PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: 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 …..
PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Elizabeth Wurst (Germany/Peru) Super Pregnant Gangsta Bitch (2015) and Push & Pull (2016) Video Performance ARTIST STATEMENT: “Super Pregnant Gangsta Bitch shows me performing in my ninth month of pregnancy to a medley of pop …..
BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Lu Heintz (USA, Rhode Island) Learning To Letter, Tandem, Lead/Follow (2014) Three Short Films ARTIST STATEMENT: “My work is personal, but it is not necessarily about me. The personal is a conceptual realm I …..
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 …..
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 …..
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 …..