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Woman UP! Podcast Episode 12 - Helen Sargeant
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/
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