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Woman Up! Series 3, episode 4. Megan Wynne  –  ‘The Body as a Site for Mothering and Art’Megan Wynne is a conceptual artist based in Chesapeake, Virginia who investigates of maternal mental health, ambivalence, the shifting power dynamic of the mother-child relationship, and prevailing notions of what embodies a “good” mother. Using her body as a site to explore the innate interdependence and vuln...

Woman Up! Series 3, episode 3. Ruchika Wason Singh  – ‘Mapping Mother Artists in Asia’ Ruchika Wason Singh is a visual artist, art educator and independent researcher based in Delhi. She has widely exhibited in South -East Asia and also participated in international artist residency programs. Ruchika has been a U.G.C doctoral research fellow at the University of Delhi. In 2016 she initiated A.M.M....

Woman Up! Series 3, episode 2. Nicola Hunter – CENSORSHIP, BODIES and VULNERABILITY Artist and activist, Nicola Hunter was born in north east England (UK), began their path in fine arts and has since been performing and showing work nationally and internationally for over a decade. Hunter has seen international success as founder of intersectional feminist project Raising the Skirt and continues t...

Woman Up! Series 3, episode 1. Jodie Hawkes – MOTHER TROUBLE MAKERS Jodie is one half of performance duo Search Party. Formed in 2005 Search Party’s work has encompassed theatre, live art, durational performance, participatory art, home video and performative writing.  Search Party have made performances for theatres, galleries, public squares, 24-hour parties, high streets, village fetes, parks,...

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The Guerrilla Girls are anonymous artist activists who use disruptive headlines, outrageous visuals and killer statistics to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in art, film, politics and pop culture. They believe in an intersectional feminism that fights for human rights for all people and all genders. They undermine the idea if a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the sub...

PART 2Jennie Klein is a professor of art history at Ohio University. She is the co-editor, along with Myrel Chernick, of The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art, published in 2011. In 2014 she and Chernick chaired TFAP@CAA Day of Panels, which was also themed around maternity and motherhood. She has recently published several essay on art and the maternal, including “Feminist Art and Motherho...

Jennie Klein is a professor of art history at Ohio University. She is the co-editor, along with Myrel Chernick, of The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art, published in 2011. In 2014 she and Chernick chaired TFAP@CAA Day of Panels, which was also themed around maternity and motherhood. She has recently published several essay on art and the maternal, including “Feminist Art and Motherhood: An...

Emma’s work often focusses on honesty, action and a playfully destructive DIY aesthetic using materials with different transformative properties – such as water, clay, earth, salt and ink – to create strong visual imagery which is often messy, intense and celebratory. In recent years, her work has been focussed on the None of Us is Yet a Robot project, a series of performance pieces recently publi...

Shirley Cameron is an artist whose work covers 6 decades. Shirley studied sculpture at Central Saint Martins College with Anthony Caro as her tutor’ Whilst studying there Shirley met Roland Miller, who at that time was travelling with The People Show theatre company. For almost 20 years they travelled together becoming principal figures in the development of Performance Art in British alternative...

Hermione Wiltshire studied Sculpture at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, at BA level followed by an MA at Chelsea School of Art. In 1993, Hermione Wiltshire was a Momart Fellow at the Tate Gallery Liverpool, where she spent six months carrying out a residency followed by an exhibition at the Tate gallery Liverpool called Elective Affinities. She was also a scholar at the Br...

Through leading seminars, curating panels, and consulting services, Women Picturing Revolution (WPR) co-creators Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago are reclaiming and retelling history in a manner that is both radical and necessary. By highlighting the work of female photographers who have documented conflicts, crises, and revolution in private realms and public spaces, WPR sheds light...

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[md_text md_text_title1=”pixflow_base64IA==” md_text_title_separator=”no”]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&...

 For subtitled version please see belowImage 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, 20184. An Edible Family in a Mobile Home, Bo...

  On this month Woman Up! Podcast we talk to Nydia Blas/Nydia Boyd. Nydia is a visual artist who grew up in Ithaca, New York and currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She lives with her husband and two children.  Nydia uses photography, collage, video, and books to address matters of sexuality, intimacy, and her lived experience as a girl, woman, and mother. She delicately weaves stories concerni...

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...

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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-Pales...

 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 moth...

 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...

Lena Simic is a performance practitioner, scholar and pedagogue, born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, living in Liverpool. A co-organizer of The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home and Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University, UK.Lena is an artist/scholar who is engaged in researching maternal performance, children in performance, critical arts practice and art activism. Lena’s recent ‘Art...

 Amanthi Harris was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in London. She studied Fine Art at Central St Martins and has degrees in Law and Chemistry from Bristol University. Her novel BEAUTIFUL PLACE is published by Salt (September 2019). LANTERN EVENING, a novella, won the Gatehouse Press New Fictions Prize 2016 and is published by Gatehouse Press (2017). Her short stories have been published by Serpent’...

In this 7th episode we talk to a pioneer of feminist art in 1970 – Su Richardson.  Known for her involvement in the Postal Art Event (which went by several names) and her soft sculptural work Burnt Breakfast (1975.) Su chats to us  about her home-made objects, domesticity, femininity and about her decision to leave the art business to be involved with a punk rock band( http://www.gigslutz.co.uk/in...