Motherhood Collection

Collection of articles relating to the representation of motherhood in women's art. Information about individual artists and exhibitions. Folders of information separated into categories: mothers and children; pregnancy and birth; birth in art; being mother and child; motherhood and female creativity and motherhood. The collection can be used as a direction to further information held in the Women's Art Library. Artists include: Therese Gilder, Ruth Calland and Susie Lowenstein.

The Women's Art Library (also known as MAKE) was originally set up as the Women Artists slide Library in London in the late 1970s. This initiative from feminist artists' developed into an arts organisation publishing catalogues, books and a magazine from 1983-2002. During this time women artists deposited unique documentation on their work and created personal files that functioned together as an alternative public space. Thousands of artists from around the world are represented in some form in this collection. In 2004 the collection became part of Goldsmiths Library Special Collections. At Goldsmiths The Women's Art Library (MAKE) continued to collect slides, artist statements, exhibition ephemera, catalogues, and press material in addition to audio and videotapes, photographs and CD-Roms. As at 2009 they continued to welcome donations from women artists to help develop this collection.

Access for visitors is by appointment only.

List available at the Library

Description by Althea Greenan, MAKE 2002. Submitted to the Archives Hub as part of Genesis 2009 Project.