I am a visual artist, mother of two children aged 12 and 4, and co-founder of the MeWe arts collective. I intend to use this site to explore how my personal experiences as a mother informs my arts practice. To reflect upon the maternal in relationship to memory, loss, and mental health in particular depression and post natal depression. To investigate and explore emotional wellbeing through an expression of the mother-self in arts practice. As I approach the menopause, as my eldest son reaches his teenage years and as my youngest son begins school, I find myself shifting between the then and the now. I find myself re-looking and investigating my maternity.
Website: http://helensargeant.co.ukThis series of ink and pencil drawings was created through observing YouTube birth videos, referencing the birth records of my two sons and from personal memories of birth. These explorations represent the beginnings of a project to visually expose the … Continued
At home time my youngest son Naoise excitedly handed me an orange covered book with “me, mummy” written on the front that he wants to use to draw pictures of “me in my mummy’s tummy when she was pregnant and him … Continued
Pregnancy blur The maisonette, licked clean from top to bottom. Heady fuzz similar to that of the first day of a period. Thick grease on kitchen cupboard tops scrubbed away. Growing your lovely bones, elbows nudging stomach. Feet protruding and … Continued
Notes before sleeping 5th February 2014 between 10:07pm and 11:38pm Yellow batter, Yellow pram, Yellow blanket, Yellow wallpaper, Yellow skin, Yellow sunflower, Yellow sand, Naoise fast asleep, I am lying next to him in bed he will celebrate his fifth birthday at … Continued