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, …..
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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 …..
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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 …..
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Madison Omahne
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 …..
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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 …..
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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 …..
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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 …..
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Amanda West
Amanda West (USA, California) The Summer You Were Born (2012) Song/Music Video ARTIST STATEMENT: I had always looked forward to birth. When at last it was my own birthing time, I breathed and moaned and meditated through it and in …..
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Sonia E Barrett
Sonia E Barrett (Germany, Bavaria) Run (2013) Preformance sculpture (latex, milk, thread, wood, plastic skirting board, roofing nails), 2min Artist Statement: Sonia Barrett’s work is an intervention in furnished lives and offers new ways to think about subordination, privilege and …..