Leyden Gallery, E1 - Platform 1 Gallery Artists Takeover 'Inside-Out'

Artwives Takeover at Leyden Gallery E1
'Inside-Out' 

Join us on Saturday 30th June 6.30-9.30pm for an night of Performance and inter-art-action. 
belly dancing, biscuit eating, artiness of many dimensions with guests; 
Sharon Reeves | Christina Vasileiou | Susan B Merrick | Touati-Evans | Katy Howe | Ema Mano Epps | Jenny Cahill | Laura Fooks | Raquel Macartney

Mothering (smothering) it's your most important role! It stretches you in all directions…. It pulls you inside out. Motherhood is often based on ambivalent feelings, happiness, depression, overwhelming pressure and exhaustion, intense love, mind-numbing boredom. Becoming a mother can leave a woman with ambivalent feelings towards motherhood as she is forced to come to terms with complex emotions very quickly, often in extreme circumstances, and often in isolation. 

Desperate Artwives with Leyden Gallery will continuously look to reflect upon and tease out these important and frequently dismissed conversations, giving voice to these concerns with a feminist commitment.

We are peddled a perfect, unattainable image of motherhood, in advertising and media of all descriptions, but it is common to feel angry, sad, overwhelmed, insecure, and more, and we find ourselves questioning whether we should be feeling these emotions at all. The most powerful proponent of these unrealistic expectations is organised religion, forming the backbone of most cultures worldwide and giving us the “Idealised Mother”. No one can live up to it, but we all continue to try... and if we don’t, or when the realities of being a mother leave us with feelings of guilt, can this guilt be used constructively? Is it possible to love your children but hate the auspice of motherhood?

Inside-Out refers to the internal experience and conflict. Desperate Artwives artists will pull apart these experiences of internal conflict and will articulate them, with courage, through performance art and live action.

Desparate Artwives - DAW Open Call to Mother Artists June Workshops with Dagmara Bilon, Teresa Albor and Katy Howe

ALL WORKS CREATED IN THE WORKSHOPS ARE PERFORMED AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC on Saturday 23rd OF JUNE 3.30-7.30pm

WORKSHOPS SOLD OUT.

https://www.eventbrite.com/o/desperate-artwives-16861096223?s=83470493

Wandsworth Art Fringe 2018 Intoon collaboration with choreographer Kuan Yu Chen, Yanaelle Thiran and Inari Hulkkonen

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Wandsworth Art Fringe 2018

Wandsworth Art Fringe 2018

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OPEN CALL: Dance Auditions on 25th March 2018

Intoon Dance | Kuan-Yu Chen are looking for two dance artists for the site-specific production premier in Wandsworth Arts Fringe Festival. To apply and find out further details please use the link below. Deadline for applications is 12th March 2018

http://dancingopportunities.com/audition-notice-intoon-dance-kuan-yu-chen/

March to September Programme 2018

PERCEPTION, COLOUR, COMPOSITION & STYLE in PHOTOGRAPHY AS COMMUNICATION.

The Gratitude Show is now closed. For studio visit - including viewing some of the Gratitude paintings, commission and artwork purchase please contact Ema Mano Epps .

Intuitive Workshop. Sunday 5th of Nov.

The Cave, Pimlico 5-8th of October 11am-5pm