Projects & Activity
Redesigning Care with Emma Quin
Temple Bar Gallery & Studios | August 2025
A workshop exploring female health, collective care, and alternative support systems. Drawing on ideas from Matriarchal Design Futures, participants engaged in exercises that centred nourishment, attunement, and shared responsibility. Through conversation and collaboration, we reflected on how artists can sustain themselves and one another, imagining new models of care and creative community. Supported by Cavan Arts Office.
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Birth Rites Collection Bursary
University of Kent | July 2025
Mothering Spaces was selected to attend the Birth Rites Collection Summer School, exploring the intersection of art, birth, and women’s health. The experience sparked new ideas about how art can shape and support spaces for care and wellbeing, while highlighting the urgent need for more listening and recognition of women’s voices within medical and social contexts.
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Maybe I’m Being Dramatic by Lauren Hamilton
GalleryX, Dublin | April 2024
Mothering Spaces commissioned its first exhibition, Maybe I’m Being Dramatic by artist Lauren Hamilton, presented at GalleryX in Dublin and supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. The exhibition explored identity, emotional expression, and the maternal body through performative and sculptural practice.
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Online Artist Initiative (2023–2024)
Mothering Spaces hosted a monthly online feature where artists shared their work via Instagram. The initiative offered a digital platform for artists to present current projects, works in progress, and research areas related to themes of maternity, women’s health, female anatomy, reproductive experiences, and social issues.
Participating artists included:
Ana Maisonave (Madrid), Malin Westermann (Norway), Jennifer Trouton (Northern Ireland), Emma O’Brien (Ireland), Jill Skulina (Scotland), Shweta Bist (USA), Katherine Nolan (Ireland), and Jialin Long (Ireland).
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Ongoing Research & Development
Mothering Spaces continues to expand its network, connecting over 80 artists interested in collaborating on projects that intersect art, care, and health. Future programming will include exhibitions, workshops, and opportunities for dialogue between artists and health researchers. Express your interest.
