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The Mothers Project CIC is an archive of stories and photographs exhibiting real experiences of motherhood. It has been running for 10 years and is produced by photographer Rebecca Lupton.
During the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020 it became apparent that parents, and mothers in particular, were facing unique and unfamiliar challenges.
With lockdown restrictions in place, and unable to run ‘The Mothers’ in its previous form, the project temporarily adapted. Running as a participatory art project where mothers were encouraged to document their experiences of motherhood, in lockdown, from their own homes.
The Mothers Project ran artist talks, set mini-projects, held one-to-one mentoring sessions, and offered support and guidance the women involved in the project. Participants took on the role of ‘artist/mother’ and spent the next 6 months gathering images, words and artworks that illustrate their time in lockdown.
You can view the work in progress from the socially-engaged, participatory project here – an online sketchbook – which shows their creative explorations as they experienced life in lockdown.
After the socially-engaged art project ended, mothers from all over the world were invited to contribute to this archive of experiences. Through social media women tagged they their contributions #motherslifeinlockdown. This archive still continues to grow.
An archive recording what it was like to be a mother in lockdown, from a range of mothers; artist/mothers, poets, writers and particpants from the socially-engaged project, can be viewed in the archives in the main menu. Here, here and here