BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Magdalena Blom (Sweden) A Child/Ett Barn (2015/16) Short Film ARTIST STATEMENT: “A Child is a short film investigating the dual aspect of the state of the foetus being pure and unaffected yet easily impressionable. …..
Advertising executives have known for decades that there are few words more effective than ‘self-worth’, ‘empowerment’ and ‘free choice’ in making Western women sit up and listen. Every time they and their partners now read these words in magazines, on …..
PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: 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 …..
Rachel Epp Buller (USA, Kansas) The Food Landscape (2007/8) Food based screen prints (in 10 hand-bound books) ARTIST STATEMENT: The Food Landscape is a conceptual project that visually narrates the end of my breastfeeding journey. Based on a food log …..
PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Muffie Connelly (USA, Oregon) Induction Ceremony (2013) Dance performance ARTIST STATEMENT: Induction Ceremony is a 53 minute dance performance film directly resulting from choreographer Muffie Connelly’s personal experience with isolation and postpartum depression. This work …..
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, …..
Madison Omahne (USA, Ohio) Womb Project (2013-14) Photo collage with soft sculpture ARTIST STATEMENT: This 9 month long documentation explores the physical changes I experienced throughout my first pregnancy. By crocheting around myself during this period, I created a womb-like …..