Hettie Judah

Hettie Judah is chief art critic on the British daily paper The i, a regular contributor to The Guardian’s arts pages, and a columnist for Apollo magazine. She writes for Frieze, Art Quarterly, Art Monthly, ArtReview  and is a contributing editor to The Plant magazine.

Following publication of her 2020 study on the impact of motherhood on artists’ careers, in 2021 she worked with a group of artists to draw up the manifesto How Not To Exclude Artist Parents, now available in 15 languages. She regularly talks about art and with artists for museum and gallery events, and has been a visiting lecturer for Goldsmiths University, London and Dauphine University, Paris.

A supporter of Arts Emergency she has mentored artists and students through a variety of different schemes. As a broadcaster she can be heard (and sometimes seen) on programmes including BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and Art That Made Us. Recent books include How Not To Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents) (Lund Humphries, September 2022) and Lapidarium (John Murray, London, October 2022/ Penguin, NY, March 2023). She is currently working on an exhibition and book on art and motherhood, among other things.

Sara Qaed

Sara Qaed is a UK-based artist from Bahrian. She is a mother, Illustrator, and Social Artist. Her works encompass various mediums including collaborative drawing, experimental animation, collage, wearable pieces, editorial cartoons and things in between. With a strong sense of social and political criticism, her works explore the language of drawing as a daily practice to document and archive news with a sense of black humor. Besides that, Sara uses her visual diaries and sketchbooks as a timeline surface to trace variety of things such as marks and conversations.

 

Through a continuous publication of cartoons and comics (@saraqaed), Sara collaborate with the viewers to discuss controversial topics in the Middle East such as corruption, power, occupation and human being. Her cartoons are displayed on multiple platforms such as, Al-Hudood Satirical News Website, Roman Cultural Magazine, and Tanween Media. In 2019, Sara won Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought for caricature and Mahmoud Khuhail award for Editorial Cartoons.

 

Besides that, Sara co-create social artworks with communities, classrooms, and care homes. She experiment with the possibilities of illustration, playfulness and human performance. Her latest work can be seen as part of Khaleejesque Magazine “DIY: Fear Print” (2019), New Writing North (2020) and “Windows” project with Art Diamond members in Gateshead (2021). Full album can be seen on (Instagram: @a__k__m__l)

Lady Kitt

Lady Kitt is an artist, mam, researcher & drag king proudly from, and based in, the North East of England. They call their work “Mess Making as Social Glue”- driven by insatiably curiosity about the social functions of stuff that gets called art. Kitt invites people to join them in creating objects, interactions & events. They are most interested in using collaborative creativity to (gently) dismantle and mischievously re-craft systems, structures and spaces they find discriminatory, obsolete or just quite dull.

Some of the things that have happened as part of Kitt’s work are: super-sized origami boat races, giant installations made from recycled paper, policy changes & the creation of an international feminist art magazine for, and by, children.  Kitt is a co-lead for Social Art Network (SAN),  trustee for Crafts Council UK, and a founding member of the award winning disabled artist led “art rabble” kin collective. 

Image description: Colour photo, interior. A white human with a shaved head and a big smile wears a headdress made of huge multi coloured flowers and a black long-sleeved shirt on which white and orange text reads “queer crip craft power”.

Sofia Barton

Sofia Barton is a Multidisciplinary artist who creates contemporary artwork which is influenced by nature and heritage. 

Her artwork is often comprised of bright colour palettes which are heavily inspired by her Punjabi culture and her home in the North East. Her style has been described as ‘New Antiquarian’ by the Association of Illustrators.

Clients have included Nexus, Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art and Pride UK. She also facilitates workshops and has worked with different schools across the North East.

Rosie Morris

Rosie Morris is an artist, Lecturer, Gallery Manager, Mum and, at times, long-distance carer, living and working in Newcastle. Her practice is interested in making time to reconnect our bodily and psychological relationship with an architectural space, through installations you walk into and around. In July 2020, in response to feeling, as a new Mum, a conflict of identity, feminism vs biology, lack of time, invisibility, guilt, extreme tiredness, depression and at times discrimination, Morris set about interviewing and sharing the stories of 10 artists, who are also mothers. Extracts of these stories are collated in the publication, Artist/Mum, together with a Forward by artist and researcher Martina Mullaney, and parallel text by artist Fiona Larkin.

(Image Credit: Colin Davidson)