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 …..
Laura James Wray (UK, Cornwall) Bound and Controlled (2011) Slip cast white earthenware, smoke fired and bound with rubber inner bungy cord ARTIST STATEMENT: Twenty five weeks pregnant, my first experience of crowning was a cruel and brutal introduction to …..
PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Courtney Kessel (USA, Ohio) In Balance With (2012) Performance documentation on film (5 minute edit) ARTIST STATEMENT: “In this performance my six-year-old daughter, Chloe, and I sit at opposite ends of an empty sixteen-foot seesaw. …..
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 …..
Rachel Fallon (Ireland, Wicklow) Caul Birth (2015) and Baby’s First Knife & Service Rattle (2013) Bronze; cotton, wool and silk thread ARTIST STATEMENT: I am a visual artist whose practice is based on ideas of protection and defence particularly in …..
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 …..
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 …..