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In Episode 6 we have invited artist Melissa Mostyn to join our monthly chat.

Melissa has enjoyed a portfolio career as an artist, writer and film-maker for over twenty years, adopting a variety of roles for Shape, Maverick Television, Disability Arts Online, Deafnitely Theatre, Architecture Week South- East, Tate and V&A.

Before having children, for five years Melissa led a groundbreaking Deaf visual art project, Salon, funded by Arts Council England and the Esme Fairbairn Foundation, and had journalism published in The Independent, Esquire and Vogue.

Since becoming a parent Melissa has committed herself to empowering others through her work, particularly Deaf women. She has presented in BSL for DeafHope, Women’s Aid, NHS Safeguarding and the British Society for Mental Health and Deafness, and published an e-book, My Daughter and I.

Melissa’s last film ‘Listen, even when your heart is crying’ (2014), was Official Selection for Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2015 and Best Documentary nominee in the CINEDEAF Awards 2015.

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Image Credits:
1. Great & Tiny War, Bobby Baker, 2018. Image © Daily Life Ltd.
2. Ordinary Heaven, Bobby Baker, 2018, part of Great & Tiny War (Room 2, 1915 / 2015). Photo by Andrew Whittuck, 2018
3. Britannia, Bobby Baker, 2018, part of Great & Tiny War (Room 1, 1914 / 2014). Photo by Andrew Whittuck, 2018
4. An Edible Family in a Mobile Home, Bobby Baker, Stepney, London, 1976. Photo by Andrew Whittuck, 1976
5. Displaying the Sunday Dinner, Bobby Baker, 1998. Photo by Andrew Whittuck.
6. Photographic documentation of Pull Yourself Together, Bobby Baker, London, 2000 © Hugo Glendinning
7. Drawing on a Mother’s Experience, Bobby Baker, 1988. Photo by Andrew Whittuck
8. EPIC DOMESTIC Propaganda Poster, Bobby Baker, 2019
9. Kitchen Show, Bobby Baker, LIFT, London, 1991. Photo by Andrew Whittuck, 1991
10. Cook Dems, Bobby Baker, 1990. Photo by Andrew Whittuck

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Work from the series work ‘The Girls Who Spun Gold‘


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Amanda Bintu Holiday considers herself an accidental poet having been an artist and then filmmaker for much of her life. Born in Sierra Leone, shge moved to the UK at the age of five. After studying Fine Arts at Wimbledon she exhibited in landmark black art shows across the UK in the 1980s before moving into film – directing experimental shorts for the Arts Council, BFI and Channel 4. Between 2001 and 2010 she lived in Cape Town where she worked in educational TV.

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Virginia Chihota – Testimony with Empty Hands 2015


The Art Poems



Flight Into Egypt, Paula Rego


Kalk Bay 2003


The Dame With The Goat’s Foot, Paula Rego

 

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It is with immense pleasure that we present you with this year 13th and last Woman Up! podcast introducing Professor Jaqueline Rose.

Jaqueline Rose is a Co-Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and Director of the London Critical Theory Summer School.

She is internationally known for her writing on feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and the politics and ideology of Israel-Palestine. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision (1986, Verso Radical Thinkers, 2006), The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1991), States of Fantasy (1996), The Question of Zion (2005), The Last Resistance (2007), Proust Among the Nations – from Dreyfus to the Middle East (2012) and the novel Albertine (2001). Women in Dark Times has just been published by Bloomsbury. Conversations with Jacqueline Rose came out in 2010, and The Jacqueline Rose Reader in 2011. States of Fantasy and The Last Resistance have formed the basis of musical compositions by the acclaimed young American composer, Mohammed Fairouz. A regular writer for The London Review of Books, she wrote and presented the 2002 Channel 4 TV Documentary, Dangerous Liaison – Israel and the United States. She is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Social Justice, ACU, Sydney, a co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices in the UK, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Before arriving at Birkbeck, she taught at Queen Mary University of London as Professor of English, and in Autumn 2014, as Diane Middlebrook/Carl Djerassi Professor of Gender Studies in Cambridge.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mothers-Essay-Cruelty-Jacqueline-Rose/dp/0571331432

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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 complexities of emotions felt by women who mother.

Helen has a special interest in maternal mental health which has led her to collaborating with midwives, health workers, and academics to deliver talks and participatory workshops with the aim of improving health and wellbeing in mothers through creative practice. Helen has produced collaborative work with her youngest son such as M(other) and Son (2016) an international residency to Tampere Finland and has initiated cross-disciplinary projects such as The Egg The Womb The Head & The Moon (2014). Her most recent work has seen her contributing to Laura Godfrey Isaacs Maternal Journal project (2019) and she is currently working with Paula Chambers to produce a series of exhibitions and a symposium called Mothers Ruin.

http://helensargeant.co.uk/motherandson/

https://www.eggwombheadmoon.com/

https://www.maternaljournal.org/

www.helensargeant.co.uk

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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 in contemporary photographic art.


CC Available in English in below video. For Deaf/Hard of Hearing watchers: the captions start after about 20 seconds -during which there is a short instrumental intro.

Making things (doing the splits), 2013

Jocasta, 2011

Goodnight boys, 2006

Kisses, 2001

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This months episode is available only as a video (with captions) due to some technical difficulties in sound quality at certain points during the podcast (something that many of you will know can occasionally happen when you are Artists working within limited budgets!). We do hope this doesn’t effect your enjoyment of what we feel is an incredibly interesting interview!

Katy Deepwell is an art critic and Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism at Middlesex University (since 2013). She is author/editor of 10 books 1995-present, many on feminism and art: e.g. (ed) Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms (Valiz, 2020); All-Women Art Spaces in Europe in the Long 1970s (co-edited with Agata Jakubowska, Liverpool University Press, 2018) and (ed) Feminist Art Manifestos: an anthology (KT press, 2014). She founded KT press and The Feminist Art Observatory in 1998, as well as editing n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal (1998-2017).
In 2017, she published n.paradoxa’s MOOC (mass open online course on art and feminisms) at https://nparadoxa.com .

https://www.ktpress.co.uk