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 …..
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 …..
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 …..
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 …..