Mother Art Prize
The Mother Art Prize is the only international open call for self-identifying women and non-binary visual artists with caring responsibilities
The Mother Art Prize is the only international open call dedicated to self-identifying women and non-binary visual artists with caring responsibilities. It provides crucial visibility and support to practitioners whose caregiving identities are often unacknowledged in cultural institutions. Open to artists working across painting, drawing, mixed-media, photography, digital art, sculpture, ceramics, installation, textile, sound and video, with no theme restrictions, the prize promotes and supports artists who are mothers and parents while drawing the attention of the wider public to a broad spectrum of themes that would otherwise be overlooked and devalued.
Candida Powell Williams, Mother Art Prize 2019 Mimosa House
Across four editions, the Mother Art Prize has grown into a significant international platform, from its launch in 2017 at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning to Mimosa House in 2018, Cromwell Place in 2021 and the Zabludowicz Collection in 2023. Across this period, participation grew from around 70 to over 600 entries from 36 countries, nurturing partnerships with established galleries and bringing new contents and operational models into different realities and audiences.
Mother Art Prize 2017
Mother Art Prize 2019
Mother Art Prize 2021
Mother Art Prize 2023
Across four editions between 2017 and 2023, participation in the Mother Art Prize grew from around 70 to over 600 entries from 36 countries, creating a platform where artwork and care work can be valued and critically engaged with. The prize has been an important vehicle to initiate and nurture partnerships with established galleries and art institutions, bringing change with content and new operational models into different realities and in conversation with different audiences. It has received the support and collaboration of 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, Mimosa House, Cromwell Place, Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Modern, Frieze London, AWITA, Zabludowicz Collection, Create London, Richard Saltoun Gallery and the Diversity Art Forum.
“These twenty artists who are also mothers prove that nothing is taboo, and a mother’s lived experience is as worthy a subject as any other for representation in the art world.”
– Marcelle Joseph, Mother Art Prize 2018 Judge and curator
Click here to watch the 2020 online tour of the Mother Art Prize edition at Cromewell Place
