Editions Project for Birth Rites Collection
I have created a limited edition artwork to help the Birth Rites Collection raise money to bring two tapestries and two documentation works by the internationally acclaimed artist Judy Chicago over from America.
Birth: icon drawings
This series of ink and pencil drawings have been created through making observational drawings from youtube birth videos, and in referencing the birth records of my two sons, remembering the physical and emotional experiences of birth and referencing historical anatomy sketches.
Birth: paint swatch bodies
Painted on DIY paint sample's this series of drawings depicts the second active stage of labour as the cervix opens.
Birth Rites symposium
Helen Sargeant was recently invited by curator Helen Knowles of the Birth Rites Collection to attend the Birth Rites conference at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.
Birth: separation sketches
Colour sketches exploring the mental and physical separation of baby from the mothers body at birth.
September babies
A series of observational drawings made from a photograph taken shortly after the birth of my first child.
M(other) Icons
This series of ink and pencil drawings was shown as part of a solo exhibition, M(other) at the Chapman Gallery, The University of Salford, 2008. Dr Jaques Rangasamy of The University of Salford has written a review of this exhibition.
First Born
"A book created using documentary photography and prose to reflect upon a mothers time spent with her first child."