Procreate Project is a place of knowledge sharing, representation, artistic production and experimentation.
About Us
We have worked towards systemic change and equity for mothers and primary caregivers in the arts and creative industries sicen 2013.
Only 13% of works in the permanent collections of major art museums are by women artists. For mothers and primary caregivers, the barriers run deeper still, compounded by a lack of infrastructure that pushes many out of their practice during the critical years of pregnancy, parenting and care work.
Through its platforms, advocacy and the Integrated Care Toolkit, Procreate Project works to change that, creating the conditions for artistic development, visibility and representation that the current system do not provide.
An artist-led project with an ecosystem around it
Procreate Project was founded by interdisciplinary artist and community organiser Dyana Gravina, whose practice sits at the intersection of art-making, feminist organising and embodied practices. Over more than a decade, the organisation has been shaped by the work and commitment of a number of people who have been central to its development. Former directors Amy Dignam, Sarah Le Quang Sang and Paola Lucente each played a significant role in building and sustaining Procreate Project and Mother House Studios over the years, with Elisa Fontana serving as non-executive director and childcare consultant since 2017.
Beyond the organisation itself, the project exists within a wider ecosystem of artists, researchers and practitioners.
Procreate Project has been supported over the years by an advisory board whose expertise spans curatorial practice, collecting, arts leadership and feminist scholarship: Niamh Coghlan, Pauline De Souza, Sylvie Gormezano, Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, Marcelle Joseph, Elizabeth Neilson and Bianca Chu.
Procreate Project has developed its work in close collaboration with a number of partners and institutions whose support has been instrumental across its history, including Helen Knowles with Birth Rites Collection, Anthea Greenman at the Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths, Hermione Wiltshire at the Royal College of Art, Science Gallery and King’s College London, Arts Council England, the Mayor of London, The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, IKLECTIK, Mimosa House, Create London, AWITA and LADA Live Art Development Agency.
The Procreate Project umbrella includes:
– Events and exhibitions
– Workshops and educational programmes
– Art commissions
– Mother Art Prize
– Online and offline Art sales
– Mother House Studio model. Artists’ Studios with Integrated (Child)care
– The Integrated Care Toolkit
How to support us:
Procreate Project is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company. All of our work, including our platforms, programmes and the Mother House Studios, is sustained entirely through the generosity of individuals, public funders, and trading activities. Like many grassroots organisations, much of the work that keeps Procreate Project alive is carried out on a voluntary basis, including by its founder.
Your support, whether a one-off gift or a regular contribution, directly sustains the artists, spaces and structures that make this work possible and keeps it accessible to all. Every donation, of any size, makes a difference.
If you would like to work directly with Procreate Project’s founder, please visit our consultancy page.
“This work began as a reorientation of the body in relation to myself and the world. What I encountered was the dynamic tension between what we are told about an experience and what it truly is in practice. That tension became fertile ground for transformation, and for Procreate Project to be born. What started as a deeply personal reckoning has grown into a collective inquiry, informing how I work today alongside artists and institutions to rethink the structures that shape creative life.” – Dyana Gravina, founder and uthor of Integrated Care: From Individuals to Collective Systems (2026)
