News and updates!
Cradle exhibition & upcoming new Substack
Dear friends and followers,
Just a quick and very overdue update from me! I haven’t sent out an email newsletter in a couple of years now, but I thought now might be a good moment. Read on for some bits of news around my upcoming exhibition Cradle and the newsletter I will be launching soon!
Cradle
Please do join me for the opening of Cradle, a group exhibition exploring maternal ecologies at a new project space, 28 Shacklewell Lane.
20 June – 14 July 2024
PV 20 June, 6pm – 9pm
28 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8
Anne Berg, Annabel Emson, Camilla Emson, Marenka Gabeler, Clementine Keith-Roach, Hannah Rowan
Curated by Anna Souter
Cradle positions the maternal body as a site for exploring ecologies of care, resilience, and healing. Bringing together six artists working across a variety of media, the exhibition draws out themes of vessels, containment, and cradling, asking questions about how we hold our children in physical and psychological ways even as our bodies are simultaneously porous containers for our own pasts, emotions, and traumas. The exhibition attempts to give equal weight to frequently trivialised notions such as familial love and the everyday labour of raising children, as well as to formal concerns regarding the boundaries between figuration and abstraction and the properties of artistic materials. Cradle further considers motherhood as a route for engaging with the multivalence of existence within an environment, centring the maternal gaze as a method of re-examining the self as something leaky and unbounded, vibrantly emerging within the complex interconnected webs of our ecosystems.
Coming soon…
I will soon be launching my new email newsletter dedicated to art & ecology through Substack. The newsletter will be dedicated to the intersections between art and ecology, exploring a mycelial web of contemporary art practice, environmental thought, and interspecies relationships. Expect original and exclusive interviews, studio visits, exhibition reviews, essays, and the occasional piece of short fiction, through an intersectional ecofeminist lens.
As you’re already on my mailing list, you will start to receive posts automatically, but feel free to unsubscribe at any time! For now, all posts will be free, but in the future I plan to introduce a paid tier to make it sustainable. I’d love to hear feedback about topics you’d like me to cover, useful resources, or whether you’d be happy to upgrade to the paid tier in future.
If you’ve got this far, thank you so much for reading!
All the best,
Anna