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| Title: | Towards a Language of Interruption |
| Authors: | Sturgess, Helen Mary |
| Keywords: | mother artist mothering art motherhood intersubjectivity identity |
| Issue Date: | 31-Mar-2008 |
| Publisher: | University of Sydney. Sydney College of the Arts (Visual Arts). Department of Sculpture, Performance and Installation. |
| Abstract: | My research paper is an attempt to begin to articulate and document my lived experience of being both a mother and an artist. Underpinned by research into the cultural and social history of the experience of mothering and the cultural institution of ‘motherhood’, I revisit and reinterpret some of my earlier works, and explore issues of identity brought up by the relational experience of mothering. I seek out other women who are, or have been, both mothers and artists – particularly sculptors – whose work relates to their subjective experiences of mothering. From them I select and investigate both works, and reflections, which I feel resonate with my own experience of combining the roles of mother and artist. Against this background I describe and interpret my own recent body of work, drawn from my subjective experience of becoming, and being, a mother whilst continuing my artistic practice. |
| Description: | Master of Visual Arts |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2665 |
| Appears in Collections: | Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access) |
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