
face painting
family dynamics
family vacation
installation
karaoke
motherhood
parent/child collaboration
parenthood
parenting
photography
pregnancy
spoken word
video art
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://methodinthemaking.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://methodinthemaking.wordpress.com/</a><br /><br />
<a href="https://methodinthemaking.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/gravidus-i/" target="_blank">Gravidus I</a>
<a href="http://clairehickey.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://clairehickey.blogspot.com/</a>
Medium
sculpture
social practice
Artist Statement
<p><span>The final presentation of my MA consists of a body of work entitled GRAVIDUS. The name GRAVIDUS is the Latin word for pregnant but can also mean heavy, burdened or teeming. This is appropriate for this work as it represents the physical aspects of my own pregnancy both internally and externally and also some of the emotional feelings that were present throughout. As a whole, the work uses the mould-making process as a basis for creating sculptural pieces and indirectly references my changing bodily state in pregnancy.<br /></span></p>
<p><span>GRAVIDUS I is comprised of a series of nine plaster blocks of variable size with different interior forms. For the MA show, it was arranged systematically over two reclaimed wooden structures. The materials used for the work’s display reference the supporting mechanism used within industry and workshop production to add strength to a final sculpture or building material. The openness of the display allows for different visual effects as the viewer moves around the piece and links to the visible internal spaces of the pieces themselves and theoretical notions of the boundaries of the pregnant body.</span></p>
Topic
pregnancy
maternal body
changing body
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Title
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Claire Hickey
pregnancy
pregnant body
sculpture
social practice
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://madisonomahne.com/" target="_blank">http://madisonomahne.com/</a>
Medium
performance art
sculpture
drawing
fiber
Location
The location of the interview
Cleveland
Ohio
Artist Statement
WOMB PROJECT STATEMENT: This 9 month long documentation explores the physical changes artist, Madison Omahne experienced throughout her first pregnancy. By crocheting around herself during this period, she creates a "womb-like" soft sculpture, which protects and comforts her, just as her womb protects and comforts her growing baby. Omahne utilizes the repetitive process of crocheting, a traditional craft, to reflect on her pregnancy, her body, and her baby growing inside. As her baby continues to grow and begins to manipulate her body, it is apparent that the sculpture is doing the same. The more the baby grows, the more difficult it becomes for the artist to continue creating her work. However, it is inevitable that she continues. This is catharsis. At last, when the sculpture is complete it is then deconstructed by the artist to reveal the greatest work of art, her baby. <br /><br />BIO<br /><br /> Madison Omahne received her MFA in Sculpture at Brooklyn College in 2011, where she studied under renowned artists such as Vito Acconci and Patricia Cronin. She currently lives and works in her home studio with her husband, son, and two dogs in Cleveland, OH.
Topic
pregnancy
domestic objects
interior/exterior
womb
maternal body
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/290" target="_blank">Of Women</a>
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Madison Omahne
drawing
fiber
interior/exterior
maternal body
performance
performance art
pregnancy
sculpture
womb
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Artist Parent Index
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://milaoshin1.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://milaoshin1.wordpress.com/</a>
Medium
writing
curating
poetry
video art
Topic
pregnancy
birth
home birth
childbirth trauma
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project Afterbirth - Curator</a>
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Title
A name given to the resource
Mila Oshin
birth
childbirth trauma
curating
home birth
labor
poetry
pregnancy
writing
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.kasalova.eu/fabrica.html" target="_blank">http://www.kasalova.eu/fabrica.html</a>
<a href="http://www.kasalova.eu/state.html" target="_blank">http://www.kasalova.eu/state.html</a>
<a href="http://www.kasalova.eu/jamy-video.html" target="_blank">http://www.kasalova.eu/jamy-video.html</a>
Medium
drawing
photography
painting
video art
Location
The location of the interview
Prague
Czech Republic
Topic
pregnancy
pregnant body
transformation
silhouette
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
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Title
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Jana Kasalová
Czech Republic
drawing
painting
photography
Prague
pregnancy
pregnant body
silhouette
transformation
video art
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.pieshake.com/#!experimental-shorts/cx06" target="_blank">http://www.pieshake.com/#!experimental-shorts/cx06</a>
Medium
film
video art
Location
The location of the interview
Richmond
Virginia
Artist Statement
Since the mid-1990s, I have been making films about outsiders, misfits and everyday radicals, telling stories that occupy the intersection of intimate experience and public discourse. Several of these works are lyrical explorations of motherhood made with a hand-cranked 16mm film camera. These experimental shorts and looping projections mine the tension between the subjective, lived experience of women and mothers; our interior lives of fantasy and projection, and reality as refracted through our media-dense world.
Topic
motherhood
16mm film camera
maternal ambivalence
sex education
conception
gestation
pregnancy
families
homes
domestic life
Exhibitions
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<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
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Title
A name given to the resource
Sasha Waters Freyer
16mm film camera
conception
domestic life
families
film
gestation
homes
maternal ambivalence
pregnancy
Richmond
sex education
video art
Virginia
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.helensargeant.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.helensargeant.co.uk/</a>
Medium
drawing
painting
installation
video art
sound
performance
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Todmorden
England
Artist Statement
Sargeant makes artwork about the female body, identity and mental fragility. She works across drawing, painting, photography, sound, video, performance and installation to explore her ideas.
Sargeant's arts practice is communicated through the visceral physical reality of the female body and psychological contexts. The work combines fiction and autobiography. Central to this practice is the utilisation of lived experience as a way to communicate emotions directly to an audience by making the personal public.
"We are born and we make marks through the vapour of our first breath, through our first excrement and from the saliva of our mouths enclosing around our mothers breasts."
– Helen Sargeant
Recent drawings represent the vulnerability and power of the biological body through pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. The pregnant body is schematised and seen as, a vessel or a holding place. Dr Jacques Rangasamy writes:
"In her drawings, the space of pregnancy overflows the confines of the body; expectations are transmuted into feelings, and are located in parts of the body that are connected by tubular structures, the curved flights of single arrows and what appears as knotted ropes or rosary beads. It is perhaps an echo of the intelligence of life as it is instinctually felt rather than reasoned and rationalised. And therefore more authentic.In the way Chinese artists use ink as a symbol of the creative potential of the Tao, or primordial essence, Helen Sargeant uses ink to represent the bodily fluids essential to the alchemy of life. The ink and the forms it engenders form part of the same organic nature."
Drawings representing birth were recently published in Studies in the Maternal visual editor Rebecca Baillie writes:
"In her series’ of birth drawings Sargeant unites the public practice of watching YouTube birth videos with the more personal experience of giving birth oneself. The drawings aim to expose both the physical and emotional experience of birth, paying attention to feelings of emotional detachment during the delivery of her sons The birthing body is explored as an indicator of cultural and social anxiety, giving voice to pain and trauma beyond that of the actual birth."
Images documenting breastfeeding through drawings and photography look to show maternal jouissance and the sensual pleasures of the mother baby relationship. Maternal subjectivity is further explored within recent photographs documenting a performance where Sargeant bakes at home with her children to make loaves of bread formed into birthing figures that are subsequently eaten by her family at breakfast. Another performance documents her baking bread from the dust in her vacuum cleaner. Throughout this practice Sargeant seeks to explore, challenge and critique normative discourses and idealised representations of motherhood.
Topic
pregnancy
birth
motherhood
breastfeeding
bread baking
fertility
pain
identity
vulnerability
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Project AfterBirth</a>
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Title
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Helen Sargeant
birth
bread baking
England
motherhood
pregnancy
Todmorden
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.bethgoobic.com/#!metamorphose/cghg" target="_blank">http://www.bethgoobic.com/#!metamorphose/cghg</a>
Medium
ceramics
Location
The location of the interview
Pompton Lakes
New Jersey
Artist Statement
Metamorphose is an ongoing conversation in clay about the journey of becoming a mother and being a mother. It takes place in this study of a common utilitarian household item, the mug. These mug forms are endowed with the presence of both vulnerability and strength. They celebrate the glorified transformation of the pregnant body, but they bring visibility and conversation to the continuing transformation of the body and person after birth. That they are mugs points to the commonness of everyday lived experiences by wo/men in motherhood and motherwork.
Each mug is entirely different reflecting the fact that the experience of mothering is unique to each individual person, even though motherwork is quite often mistaken as a universal concept. These kinds of assumptions about the universality of mothering actually makes the personal experiences of each person doing it invisible. Metamorphose is meant to resist that kind of assumption.
The mugs are a reflection of the pregnant body, the very beginning of the anatomical journey of the female body as it enters motherhood but the mugs also celebrate and acknowledge the transformation of the female body after pregnancy, post birth, which in our society, is a less celebrated transformation, and a less visible journey. Post birth bodies deserve the patience, celebration and glorification that childbearing bodies receive. Post-birth bodies are spacious, healing and rehabilitating, while still maintaining a new additional life. The mugs acknowledge, give presence, and beautify the body post birth.
These mug forms acknowledge the more subtle but continual anatomical journey our bodies endure during motherwork and also a person’s transformative and altering personal journey throughout motherwork. Pertaining to motherwork this conversation in clay is not exclusive to birth mothers, but opens up this conversation to all caregivers that take on motherwork. A man, or a non-biological parent may not physically go through the birthing journey but that person can experience the altering and changing of their own bodies and spirits throughout the journey of motherwork. The common daily motions endured during motherwork, and the effects and marks that motherwork experiences leave on our bodies are also portrayed here in these mugs. With the unknown journey and struggles that each child brings, caregivers are altered in person as they journey with that child through the highs and lows of each experience. This altering of person throughout the lifelong journey of motherhood, so private and personal, joyful and painful, messy and beautiful is celebrated and acknowledged in these basic everyday utilitarian objects.
Like motherwork, the mugs are individual, unique and beautifully imperfect. The forms are altered, and asymmetrical, with undulating rims and drippy glazes. I choose to alter the form as a way to represent and interpret how we are altered in person and body in motherwork. The mugs are fired in a salt and soda kiln resulting in much surface variation among the cups.
Each of these mugs are a functional sculpture and an experience, inviting the viewer to apply their own experiences in motherhood and motherwork to the conversation. The vulnerable yet commanding forms salute the invisible labor of caregiving and everyday experiences of motherwork, which involves a metamorphosis of person and body. Metamorphose is an artistic attempt to make the invisibility of motherhood and motherwork visible in households and workspaces via an everyday utilitarian object.
Topic
motherhood
becoming a mother
transformation
postpartum body
pregnancy
mugs
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Title
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Beth Goobic
ceramics
motherhood
mugs
New Jersey
Popton Lakes
postpartum body
pregnancy
transformation
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://alvarezerrecalde.com/" target="_blank">http://alvarezerrecalde.com/</a>
Medium
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Barcelona
Spain
Artist Statement
"Themes inspired by my personal experiences such as vital cycles, birth, motherhood, illness, immigration, ageing and death are found throughout my body of work. I create images that become a document of our love, our fears and our conquests.
My artwork is a contemporary social commentary through which I like to challenge the singular story that has been told and reinforced as a way of normalizing roles and attitudes. I cherish plurality and my way of doing so is to contribute images and testimonies that expands perspective and the constricted existing imagery.
Within a common experience like expecting a child or the passing away of a parent, we find transcendental truth. Art has the potential of transmitting that emotion to confront our daily numbness with something that is authentically substantial and profound.
I believe that there is a manipulative and deliberate lack of information that hinders the understanding of just how empowering and transformative motherhood can be. I cherish plurality and my way of contributing is to share my experiences in order to expand the constrained social imagery.
In "Birth of My Daughter", a self-portrait while giving birth, I take off my "cultural" veil. My maternity is not virginal or aseptic. I am the archetype of the primal woman, the woman beast that has nothing prohibited. I show a maternity not seen through the eyes of Eve (the divine punishment "you will give birth with the pain of your body"), but seen through the eyes of Lucy (the earliest hominid found to date). These photographs can help others rethink the idea of the fragile, painful, out of control and overly medicated birth that is considered the norm in many countries.
How I relate to nudity and blood is a mirror of my fascination with life. I am accepting of my changing body, amazed with how my children grow, and intrigued by the aging process. The blood and nudity seen within the context of my artwork is linked to authenticity and undiluted sensuality. I create images that become a document of our love, our fears and our conquests."
<a href="http://imowblog.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/in-conversation-with-ana-alvarez.html" target="_blank">Interview with Her Blue Print</a>
<a href="http://flicmagazine.com/mag/en/2014/07/ana-alvarez-errecalde/" target="_blank">Interview with Flic Magazine</a>
Topic
motherhood
birth
postpartum body
aging
daughter
breastfeeding
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Title
A name given to the resource
Ana Álvarez-Errecalde
aging
Barcelona
birth
breastfeeding
daughter
motherhood
postpartum body
pregnancy
Spain
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://danilarumold.com/gestationpaintings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://danilarumold.com/gestationpaintings/</a>
<span> </span><a href="http://danilarumold.com/#/abstractnarratives/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://danilarumold.com/%23/abstractnarratives/&source=gmail&ust=1558475421198000&usg=AFQjCNFLJoC7uNy6CiP5m-9eRloxpt7mNw" rel="noopener">http://danilarumold.<wbr />com/#/abstractnarratives/</a>
Medium
painting
drawing
mixed media
Location
The location of the interview
Albuquerque
New Mexico
USA
Artist Statement
<strong>Gestation:</strong> As the name suggests it was inspired by my pregnancies. Responding to my experience of motherhood, my work is involved with the repetitive nature of parenting and how that can been reflected in art and the practice of mindfulness. Other concerns within the work are family, the process of birthing and its counterpart, loss. Although these issues have been personal concerns, they are ones which have been shared by woman throughout history.
<span>Danila Rumold’s current series dissolves things seemingly in opposition. Deconstructing conventional notions of painting in her work, Rumold crosses over from painting into large-scale collage and installation. Employing household tools, such as stove-top burners and washing machines in the materials’ preparation, she blurs the commonly separated roles of care-taking and art-making. Sleeping, cooking and eating on top of paper results in spontaneous mark-making, which Rumold explores as formal abstractions while referencing the body. Using semi-translucent Mulberry paper stained with earthy colors made from regional plant and food dyes, Danila brings the components together with readymade art materials. Inviting everyday experiences and chance to catalyze the work, Rumold integrates the unconscious and conscious; art and life.</span>
Topic
gestation
pregnancy
repetition
loss
mindfulness
family dynamics
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/495">Painting at Night, Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN</a>
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/496">A Path Described by a Body, Casa Otro, Las Cruces, NM</a>
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Title
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Danila Rumold
California
family dynamics
family life
gestation
mindfulness
motherhood
pregnancy
repetition
San Francisco
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Exhibition Archive
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Location
The location of the interview
Barnstaple
Devon
United Kingdom
Topic
birth
pregnancy
research
interdisciplinary
midwifery
women and gender studies
social justice
early parenthood
research institute
About
Project AfterBirth began an exhibition intended to contribute to an interdisciplinary research initiative led by Project AfterBirth and a team of academics from the fields of obstetrics, mental health, midwifery, media studies, social justice, and women and gender studies, which is aimed at shedding light on modern pregnancy and birth practices and their impact on 21st century early parenthood experiences.
Organization Website
<a href="https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/</a>
Organzation Director
<a href="https://milaoshin1.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Mila Oshin</a>
Kris Jager
Gallery
<a href="http://www.whitemoose.co.uk/site/" target="_blank">White Moose</a>
Curator
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/19" target="_blank">Mila Oshin</a>
<a href="https://drunkwithjoy.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Kris Jager</a>
Artists
Alison O’Neill
Amanda West
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/30" target="_blank">Belinda Kochanowska</a>
Carole Evans
Chris Anthem
Clare Archibald
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/27" target="_blank">Courtney Kessel</a>
Csilla Nagy
Danielle Hobbs
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/135" target="_blank">Debbie Lee</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/31" target="_blank">Eti Wade</a>
Geoffrey Harrison
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/32" target="_blank">Helen Sargeant</a>
Hester Berry
Ione Rucquoi
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/36" target="_blank">Jana Kasalova</a>
Jenny Lewis
Josie Beszant
Laura James Wray
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/111" target="_blank">Lu Heintz</a>
Madison Omahne
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/37" target="_blank">Magda Stawarska Beavan</a>
Marilyn Kyle
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/38" target="_blank">Rachel Fallon</a>
Rocio Saenz
Ruth Gray
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/35" target="_blank">Sasha Waters Freyer</a>
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/11" target="_blank">Sarah Sudhoff</a>
Tareg Morris
<a href="http://artistparentindex.com/items/show/62" target="_blank">Trish Morrissey</a>
Event Type
Exhibition
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
Sat 3 Oct 2015 – Fri 13 Nov 2015
Curatorial Statement
The triumph of new motherhood. Stillbirth. Full-time fatherhood. Single parenthood. Miscarriage. Bringing up a child near a warzone. Bilingual speech development. Postnatal depression. Infertility. Adoption. These are just some of the themes dealt with in the 39 works of art showcased as part of Project AfterBirth; the first ever international exhibition on the subject of early parenthood, launching at White Moose gallery, UK, this October. Each of the 39 works in the exhibition – which spans the visual, performance, literary, film and digital arts – were made in the 21st century and represent the personal pregnancy, birth or new parenthood experiences of 30 international contemporary male and female artists. Due to the lingering taboo status of parenthood in the contemporary art world and its perceived inferiority as a subject, most of the works have never been shown publicly before. At times hilarious and at times deeply moving, the exhibition stands to leave a lasting impression on parents, but will also resonate with anyone in terms of their own individual birth and childhood journeys. The exhibition is also a first in demonstrating the profound influence pregnancy, birth and new parenthood experiences can have on the practice of 21st century female and male artists.
Exhibition Website
<a href="https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://projectafterbirth.wordpress.com/</a>
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Project AfterBirth
birth
early parenthood
England
London
midwifery
pregnancy
research
research institute
social justice
United Kingdom
women and gender studies
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Title
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Artist Parent Organization Database
Service
An organization supporting artist parents.
Topic
artist network
blog
curating
zine
art prize
Mother House
studio collective
interdisciplinary
online gallery
About
ProCreate Project is a platform aiming to provide practical help and financial support for artists, enabling them to continue producing work during We aim to help artists build and combine their new existence as mothers with their practice. <br />Mission <br />– Build a platform that can provide practical help and financial support for artists and help artists build and combine their existence as mothers with their practice. <br />– Connect artists with the forefront of creative business, creating networks and links with relevant movements, scenes and diverse niche groups. <br />– Support, showcase and promote artist’s projects through on and off line events, activities and campaigns. <br />– Develop communities that encourage open discussions between mother-artists and audience. <br />– Provide space, facilities and drop-in childcare services to enable creative development.
Organization Website
<a href="http://www.procreateproject.com/" target="_blank">http://www.procreateproject.com/</a>
Organzation Director
Dyana Gravina
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ProCreate Project
artist network
blog
breastfeeding
pregnancy
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://meganwynne.net/work/motherhood/photography" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://meganwynne.net/work/motherhood/photography</a>
Medium
photography
Topics
The topics addressed within the Artist's work.
bed sharing
breastfeeding
motherhood
parenthood
domestic space
personal boundaries
Location
The location of the interview
Norfolk
Virginia
Artist Statement
My recent work focuses on the subject of myself and my daughters to speak about the intensity, intimacy, and interdependence of motherhood. Playing with the persona of the mother and the mother-as-artist, the work brings up uncomfortable questions about identity, autonomy, and childrearing.
The images are at once familiar and unfamiliar, inviting and repelling. The work often straddles the line between referencing the family snapshot and cold clinical documentation. There is also ambiguity in how the individuals in the scene are emotionally and physically relating to each other. This uncertainty helps to create a sense of surreality in the work, and dark humor and melodrama within the narrative further push this aspect of the imagery. I use these devices to reflect on the deeply mysterious, contradictory, and often unknowable psychological undercurrent beneath everyday experiences of interconnection.
The mother-child relationship is the most primary and foundational relationship in one's life. In addition, there is a deep transgenerational legacy of the mother-child dynamic, in which beliefs, behaviors, and past traumas haunt one generation to the next. In my work I explore my maternal inheritance, as I address the intensity and profound complexity of the bond I have with my children. These depictions of the maternal experience challenge dominant reductive and over-sentimentalized representations of motherhood, as well as idealized and over-simplified perspectives on childhood.
Topic
motherhood
bedsharing
domestic space
breastfeeding
personal boundaries
Artist Residency in Motherhood
birth
childbirth
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/404" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The M Word, One Paved Court Gallery, 1 – 12 May 2019</a>
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Title
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Megan Wynne
bedsharing
birth
breastfeeding
childbirth
domestic space
lactation
motherhood
photograph
photography and motherhood
pregnancy
United States
Virginia