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.
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)...
Milk on Rocks
Milk on Rocks documents a performance whereby Sargeant scrubs a rock on the yorkshire moors near her home with a bucket of cow’s milk. The milk makes a large white mark and drips down the rough surface of the rock as she scrubs. With this work Sargeant connects the body of the woman with the landscape,...
Milk and the blood: exhibition text by Helen Sargeant
Ebor Studio, Littleborough 8th- 22nd March 2013 Sargeant makes work about the female body and her experiences of mothering. The milk and the blood, is an exhibition of her recent drawings, photography, sound, video and performance work. We are born and we make marks through the vapour of our first breath, through our first excrement...
The milk and the blood
8th -22nd March 2013: Ebor Studios, Littleborough
Opening Friday, 8th March 6-8pm
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)
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.
Lord Street Loves Bread
“Lord Street Loves Bread” involves making, baking, sharing and eating bread togther at knead and natter sessions based at the Civic Arts Centre, Oswaldtwistle.
Bread Baking with Mother
The death of my beloved bread maker has triggered this current project. I have been reminding myself of the lovely theraputic qualities of kneeding bread, and Naoise has been loving getting messy with the sticky flour mess.
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.