About the Artist: Saskia Saunders creates minimal constructed artworks, from domestic materials such as parchment paper, string and household linens. These are sensitively woven, wrapped and manipulated, highlighting their simple, functional aesthetic and inherent tactile qualities. Saunders’ work is strongly linked to a sense of place, the home. Her art is an invitation to experience a calmContinue reading “M.A.M.A. Issue 29: Weaving the Past with the Present: Saskia Saunders & Martha Joy Rose”
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M.A.M.A. Issue 28: Left Overs – no more with Rajaa Paixão and Oz with Gwen North Reiss
Statement: Rajaa Paixão’s art practice tackles a conceptual and multidisciplinary approach, mainly encompassing sculpture and painting, turned into assemblages. Having an overly dreamy and idealist nature, her thoughts tend to be too erratic and therefore overlapping, resulting in the abstraction and blurry perception of events, contrasted with the urge to reorder physical objects neatly, andContinue reading “M.A.M.A. Issue 28: Left Overs – no more with Rajaa Paixão and Oz with Gwen North Reiss”
M.A.M.A. – The Riddle, The Interior Vacation, and the Mother House [LINK]
The Riddle (2017) This stop-motion animation, made from collaged monoprints The work focusses on the loss of self-identity in early motherhood. What is left of a person’s personality once the numerous responsibilities and anxieties are taken on. Anna Fennel Hughes is a freelance artist creating monoprints that are often used to form illustrations, animations andContinue reading “M.A.M.A. – The Riddle, The Interior Vacation, and the Mother House [LINK]”
MAMA Issue n. 18 with Alex March – Exploring Womanhood [Link]
Artist: Alex March My work changed focus after the birth of my daughter nearly two years ago, these works are all recent and deal with my concerns about womanhood. “I am a London based artist originally from the North of England working with drawing, photography, painting and film to produce works which explore memory, representationContinue reading “MAMA Issue n. 18 with Alex March – Exploring Womanhood [Link]”