Isis Dove-Edwin & Leonora Lockhart - a creative collaboration
In response to academic and popular literature around the topic, as well as our own lived experience as mother-artists, we have been expanding the space for critical dialogue about the impact of being a mother/parent on artistic careers, and the implications of educational structures on the lived experience of parent-artist-students. This sits within the broader public discussion of underrepresentation in the arts. Specifically, even though there are more women than men at art schools, men are disproportionately successful in their artist careers, as judged by gallery representation and other parameters. Motherhood is one factor in the lack of representation of women.
Fresh graduates of the RCA, we are exhibiting our creative response to RCA wide workshops-in which we asked how motherhood influenced artist practice, identity and career progression, navigation within tertiary educational structures, at RCA2023.
As 2nd Shift, we will continue to respond creatively and build upon the strong multi-disciplinary networks that we have established with mother/parent-artists across the College.
Creative Respsonses
Glazed ready-made mugs with bespoke decals inspired by conversations during round-table workshops. Installation can be seen at #RCA2023: Royal College of Art (Battersea Campus) 30th June - 3rd July and at the Truman Brewery, Brick Lane - 13th -16th July.
Part of RCA2023's Parent? Mother? Artist? Installation at the Battersea Campus.
Parent? Mother? Artist? Symposium - 4th May 2023, Royal College of Art
panel: Hettie Judah, Dr Charlotte Bonham Carter, Professor Freddie Robins, Tessa Peters
“Supporting diversity whether it be age, ethnicity, gender, lone or parental status isn’t just about being fair - it’s also about us allowing this diverse flow of experience, nuance, innovation, invention to flourish so the work , the gallery, the practice of art, is as rich as it can be”.
Melanie Jackson in How Not to Exclude Artists Mothers (and other parents), HETTIE JUDAH, 2022
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