Project AfterBirth
I am delighted that Don’t scribble me out will be shown as part of the wonderful Project AfterBirth exhibition. 30 international artists. One ground breaking new exhibition. EXHIBITION: Project AfterBirth GALLERY: White Moose DATES: Sat 3 Oct 2015 – Fri 13 Nov 2015 TIMES: Tuesday – Saturday 11 am – 5 pm ENTRY: FREE LOCATION: White...
Ma Ma/ Boo Boo
The film utilises 215 intimate family photographs and home video footage taken by the artist, together with autobiographical prose that weaves a journey through Helen's thoughts, feelings and experiences of breastfeeding.
The egg, the womb, the head and the moon exhibition review
By Rebecca Baillie The strength of the recently concluded exhibition in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire – the egg, the womb, the head and the moon – was in its inclusivity and openness. To create a structure and then to renounce control is difficult; difficult when parenting, difficult when curating and difficult to do as an...
Her Family
Playing with embedding my children's drawings into my own, thinking about the body of the mother and the child, gender, sexuality, nurture and protection.
Mummy milk
I have been feeding my son for four years now and my milk has almost dried up. These images seek to capture the memory of my milk and the physical and emotional work of feeding my son. I see my work of breastfeeding much like endurance performance. This series (of which here are 4 of 24)...
The milk and the blood
8th -22nd March 2013: Ebor Studios, Littleborough
Opening Friday, 8th March 6-8pm
Dust to bread
The dust that collects in my vacuum cleaner is full of cat and human hair, dead skin, lost lego pieces, cut up bits of paper and scraps of childrens' creativity, feathers from the cushions that line our sofa, sweet wrappers dropped, mud from the souls of our shoes stamped inside and lots of other...
River of milk
The river of milk that has flowed from my breasts for four long years has almost run dry. My experience feels like an ocean a continent, the Pacific, Africa. It has been a long emotional journey that has bounded me closely to my son.
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.
Studies in the Maternal: Volume 4
"Birth icons drawings" series published in Studies in the Maternal: Volume 4, together with editorial text by Rebecca Baille.
Desperate Artwives: Part Two
As part of Desperate Artwives: part two exhibition at Leroy House, London, I will be showing work alongside other featured artists Amy Dignam, Rachel Fallon, Jo Hatty, Esther Geis, Dawn Andre Beedell, Sue Hotchkis, Sharon Reeves, Sam Alderslade.
Hebden Bridge Open Studios 2012
As part of the 2012 Hebden Bridge Open Studios. I will be opening the doors or my space at Linden Art Studio to the public on on Friday 6th, Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th July between 11am and 5pm. Come along, meet me and the other artists (Sarah McDade, Sheila Tilmouth, Louise Crosby, Joan Francis) in my studio,...