Mother Art Prize 2020 Online Tour and Catalogue
Online Tour: Group Exhibition Cromwell Place, London 5 – 30 Oct 2020
Video by Marco Benozzi – Music ‘No Fanfare’ by Drunk With Joy
Featuring artists that work across a range of media, the works were selected among 626 entries from 45 countries and judged by Niamh Coghlan (Director, Richard Saltoun Gallery), Pauline Desouza (Director, Diversity Art Forum), Elvira Dyangani Tse (Director, The Showroom), Eva Langret (Artistic Director, Frieze London), Claire Mander (theCoLAB Director and Curator) and Frances Morris (Director, Tate Modern).
Finalist Artists:
Cassie Arnold
Helen Benigson
Violet Costello
Emmeline de Mooij
Christine De Vuono
Sabba Elahi
Michelle Hartney
Madison Hendry
Sadie Hennessy
Shannon Lewis
Katherine Lovett
Lauren Pisano
Eileen Reynolds
Louise Richardson
Carly Schmitt
Holly Stevenson
Marta Stysiak
Kim Walker
Emma Wilson
Coral Woodbury
The Mother Art Prize 2020 Publication is available for pre-orders
Printed in an edition of 100
164 pages - 21 x 28 cm
20 artists - 9 essays
This new art publication contains additional specially commissioned essays:
Introduction: “Mother” is a Verb – Dr Helen Hester – Associate Professor of Media and Communications at the University of West London and author.
Screens and phones held more than babies – Helen Benigson – Mother Art Prize Winner 2020
Women’s bodies and transformation – Niamh Coghlan – Richard Saltoun Gallery Director
Reproduction, Technologies and Justice – Katherine Down and Heather McMullen – Senior Research Associate at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge – Lecturer at the Centre for Global Public Health, Queen Mary University of London
Representation, Sexuality, Stereotype – Elizabeth Fullerton – Art critic, Art historian and author of Artrage
Artist-Mothers Un-Silenced – Claire Mander – theCoLAB Director and Curator
Maintenance is a drag; it takes all the fucking time – Hettie Judah – Art Critic and Writer
Between Trauma and Love – Dr Kate McMillan – artist, lecturer and current author of the Freelands Foundation Report ‘Representation of Female Artist’s in Britain during 2018 and 2019’
Conclusions: Flavia Frigery – National Portrait Gallery Curator