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.
The egg, the womb the head and the moon
“The egg, the womb, the head and the moon” www.eggwombheadmoon.com, has been created to show existing work and research-driven practice about the maternal by the Mewe arts collective in response to the title. The site includes documentation of visual art work, video, sound, performance and texts by members of Mewe, including contextual dialogue and blog posts that have...
Stone Soup
Making “Stone Soup” with my son, like that in the fairy tale. Performance made as part of The Egg The Womb The Head & The Moon
Stay and play
Stay and play is a series of performances staged in Sargeant's home, a collaboration with her youngest son Naoise (Aged 3)
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.
Mother & Child workshop
Created as part of the Big Draw, this workshop included a life drawing session from a Mother and Child life models, a seminar about the representation of Mother and Child in art history and contemporary fine art, together with time to develop work inspired by personal experiences of mothering.
Linden Arts Group Winter Exhibition
A group exhibition of work by the Linden Arts Group showing work by Joan Francis, Sheila Tilmouth, Louise Crosby, Sara McDade and Helen Sargeant, held at the Festival Shop, Hebden Bridge in November 2011.
Second born
A book created using documentary photography to record the work of a mother caring for her young child.
thumbsucking-breastfeeding-sleeping
A project drawing directly upon maternal experiences to create visual and text based narratives exposing the work of mothers.
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."
Mum’s memories of motherhood
A project drawing directly upon maternal experiences to create visual and text based narratives exposing the work of mothers.