Ann Coxon, Motherhood, 2023: ‘Due to the slow shutter speeds, however, it was often necessary for the mother or nanny to be present within the frame, to keep the child still. It was therefore common for the mother to hide behind chairs and drapery, giving the resulting photographs a somewhat sinister aspect to the contemporary eye. The Victorian equivalent of using your child’s photograph as a profile picture on social media, the ‘hidden mother’ photographs speak volumes about the pride and selflessness of new mothers, who in this case have erased themselves from the pictures.’
Book: The Baby on the Fire Escape – Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem by Julie Phillips 2022
“Alice Neel made this portrait of her second son Hartley. The painting is also a self-portrait of her motherhood. The wide eyes of the boy seem fixed on the viewer, but the one he sees is Alice, who is revealed in a dresser mirror as she paints and watches over her child – artist and mother in a moment of unity.”
Alice Neel struggled throughout her career of being both a successful artist and a mother.
“A family friend observed that Alice had “worked out her own code of behaviour, whose cornerstones are two: 1) her freedom to paint; 2) the well-being of her two boys. For 1, she will surrender everything else …. The second … comes lower – but higher than anything else but the first.””
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Photographs of: Clementina Maude, Sally Mann and Julia Margaret Cameron
Ndiritu, Grace , Labour, at Kate MacGarry Gallery, London, 2023
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Artist: Alice Neel
Documentary Alice Neel, Director: Andrew Neel, 2007
Exhibition: Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990 at Tate Britain 2023-24
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