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  • WHAT’S ON 2025
  • 🟠 EXHIBITIONS
    • • NEST INSTALLATION
    • • Photography Showcase
  • 🟠 ARTS & CRAFTS
    • • Makers’ Market
    • • The Big Art Fair
  • 🟠 TASTER SESSIONS
  • 🟠 LITERARY EVENTS
    • • Author Reading
    • • Poetry Live
  • 🟠 WALKS & TOURS
  • 🟠 KIDS & FAMILIES
    • • Graffiti Art
    • • Pixel Art
    • • Kite Painting
    • • Dance Tasters
    • • All Family Activities
  • 🟠 PHOTO COMP
  • 🟠 MUSIC FESTIVAL
    • • Live Music Schedule
  • 🟠 ABOUT ARTPORT
    • About ArtPort
    • ART IN THE COMMUNITY
    • MUSIC @ ARTPORT
WELCOME TO ARTPORT
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THE ART OF MOTHERHOOD
If follow us on Instagram, you may have seen our montage of works that depict the many complex states of motherhood, many made by artist mothers. (To see who we featured, scroll down to the gallery and click on individual images to enlarge). If we’ve inspired you to explore the theme in a bit more depth, here are a few links to get you started:
FURTHER READING 
​Book: The Story of Art Without Men, by Katy Hessel
BOOK REVIEW

​The Procreate Project (PCP) Living Archive 
This archive is a live archive of art practitioners who are mothers or care givers.
EXPLORE THE ARCHIVE

​Article: How Women Artists are Shaping the Way We See Motherhood, by Salomé Gómez-Upegui
READ ARTICLE

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Zenib Sedira, Mother, Daughter, and I (2003)
‘Mother and Child (Nancy and Olivia)’, Alice Neel, 1967
March Avery, Bedtime Story (1989)
‘Freedom of Movement’, Mellony Taper, 2022
Elizabeth Catlett Danys y Liethis, 2005
The Music Lesson, Frederick Leighton
Mary Cassatt, Breakfast in Bed (1897)
‘Gabrielle et Jean’, Renoir, 1895
‘Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1’, James Whistler, 1871
‘On the beach’, Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida
Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Woman and daughter with makeup) (1990)
Camille Henrot, Systems of attachment series
‘Confinement’, Mellony Taper, 2023
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California by Dorothea Lange, 1936
Norah Nielsen Gray - mother and child, 1920s
‘Maman’, Louise Bourgeois, 1999
Amy Sherald, Mother and Child (2016)
Mother & Child, Mary Cassatt
Madonna Litta, Leonardo da Vinci
‘Madonna and Child’, Mellony Taper, 2023

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