LULL group show at Paradise Works, Salford, November 2024

In a bit of a lull. A lull is a soft thing.

As part of Paradise Works Open Studios 2024, Sarah Blaszczok and Lauren Steeper invited fellow artists - and mothers - Caitlin Akers, Linda Hemmersbach and Sophie Lee to show work alongside them in LULL.

The exhibition responded directly and inadvertently to our experience of motherhood, and a shared goal of sustaining an art practice while raising young children.

Through accepting interruption, working in new media and making peace with the unfinished, each of us has found ways to create in the lulls between the demands of caregiving. Limitation of time is at play here, as well as space. The space to imagine, to lay down paper or print, the space to finish a thought or a conversation.

In LULL we began a new conversation by placing our work next to one another’s. Initiating a dialogue between the works and contributing to the current conversation about the importance of the artist mother as a cultural figure.

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