Matrescence Series 2024
Exploring Lucy Jone's literature 'Matrescence', this silhouette/figure of the pregnant painted body is explored as a canvas and sculpture, and the metamorphosis of pregnancy.
Whilst the pregnant body is the most natural transformation the body can go through, public breastfeeding and places mothers can go whilst caring for babies have social restrictions and judgements. Our femininity aesthetics in question which have been manufactured through and onto our bodies.
Thank you to my beautiful, strong, resilient friend photographed at 36 weeks pregnant.
Further work available on request.
Motherhood Exhibition 2025
All love Begins and ends here.....
24th - 28th March - Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, Kensington Campus, Royal College of Art.
PV Thursday 27th March - Open to the public from 5:30pm. Free tickets for the public see bio.
“Long taboo, the realities of motherhood are now the subject of urgent discussion”, Hettie Judah, Acts of Creation, 2024.
“The RCA SU is pleased to present a student exhibition exploring the joys and heartache, gifts, and struggles of mothers-and of not becoming a mother-through a dozen artists from programmes across RCA. While the Virgin and Child are one of the great subjects of European art, there is more to be expressed about motherhood as a lived, complex experience which this exhibition aims to address. Please take a minute here to listen to their stories”
Artists:
Alison Dollery @alisondolleryartist
Angele Lautier @angele_lautier_artist
Annie Edwards @a_knee_
Charmaine Beneyto @eniamranch
Eileen Morley@eieileeenmorley
Eunjung Kim @dotto_ri
Hannah Scott @hannah.b.scott
Izabela Beata Kutcha @explorer_1984
Lola Luk @luk_lola
Maria Bacha @theartofmachiabacha
Tina Surridge @tina_surridge_
Usoa García Sagués @usoa_textileartist
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#pregnancyart
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@artist_parent
Alison Dollery's Work at Motherhood Exhibition 2025.
Motherhood Exhibition Posters
While the Virgin and Child are one of the great subjects of European art, there is more to be expressed about Motherhood as a lived experience, including themes of identity, change, blurred boundaries, sacrificing the self, retaining strength, patience and grounding whilst fighting solitude, depression, worthlessness and fear, and being often flooded with pride and joy. This exhibition addresses many of these themes.
This exhibition explores the joys and heartache, gifts and struggles of mothers-and of not becoming a mother-through a dozen artists from visual art programmes accross the RCA.
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