Woman UP! Podcast by Desperate Artwives
I am a member of the Desperate Artwives an arts collective set up by Amy Dignam. In 2019 I was invited to record a podcast for Women Up! and was interviewed by Susan Merrick.
Intergenfem
Milk on Rocks, 2013, Film shown as part of Intergenfem a group show curated by Amy Dingam and Katy Howe of Desperate Artwives as part of the FiliA Conference in London. FiliA 2017, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H OAL. Saturday 14th October 11am – 5pm. Sunday 15th October 10am- 4pm.
The milk and the blood
8th -22nd March 2013: Ebor Studios, Littleborough
Opening Friday, 8th March 6-8pm
Birth: Party Surprise
Birth: Party Surprise (2013) are a series of pencil and ink drawings that use public images of You Tube birth videos together with my personal experiences of giving birth.
M(other) Icon image included in ” Straight outta vagina” by Laura Godfrey Isaacs
Image from M(other) Icons series included in ” Straight outta vagina” – how depictions of violence abuse in Western art, media and culture can be seen to influence and perpetuate the incidence of ‘obstetric violence’ in maternity care.” by Laura Godfrey Isaacs, published in MIDIRS Midwifery Digest, March 2018.
The Pregnant Archive
I presented a talk about my arts practice in relation to the representation of the pregnant body, pregnancy testing and 1970’s performance arts practice at The Pregnant Archive Symposium, Birkbeck University. I am developing a collaborative project with Jesse Olszynko-Gryn a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow based in the Department of History and Philosophy at The University...
Motherhood & Metamorphosis
Delighted to be showing A Silent Earthquake, Film, 2017 together with Mama, Digital Drawing Tryptich 2017 as part of this group exhibition Motherhood & Metamorphosis curated by Jill Moore McKeith at Lansdown Gallery Stroud. Opens Tuesday 7th November- Saturday 11th November 2017. Opening times: 10am- 3pm daily.
Mama
A series of digital collages thinking about how memories are drawn and contained within the body. Memories of intense, exhausting, mothering and how that made me feel.
Body of drawings made to fund PLAY AWAY residency
I created this series of drawings as part of a crowd funding initiative to help raise money to cover the expenses of me and my youngest son’s PLAY AWAY residency at The Mothership .
Taydellinen ympyra
Mother Art: text by Saara Sillanpää and Helen Sargeant, article, Pages 22- 25, Tampere Arts Association Magazine.
Tampere sanitary towel drawing
Made whilst caring and collaborating with my son during the M(other) & Son arts residency n Tampere, Finland. I recently found this in my box of documents and art work in the studio, and really liked it as I felt it captured the fleeting nature of our time together in Tampere. Art made with a...
“New Maternalisms”: Tales of Motherwork (Dislodging the Unthinkable)
Illustration of Helen Sargeant, Man Sized, Digital Collage, 2014 included in Eti Wade’s paper; Maternal Art Practices: In Support of New Maternalist Aesthetic Forms.