Sunday 19th June
19:30-21:00 BST (UK) / 14:.30 – 16:00 EDT (New York)/11.30- 13:00 PST (Seattle & Vancouver)
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In this online conversation artists from the MAKE ART/NOT SAD exhibition Margaux Portron, Jen McGowan, Kelly Marshall, Kim Hopson and Helen Sargeant (Maternal Art) chaired by Kitty Dinshaw, (Artistic Director of Subject Matter Art )discuss the impact of emotional labour and access to art making from the Artist/Mother perspective.
The artists tell the story behind their co-curated, on-line show and explore the challenges faced when working as Artist/Mothers and the need to use their everyday experiences to create art.
All the artists in the exhibition have built strategies of resilience to create thought provoking, challenging and critical work. Media discussed includes drawing, collage and performance. Subjects and themes explored by the group in the exhibition include the maternal body, being differently abled, the transition to motherhood and its impact on mental health and wellbeing, neurodiversity, class, care, matrilineal heritage, trauma, medication and motherhood .