Sara Hughes: Building Worlds Together
Art history has been ruthless to artist mothers. Their very presence has been cast as a problem, their children imagined as a greedy void behind the canvas, gobbling up their time and creativity. Motherhood was frequently treated as the ultimate interruption, something art could not afford. Even now, the meeting of art and parenting remains an underexplored terrain in contemporary practice. To confront this absence is to examine the possibility of caregiving as one of the most vital and generative forces shaping cultural life. Few artists reveal this more vividly than Aotearoa/New Zealand-based artist Sara Hughes, whose collaborative and site responsive projects engage deeply with the aesthetics, rhythms and politics of childhood.
