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Sun 11am–4pm
***The Ruskin Collection will be closed for redisplay from Sun 1 Dec and reopen on Sat 21 Dec 2024***
Millennium Gallery
Arundel Gate
Sheffield
S1 2PP
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Guardian
While the Madonna and Child is one of the great subjects of European art, we rarely see art about motherhood as a lived experience, in all its complexity. Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood will address this blind spot in art history, asserting the artist mother as an important – if rarely visible – cultural figure.
The exhibition approaches motherhood as a creative enterprise, one at times tempered by ambivalence, exhaustion or grief. Addressing diverse experiences of motherhood, the displays span themes of creation, caregiving and loss. The heart of the exhibition is a series of revelatory self-portraits – a celebration of the artist as mother.
Acts of Creation presents painting, photography, sculpture, sound and film by more than sixty modern and contemporary artists, including Bobby Baker, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Susan Hiller, Chantal Joffe, Claudette Johnson and Paula Rego.
Read the Guardian review here
Guidance for visitors:
Artworks in this exhibition address important issues surrounding women’s health and wellbeing, including nudity, childbirth, (in)fertility, miscarriage, abortion, loss, domestic abuse, adoption, sterilisation and obstetric violence.
Opening Times
Tue–Sat 10am–5pm
Sun 11am–4pm
***The Ruskin Collection will be closed for redisplay from Sun 1 Dec and reopen on Sat 21 Dec 2024***
Millennium Gallery
Arundel Gate
Sheffield
S1 2PP
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