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.
M/OTHER VOICES Column: The Miserable Mother
"A mother needs to know herself, to own up to the diverse, contradictory, often overwhelming feelings evoked by motherhood. It doesn't matter whether she stays at home, goes out to work, is partnered or single. Only a mother who can face her own inner turbulence can make sense of her child's. It's only by accepting...
Artist As Mother As Artist
Description of Exhibition & Associated Events: Artist as Mother as Artist 22 April- 19 May Featuring Nicola Canavan, Nicola Carter in collaboration with Seraina Dejaco, Paula Chambers, Amy Dignam, Rachel Fallon, Dinah Gold, Tracey Kershaw, Jessica Paige Greig, Sam Rose, Helen Sargeant, Eti Wade, Zoo Indigo. Artist as Mother as Artist is a co-curated gallery exhibition...
Actions made alone in landscape after school drop off.
A series of short sactions made outside walking in the landscape near my home after dropping my youngest son off at school. These sketches deal directly with my feelings of being confined and frustrated by my role as Mother and are an attempt to release emotions into the landscape through my actions. The performances are...
Drawing from birth
I led a day long workshop about drawing from birth experiences for Nativity Hub, Leeds, a health and wellbeing project set up by independent midwife Claire Harbottle.
MSee
At home time my youngest son Naoise excitedly handed me an orange covered book with “me, mummy” written on the front that he wants to use to draw pictures of “me in my mummy’s tummy when she was pregnant and him in my tummy when I was pregnant.” In this video Naosie can be seen drawing me developing inside my...
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...
Visualising Birth through Art
A relaxing and creative workshop with expert one to one tuition, support and guidance from an experienced artist. Suitable for anyone with an interest in birth and art, no previous art experience necessary, open to all adult learners. Particularly suited to Artists, Pregnant Women, Doulas, Midwives, Health, Care & Social workers. Imagining and expressing birth...
Water Birth: Stories to inspire and inform
Illustration on back cover, poetry and further illustrations inside.
The child inside the mother
Tracing and copying lines and gestures from Naoise drawings, collaging these into family photographs fusing together the present and the past, exploring mother/daughter relationships.
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...