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 …..
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 …..
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. …..
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 …..
PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Csilla Nagy and Gábor Kasza (Hungary, Budapest) Birth & ReBirth by Cipolla Collectiva (2013) Video of a one-off ritual performance ARTIST STATEMENT: “In April 2013 I re-collaborated with photographer Gábor Kasza to create an image …..
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 …..
Belinda Kochanowska (Australia, Queensland) Germination & The Eden of My Flesh (2014), from the series My Flesh Is Your Flesh Archival pigment prints ARTIST STATEMENT: I created the series My Flesh Is Your Flesh during the pregnancy and early months …..
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 …..
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 …..
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 …..