Woman Up!

 Helen Sargeant is an artist and mother of two sons, she lives and works from home and her studio in West Yorkshire. Helen’s practice includes autobiographical writing, drawings, painting, performance and time based media. Her work has been published in books and journals and she has presented her work at international conferences. She makes work about the maternal body and her experiences of mothering. Her work aims to challenge idealised representations of the mother and make visible their caring work. Through her arts practice she also aims to communicate with honesty the complexitiesSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Episode 12 – Helen Sargeant appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

 In the 11th episode of Woman up! we speak to Eti Wade who speaks candidly about the depression behind her work, her time out of practice and feelings of confidence as an artist and mother.Eti Wade is an artist and academic specialising in photography.She was the programme leader for the MA Photography at the University of West London and her photographic practice is a personal investigation of the limits of maternal subjectivity expressed through photography and video and she has also written on the subject of the maternal gaze inSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Episode 11 – Eti Wade appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

Lena Simic is a performance practitioner, scholar and pedagogue, born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, living in Liverpool. A co-organizer of The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home and Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University, UK.Lena is an artist/scholar who is engaged in researching maternal performance, children in performance, critical arts practice and art activism. Lena’s recent ‘Arts Projects and Performances’ include Manifesto for Maternal Performance (Art) 2016! (with Emily Underwood-Lee, SC Gallery, Zagreb; Royal College of Art, London, Astrid Noack’s Atelier, Copenhagen, 2017); Who wants another baby? video film (Centre for Culture in NoviSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Episode 9 – Dr.Lena Simic appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

 Amanthi Harris was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in London. She studied Fine Art at Central St Martins and has degrees in Law and Chemistry from Bristol University. Her novel BEAUTIFUL PLACE is published by Salt (September 2019). LANTERN EVENING, a novella, won the Gatehouse Press New Fictions Prize 2016 and is published by Gatehouse Press (2017). Her short stories have been published by Serpent’s Tail and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as Afternoon Readings. She also runs STORYHUG an ACE-funded storytelling, art and writing project.Website: www.amanthiharris.com https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/beautiful-place-9781784631932 http://www.gatehousepress.com/shop/new-fictions/lantern-evening/To viewSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Episode 8 – Amanthi Harris appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

In this 7th episode we talk to a pioneer of feminist art in 1970 – Su Richardson.  Known for her involvement in the Postal Art Event (which went by several names) and her soft sculptural work Burnt Breakfast (1975.) Su chats to us  about her home-made objects, domesticity, femininity and about her decision to leave the art business to be involved with a punk rock band( http://www.gigslutz.co.uk/interview-terry-gerry/).For subtitled version please follow this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVi2rv1GbW4 The post Woman UP! Podcast Episode 7 – Su Richardson appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

This month on Woman up! we talk to Rose Gibbs. Rose is a feminist artist and writer who regularly initiates and contributes to talks, symposiums and discussions, including Who’s Holding the Baby? at Tate Britain. She is co-founder of a number of collectives and collaborative projects and has worked with The East London Fawcett Group and Hackney’s SERA group. She has curated exhibitions and shown work at the ICA, The Showroom amongst others art spaces. She is particularly interested in the gender implications of care work, she runs a smallSEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Episode 6 – Rose Gibbs appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

[md_text md_text_title1=”pixflow_base64IA==” md_text_title_separator=”no”]This week on Woman up! we talk to Iyato Dun. Iyato describes herself as a mum, a citizen scientist, a philosopher, an activist and a writer.With her we are discussing topics such as racialized motherhood and diasporic motherhood.Iyato will be launching her blog in August.To view a subtitled version please follow this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRhq1jcovPs The post Woman UP! Podcast Episode 5 – Iyato Dun appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

This instalment features Laura Godfrey-Isaacs Artist, Midwife and creator of the Maternal Journal, an award winning project exploring the benefits of creative journalling  within the realm of maternity care.‘Many times, I’d sit in a lecture and I’d think there were so many amazing artists making work about this. Why aren’t we looking at this? Why aren’t we referencing this? And realising that I had these things in my head and many others didn’t obviously because I’d had an arts background!’Laura Godfrey-Isaacs 2019Laura Godfrey-Isaacs is an artist, midwife and birth activist.SEE DETAILS The post Woman UP! Podcast Episode 4 – Laura Godfrey-Isaacs appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

In the third episode of the Woman Up! Podcast we talk to Dr. Althea Greenan. The post Woman UP! Podcast Episode 3 – Althea Greenan appeared first on Desperate Artwives.

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