Brought to you by The Institute for Social Justice and The York Centre for Writing, York St John University.
In the history of Western art and literature parenthood has been viewed as a barrier to creative, intellectual activity. Parental experience can transform the creative practitioner both in terms of their personal identity and their creative practice. This one day symposium explored how parental experience can be an impetus to art and writing, and rearticulated through them. Participants were invited to engage with an exhibition of animation, fine art and photography and attend a series of talks and workshops.
Carolyn Jess-Cooke is a novelist, poet, editor and Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. She convenes the prestigious MLitt Creative Writing and researches ways that creative writing can help with trauma and mental health. Throughout 2013-18 she directed the Writing Motherhood project, which explored the impact of motherhood on women’s writing. She is also the founder and director of the Stay-at-Home! Literary Festival, which is dedicated to providing people with accessible, inclusive, and eco-friendly ways to access literature. carolynjesscooke.com
Vanessa Corby is the Professor Theory, History and Practice of Art at York St John University. Vanessa trained as a painter in the north-east of England in the early 1990s before undertaking an MA and Ph.D. in the feminist theory, history, and criticism of art at the University of Leeds. Her work on modern and contemporary art argues that the material operations of practice not only structure the viewer’s experience but also present a powerful lens that reveals new insights into the formation and effects of art historical discourse. Consequently, her research has become dedicated to the articulation of the lived, interstitial experiences of class, gender, and ethnicity made manifest in art but hitherto marginalised by Western culture and thought. She has written on the representation of maternity and maternal experience in the work of others; including the cultural representation and lived experience of termination (2007), the creative negotiation of grief following miscarriage (2019), the construction of professional identity for painters and the impact of maternity on studio practice (2021). She has also written a short poem on childbirth experience for inertia, an artist’s book that accompanied the photographic project of the same name by Christina Kolaiti (2021).
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