As Reframing the Muse opens at London Art Fair, the show’s curator Ruth Millington uncovers a new guard of contemporary women artists rejecting overly-romanticised views of motherhood and instead openly embracing the theme
Historically, motherhood has undoubtedly been perceived, by artists, dealers, critics and curators alike, as career suicide.
Offering viewers a far more authentic and expansive view of motherhood than their male counterparts, contemporary women artists are increasingly receiving recognition from commercial galleries, art fairs and museums. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Nikoleta Sekulovic is one such artist who, since becoming a mother herself, has been on a self-proclaimed “mission” to “portray the modern-day mother as a muse” through her paintings.
In contrast, the personal becomes political in the paintings of American artist Ashley January. It was her own traumatic pregnancy and the survival of her prematurely-born son that has informed January’s unfiltered paintings of Black mothers and small children.
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