• 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 …..

  • 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 …..

  • 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 …..

  • 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 …..

  • 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 …..

  • 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 …..