JP Howard Night stand Mama buried herself in liquor Love kept her locked in that room Secrets are like insides of coffins We hide everything in plain view Everybody knew Mama had a secret lover, Tucked under her night stand Mama kissed his framed photo each night Before she tucked me in sugar hill, a love note, in pieces sugar hill you still in my bloodline when the world gets too crazy, convent avenue call my name she say, Juliet come play hopscotch on the block baby girl sugar hill, i still love you, even though mama almost…
Author: Mom Egg Review
Emily Hall is a composer; much of her music is formed from close creative relationships with singers and writers, finding her own ways of using technology and live performance Commissioned by many ensembles and orchestras including the London Sinfonietta, LSO, BBCNOW, the Brodsky Quartet, Opera North, LCO, and Hungarian Radio Choir and broadcast frequently on BBC Radio. Much to her surprise, Emily has written four operas. Emily Hall is a member of Bedroom Community, the Icelandic record label. Emily Hall has won many awards for her music including the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, the genesis Opera Prize and…
Uta Baldauf is a bilingual dyslexic, multi disciplinary artist, she performance poetry and sings in the band Square Bomb. She studied in Dartington Collage of Arts and used to have a late nigh radio show. Her work hovers between play, words, the unknown and vulnerability.
Sharon Bennett is a socially engaged artist. Working collaboratively with community groups, artists or family and friends she blurs the boundaries between the traditional positions of artist, artwork and audience. Bennett is co-founder of the participatory art project Croshare and a founding member of The Women’s Art Activation System (WAAS).
Katharina Child – My name is Kath Child. I’m a Danish maker in textiles. I run a event space called Atelier (atelier stroud.com) in Stroud. I’m part of a artist group WAAS (women’s art activation system) together with Sarah Dixon among others. I’m interested in working with arts and crafts that interact with community and political issues.
Helena Alipaz is a full time mother, full time day dreamer of missed artistic explorations/ realised, under-valued domestic beauties. A multi-instrumentalist, instrument maker, drawer, and advisor and manager of live acts. The piece produced, reflects the stream of consciousness inner dialogue and rushed sensations presented as result of time contraints demanded from the domestic mothering of four children whilst attempting to produce art. In this instance, noise is both the vocation and the prison.
Lynda Sterling is a visual artist who lives and works in Old Trafford, Manchester. She is a mother to four children and creates work inspired by her everyday life, tasks and responsibilities. Her #thingstodobirds Mother Bunting encapsulated the life of a mother artist where alongside the domestic are times of creativity, highlighting the importance and value of both.
Luana Venuti is an Italian born Artist based in London, England. Although she is self-taught, she is specialised in Manga Art and Portraiture. Her credits include the exhibition “A feminist space is…” at the Feminist Library (in London), her participation in the “Helsinki Comics Festival” (in Finland, under the Feminist Library group), the “Safari Festival” (in Shoreditch, London), the “Feminist Library Winter Fayre” and the “Mother Bunting” event in Stroud (in England).
Felice Aull’s poetry collection, Mandatory Evacuation Zone, was published in July. Several poems originally published in Mom Egg Review are included. Poet Jean Marie Beaumont comments, “Felice Aull is always attuned to the histories and traumas that haunt the present locale, rendering each ‘place of flux and loss’ with careful observation and clear-eyed emotional candor.” See also www.feliceaull.com
June 2017 SUMMER In This Issue GALLERY: GUARDIAN: What is your superpower? CRAFT: Women Writers, Mothers And Friendships: How We Sustain Each Other POETRY: The Mother Dispossessed GALLERY: GUARDIAN: What is your superpower? Curator Ana Silva “… Women warriors and female heroes are emblazoned on our t-shirts, waving in our protest banners, and held in our hearts. Whether they are ancient goddesses, national politicians, international activists, or our mothers, daughters, sisters or partners, we are delighting in their power. This month we highlight work from visual artists that delves into the vitality, endurance, and fire of female guardianship, that…