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Acts of Creation Podcast

We’re delighted to share a series of podcasts connected to Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood.

Listen to Clare Johnson (Associate Professor in Art & Design, UWE, Bristol) in conversation with contributing artists Janine Antoni, Leni Dothan, Jessa Fairbrother and academic Sushila Chowdhry who has been working with local mothers in response to Acts of Creation.: On Art and Motherhood.  

Please note that the podcasts include discussion of breastfeeding, infertility, loss, grief and post-natal anxiety.

Podcast produced by Molly-Rose Crossley, https://mollyrosecrossley.wixsite.com/virgo-media. 

Royalty Free Music on BenSounds by Benjamin Lazzarus.

Published

Fri 27 Jun

About Clare Johnson

Clare Johnson teaches on both the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Visual Culture. She supervises PhD students and leads the New Starter Researcher Development Scheme for the School of Arts. Clare co-leads the Visual and Material Practices Research Group VAMP, which is a group of cross-disciplinary art and design practitioners, historians and theorists interested in visuality and visual culture. She is also co-lead for the 'Ways of Writing in Art and Design' (WOW) research network.

Clare's primary research interests are feminist approaches to art history, inter-generational approaches to contemporary art and visual culture, and maternal studies and visual representation. She has published on the work of Tracey Emin, Vanessa Beecroft, Eleanor Antin, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono, Marina Abramovic, Eti Wade and Lena Simic amongst others.

Clare is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Gender Studies

Women sitting a bathtub in a barn with cows. One cows head is nuzzling the women
Janine Antoni, 2038, 2000. Photo by Janine Antoni Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
An image of a women breastfeeding a baby on a blue gallery wall
Sleeping Madonna by Leni Dothan part of Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood in DCA galleries
A blue gallery wall featuring large images on the wall
The Temple, part of Acts of Creation in DCA galleries
Women sitting a bathtub in a barn with cows. One cows head is nuzzling the women
Janine Antoni, 2038, 2000. Photo by Janine Antoni Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
An image of a women breastfeeding a baby on a blue gallery wall
Sleeping Madonna by Leni Dothan part of Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood in DCA galleries
A blue gallery wall featuring large images on the wall
The Temple, part of Acts of Creation in DCA galleries
Women sitting a bathtub in a barn with cows. One cows head is nuzzling the women
Janine Antoni, 2038, 2000. Photo by Janine Antoni Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
An image of a women breastfeeding a baby on a blue gallery wall
Sleeping Madonna by Leni Dothan part of Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood in DCA galleries
A blue gallery wall featuring large images on the wall
The Temple, part of Acts of Creation in DCA galleries