Postcards from Motherhood
Postcards from Motherhood is a group exhibition and community engagement project curated by multidisciplinary artist Tanya Voges. The exhibition features work by artists who are also mothers Bridget Currie, Zoe Freney, Rochelle Haley, Alana Hunt, Tania Mason and Tanya Voges. Postcards from Motherhood will be accompanied by a series of public programs which allow parents to participate as part of a rigorous arts community. All welcome!
Exhibition dates October 1-30 2020
Supported by Adelaide City Council through The Mill’s CaM-Res (Curatorial Mentorship Residency)
Mentored by Adele Siluzas Visual Arts Curator, The Mill
Parenthood can be an isolating experience, particularly for artists. To counter this, Tanya Voges curated 'Postcards from Motherhood' - an exhibition drawing on her network of mothers with an active art practice, in the accessible format of postcards.
Inspired by the Artist Residency in Motherhood by Lenka Clayton, Tanya is undertaking a self defined residency using the restrictions of parenting her daughters as inspiration rather than viewing them as limitations to her arts practice. In an attempt to create opportunities for mothers, she based this residency on The Motherhouse model that Dyana Gravina (Procreate Project curator and performance artist) developed in London where artists studios have on site childcare. Leading up to the exhibition Tanya hosted open studio practice for mothers and their children based on the premise of UK based organisation Mothers Who Make. calling it Mother Artists Making Art, Australia (MAMAA) It is now also an online community with occasional physical meet ups as Covid allows.
Birth Repeated Opening Performance by Tanya Voges. Works pictured by Rochelle Haley and Bridget Currie. Photography by Sam Roberts
