Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood
Arnolfini, 9 March - 26 May 2024
Midlands Art Centre, 22 June - 29 September 2024
Hayward Gallery Touring’s major group exhibition Acts of Creation, previously on show at The Arnolfini, is now open at the Midlands Art Centre. Featuring the work of more than sixty modern and contemporary artists, amongst them Caroline Walker, the exhibition plunges into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the feminist avant-garde to the present day.
While the Madonna and Child is one of the great subjects of European art, we rarely see art about motherhood as a lived experience, in all its complexity. Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood addresses this blind spot in art history, asserting the artist mother as an important – if rarely visible – cultural figure.
Curated by Hettie Judah, it approaches motherhood as a creative enterprise, albeit one at times tempered by ambivalence, exhaustion or grief. Acts of Creation explores lived experience of motherhood, offering a complex account that engages with contemporary concerns about gender, caregiving and reproductive rights.
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