Art show puts mums in the frame on Mother's Day

Nalina Eggert

BBC News NI

10 March 2024

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When the Vault artists' collective in Belfast issued a call-out for art on the theme of 'mother', they had more than 70 responses
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They have now placed them all together in a Mother's Day exhibition in central Belfast
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Maybe it's not a surprise the theme was so popular, as curator Laura Nelson says, "everybody has a mother". Her contribution, seen here, is about her relationship with her own mum. Laura's mum's ashes make up part of the People's Pyramid in Liverpool
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Womb Experience, by Niamh Scullion, invites the viewer to sit inside a red space with soothing sounds under a heated blanket
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Glass blower Helen Hancock's contribution is made with human breast milk
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Deborah Edgar's So I Never Went examines the tension between nurturing a family and pursuing your own identity
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Many of the pieces explore the artists' changing relationships with their mothers as they age
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By Rob Hilken, this piece takes a humorous and thought-provoking look at the mother-child relationship

Mother continues at Marlborough House in Belfast until Wednesday 13 March.

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