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Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, begining at Arnolfini, Bristol on 9 March - 26 May 2024, is a major group exhibition which plunges into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the feminist avant-garde to the present day. Including works by Annegret Soltau, Everlyn Nicodemus and Su Richardson.
The exhibition will address diverse experiences of motherhood across three themes: Creation, which looks at conception, pregnancy, birth and nursing; Maintenance which explores motherhood and caregiving in the day-to-day; and Loss, which touches on miscarriage and involuntary childlessness, as well as reproductive rights. The heart of the exhibition is a series of revelatory self-portraits – a celebration of the artist as mother.
The exhibition will tour as follows:
Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham: 22 June to 29 September 2024
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield: 24 October 2024 to 21 January 2025
Dundee Contemporary Arts: Spring 2025 (exact dates to be confirmed)
