Creative practice and motherhood

PhD candidate Anne-Marie Jean; painter and lecturer at National Art School Rachel Fairfax; multi-media artist and Fulbright Scholar Janna van Hasselt and ANU alumni and painter Dionisia Salas, are all practicing artists who, in 2016, are mothers for the first time.

The exhibition explores the parameters of creative practice in the context of new motherhood. Issues of time, energy, identity, relationships, space, money, responsibility and creativity were grappled with and impacted the resulting bodies of work. This exhibition facilitates and illuminates the ongoing development of creative practice by each individual artist and created support, motivation, direction and collegial dialogue.