Danielle Hobbs (Australia, Victoria) Fight or Flight (reversible caplet for shifting psychological states) (2013) Porcelain teeth, cotton, emu feathers, button (with armature) ARTIST STATEMENT: This work takes its name from the psychological reaction that occurs in response to a harmful …..
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 …..
Rocío Sáenz (México) Dreaming About A Killer Dog (2015) Mixed media on digital print on canvas ARTIST STATEMENT: “The superposition of incoherent and hilarious elements within my work is a continuous fusion required to express The Quotidian Chaos. My drawing, …..
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, …..
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 …..
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 …..
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 …..
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 …..