Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood
Dundee Contemporary Arts
152 Nethergate
Dundee
DD1 4DY
19 April - 13 July 2025
Opening hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 11-6pm
open late thursdays until 7pm
Hayward Gallery Touring’s major group exhibition Acts of Creation, previously on show at The Arnolfini, Midlands Art Centre and Millennium Gallery, will be on show at Dundee Contemporary Arts this Spring.
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.
