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 …..
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 …..
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 …..
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 …..