gretchen geraets

Gretchen Geraets // Mother lode (2023)

Southwark Park Galleries // Annual Open 2023 // 11 NOVEMBER–9 DECEMBER 2023  

still from 'Mother lode' first sketch / third utterance, ten minute video, screened as part of the Maternal Bodies Symposium, 15 June 2023

'Mother lode' [third utter]

I look forward to presenting some work-in-progress from my 'Mother lode' project at the Maternal Bodies Interdisciplinary Symposium, alongside some fantastic contributors, papers and interdisciplinary works. Held at Birmingham University, 15 June 2023,

'WORK', 2022.

WORK. Productivity. Labour. Time. Kitchen = Womb.

I have been thinking through the maternal body, its correlation to rooms in the home, and these as sites of production. Speculatively, I map the kitchen with the womb, both sites of productive and reproductive potential. Some of the colour used in this image is inspired by my mother’s birth stories and tales of psychedelic bodily fluids.

Hanging out to dry (night-shift), 2022

Billboard image

Night-shift (hanging out to dry), 2022

'waiting time', 2022.

My son sleeps. I can hear him breathing. His breath soothes me.

Rhythm catches me. I begin thinking. I am thinking of waiting. Post covid, the world’s relationship to waiting has changed. The NHS, the cooperation, my phone company, the shopkeeper, the nurse – demand I wait. I phone. I am met with a recorded greeting. The recorded message informs me, as it did yesterday, and will tomorrow, due to covid, staff shortages, I must wait. ‘Waiting time is currently 44 minutes….’

Pleasures and Dangers (redacted), 2004/2019/2022  Windshield-cover, bronze, inkjet-print on plain-paper, apple-cores, make-up, 197 (w) x 71 (d) x 17.5 (h) cm

studioUS  Work by artists connected with 3 creative organisations: originalprojects; (Great Yarmouth) OUTPOST Studios  (Norwich) The Art Station (Saxmundham) OPENING EVENT: Saturday 15 May, 12 - 4pm studioUS is an exhibition as survey and interrogation of some of the functions, activities and outputs of artists’ studios and their networks. Artists’ studios provide vital space for production, presentation, connection and exchange, activities that are often hidden from public view. The function of art schools as studio spaces is also an element of the exhibition, with a dedicated space provided for students from Norwich University of the Arts to use as dynamic active space for the production, discussion and presentation of work for the duration of the exhibition. Students from East Coast College and University of Suffolk will also be presenting a photography exhibition during the show.

A programme of associated events will take place events across venues; lectures, talks, screenings, socials etc and will be shaped and informed during the installation in response to participants' inclusions, ideas and concerns PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth 15 May & 24 July 2022 

self, 2018

killer In me Is killer In you, MDF, pine, plaster, velvet, wood fuller, paint, glue, casters, 132 x 73 x 61cm