Georgina Talfana
Georgina Talfana (UK, Surrey)
Two sided Pregnancy (2017)
Rotring pen and graphite on cartridge
ARTIST STATEMENT:
“I am 4 months pregnant and my work explores the paradox of being really happy to be pregnant and on the other hand feeling really uncomfortable in my body. The emotions that I endured during my...Read More »
Lizzie Philps
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Lizzie Philps (UK, Bristol)
Maternity Leaves (2013)
Film/Walking Performance
ARTIST STATEMENT:
“Maternity Leaves records my exploration of the visceral and performative intersections between walking documentation and maternal ambivalence during the first year of my daughter’s life. These (not quite) solitary suburban walks offered time to not only...Read More »
Fiammetta Horvat
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Fiammetta Horvat (UK/France)
Mystery Dough (2014)
Stop Motion Video Performance
ARTIST STATEMENT:
“Seven years ago I fell pregnant and inevitably the transformation of my body began. I experienced motherhood as the ultimate transformation and birth as the ultimate rite of passage. I had entered the state of creator...Read More »
Liz Hart
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Liz Hart (UK, Gloucestershire)
Mummy Monster (2016)
Filmed Theatre Performance/Live Art
ARTIST STATEMENT:
“Mummy Monster began it’s life whilst I was spending long hours at home caring for my young family. I was interested in how their chaos could contribute to rather than interrupt the creative process. The...Read More »
Sophie Cero
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Sophie Cero (UK, Northamptonshire)
Manual Labour (wipe) (2016)
Performance Film
ARTIST STATEMENT:
“As part of a series of eight films embedded in the perfectly white walls of Still Life’s gallery/house, Manual Labours (wipe) offers an eternal monotony that reveals both a specificity and a universality of domestic experience.
The...Read More »
Rachel Jane Dean
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Rachel Jane Dean (UK, Leeds)
Nativity (2014)
Filmed Performance
ARTIST STATEMENT:
“Nativity came out of my fascination with the enduring power of the myth and magic of the Virgin Mary. I worked with film maker Lucy Barker to make the film when I was seven months pregnant,...Read More »
Josh Appignanesi & Devorah Baum
Josh Appignanesi & Devorah Baum (UK, London)
The New Man (2016)
Feature Film
The New Man is a ground-breaking new feature film by acclaimed British director Josh Appignanesi and his wife, lecturer and author Devorah Baum, about their own very personal experience of new parenthood. It’s a film for anyone who...Read More »
Townley & Bradby
BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION:
Townley & Bradby (UK, Norfolk)
Between Waking and Sleeping (2014)
Short Film
ARTIST STATEMENT:
“Since 2010 the sites we have been responding to as an artist duo are the physical spaces of our family home and the social space created between the five of us (two...Read More »
Drunk With Joy
BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION:
Drunk With Joy (UK, Devon)
Grow (2016)
Short Film (Music Video)
ARTIST STATEMENT:
“Like so many artists, we expected parenthood to have an impact on our time and finances, but we never could have imagined we would end up writing/creating an entire body of work about...Read More »
Trish Morrissey
Trish Morrissey (UK, Bristol)
Ave Maria Karaoke (2010)
Video
ARTIST STATEMENT:
In Ave Maria Karaoke, I sing the Ave Maria hymn into an imaginary microphone in the style of a drunken woman performing a torch song. It was shortly before I gave birth to my son. The garland...Read More »
Erin Faith Allen
Erin Faith Allen (UK, London)
Motherless Mothers (2015)
Mixed media on canvas
ARTIST STATEMENT:
The traumatic birth of my daughter unlocked deeply rooted layers of traumatic childhood memories. Born myself into severely disconnected family lines and having little support, I turned to art and research. Investigating the lives of...Read More »
Chris Anthem
Chris Anthem (Lebanon/UK)
Liberate the Remains… (2015)
Oil on canvas
ARTIST STATEMENT:
The submitted painting comes from a series painted in Beirut, Lebanon, where we’ve been raising our son.
The paintings are straightforward – a child playing with a severed head form, a telephone, cow udders, a drum....Read More »
Jenny Lewis
Jenny Lewis (UK, London)
Nicola and Jemima & Rebecca and Osiris
From the series One Day Young (2013-14)
Colour photographs
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I wanted to tell a story about the strength and resilience of women post-childbirth that I feel goes largely unacknowledged in today’s world. To create the image...Read More »
Eti Wade
Eti Wade (UK, London)
Kisses (2001)
Photograph
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I consider this work my rawest expression of maternal ambivalence. The image forms part of my ongoing effort to express complex and unpalatable maternal subjectivity. The marks the mother makes on her child’s body fuses female sexuality, desire, maternal love, violence and...Read More »
Joanna Rosenfeld
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Joanna Rosenfeld (UK, Brighton)
Motherhood: the (Un)speakable (Un)spoken (2015)
Cross-art form Performance
ARTIST STATEMENT:
“Giving birth and having children has had the biggest impact of any single event on me as a woman, my practice as a theatre maker and my artistry. I discovered the...Read More »
Geoffrey Harrison
Geoffrey Harrison (UK, London)
Asteroid 13.10.14.00.10 TJEX (2015)
Graphite on paper
ARTIST STATEMENT:
This title refers to the date and time of the birth of my son. The format reflects the naming convention for astral bodies including asteroids and comets. What appears to be an asteroid reveals itself...Read More »
Ione Rucquoi
Ione Rucquoi (UK, Devon)
Anna and Magnus (2015)
Placenta blood and gold leaf
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My current blood prints are related to works I started in 2010, shortly after the birth of my first child. They are also a natural progression from my last big project Sanctae, a large-scale...Read More »
Carole Evans
Carole Evans (UK, London)
Father and Son (2015), from the series Out of the Woods
Photograph
ARTIST STATEMENT:
This work is part of an ongoing project about being a parent for the first time. Initially about the trials we faced as new parents, it is now a documentary of...Read More »
Lizzie Philps
Lizzie Philps (UK, Bristol)
The Pilgrimage of the Prodigal Daughter (2013)
Tryptich video installation, 1 hr
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My mother is an excellent navigator. The only time I’ve heard her say “fuck” was when she threw the map at my father on holiday. She taught me what contour lines...Read More »
Mila Oshin
Mila Oshin (UK, Exeter)
Passage (2016)
Poetry collection, music album, short film
“I am moved by the sustained anguish yet calm contained in these poems.”
Dr Andrea Liss, author ‘Feminist Art and the Maternal’, USA
“I love the poems so much. Thank you for your courage in writing about...Read More »
Marilyn Kyle
Marilyn Kyle (UK, Surrey)
The Mending (2013)
Cast porcelain with on glaze artist made transfers, found objects
ARTIST STATEMENT:
As an artist, rooted in printmaking, I use a variety of media and processes dependent upon the needs of the work in hand. This includes traditional processes (e.g. print and...Read More »
Magda Stawarska-Beavan
Magda Stawarska-Beavan (UK, Lancashire)
Mother Tongue (2009)
Set of 3 screen-prints with sound installation
ARTIST STATEMENT:
In Mother Tongue I am trying to represent the passage of time and preserve the ephemeral moments in the development of a child’s relationship with language. This is essentially an investigation into...Read More »
Laura James Wray
Laura James Wray (UK, Cornwall)
Bound and Controlled (2011)
Slip cast white earthenware, smoke fired and bound with rubber inner bungy cord
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Twenty five weeks pregnant, my first experience of crowning was a cruel and brutal introduction to motherhood. Hollow and discarded, my feelings of emptiness and...Read More »
Tareg Morris
Tareg Morris (UK, Cornwall)
Fathers for Injustice (2012)
Ceramics
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I document my time of struggle, vulnerability and injustice as a single mother trying to protect my young child, exploring the feelings and experiences of my journey inside the British court system, which...Read More »
Hester Berry
Hester Berry (UK, Brighton)
Summer Evening (2014)
Oil on board
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I was fiercely adamant that I would not let my painting slip once I became a mother. I had a week off from my work after the birth, and then I launched back into making paintings with...Read More »
Helen Sergeant
Helen Sargeant (UK, West Yorkshire)
Don’t Scribble Me Out (2014)
Digital collage
ARTIST STATEMENT:
This self-portrait depicts me as both mother and child. Sticking together two moments in time it plays with ideas within my wider practice that are concerned with maternal ambivalence, vulnerability and the effect of the...Read More »
Ruth Gray
Ruth Gray (UK, Derbyshire)
When They Told Me – View From The Operating Table (2007)
Lino print
ARTIST STATEMENT:
This piece came about in 2007 from a desire to express the initial numbness of being told I was to have a still birth at nine months pregnant. The discovery by the...Read More »
Josie Beszant
Josie Beszant (UK, North Yorkshire)
Mending (2015)
Mixed media (fabric, thread, pill capsules, ink, pins, paint)
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My work explores the beauty that can be found in the broken and damaged, in stories that we carry through the objects preserved. I use found items combined with papers, textiles...Read More »
Debbie Lee
BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION:
Debbie Lee (UK, Dorset)
Forceps (2015)
Acrylic on paper
ARTIST STATEMENT:
“As a mother, artist and art therapist I am interested in helping to de-marginalise the areas of play and parenthood by elevating their significance. For me the playground was both a source of enjoyment and anxiety....Read More »
Clare Archibald
Clare Archibald (Scotland, Burntisland)
Gift Wrapped (2015)
Poetry installation & performance (audio)
ARTIST STATEMENT:
The actual idea for this work came from my own personal experience of giving birth to a baby that I knew would either be born dead or die shortly afterwards. My daughter lived for minutes...Read More »