How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents)

How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents)

by Hettie Judah
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 26/09/2022

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For too long, artists have been told that they can't have both motherhood and a successful career. In this polemical volume, critic and campaigner Hettie Judah argues that a paradigm shift is needed within the art world to take account of the needs of artist mothers (and other parents: artist fathers, parents who don't identify with the term 'mother,' and parents in other sectors of the art world). Drawing on interviews with artists internationally, the book highlights some of the success stories that offer models for the future, from alternative support networks and residency models, to studio complexes with onsite childcare, and galleries with family-friendly policies. Some artists have described motherhood as providing them with renewed focus, a new direction in their work, and even inspiration for a complete change of career. Other artists choose to keep their domestic and creative lives compartmentalised. All are placed at a disadvantage by the art world as it is currently structured. This book argues that by making changes and becoming more sensitive to the needs of artist parents, the art world has much to gain.

ISBN:
9781848226135
9781848226135
Category:
Society & social sciences
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
26-09-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Lund Humphries
Hettie Judah

Hettie Judah is the chief art critic of the British daily newspaper The I, and a contributor to the Guardian and the New York Times.

Her work regularly appears in specialist art publications, including Frieze, Numéro Art, Art Quarterly, Artnet News and Tate Etc. as well as lifestyle publications such as Vogue International, ES Magazine, House & Garden and The Plant magazine, to which she is contributing editor.

She is a lecturer at the Christie's Education art courses in London, presents talks and discussions for museums and art galleries around London and beyond, and has recorded podcasts for the Guardian. She lives and works in Kilburn, London: a neighbourhood immortalised by Leon Kossoff.

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