Caroline Walker features in 'MAMA'
Caroline Walker features in the group exhibition MAMA: From Mary to Merkel, an examination into what it means to have, become or be a mother. The show focuses on the universal language of motherhood and its reflection in art, culture and everyday life.
Walker's painting Roundmoor Drive traces the daily life of her sister-in-law Lisa as she becomes a mother. Whilst this composition conveys a voyeuristic element, Walker belongs to a tradition of female artists who show the world differently from the masculinised position of eroticised peeping that has historically dominated paintings of women.
In MAMA: From Mary to Merkel, connections between the works reveal themes, but also the range of depictions of mothers, which are continuously being appropriated, reinterpreted, disputed and celebrated.
The exhibition is curated by Linda Conze, Westrey Page and Anna Christina Schütz.
