http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2665
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 |
Rights and Permissions: | The author retains copyright of this thesis. |
Type of Work: | Masters Thesis |
Appears in Collections: | Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access) |
File | Description | Size | Format | |
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01front.pdf | title page; table of contents; acknowledgements; list of illustrations; summary/abstract; introduction | 221.91 kB | Adobe PDF | |
02whole.pdf | main body of text (chapters 1-4); conclusion; bibliography; appendix; list of visual material; catalogue of work presented for examination | 10.62 MB | Adobe PDF |
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