Invisible Women: hitting you over the head with Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner

Less than half of the studies evaluating daycare-style interventions reported the impact of these interventions on the mother

Good morning GFPs! This week I am mainly considering what I would do in the event of…um, well I can’t really say what because that would spoil The Three-Body Problem for anyone who has not read the book or watched its new Netflix adaptation. Mainly I’d be regretting I didn’t pay more attention in physics probably.

In other news, GFP Hettie got in touch recently to let me know that an exhibition she’s been working on for the past four years has gone on tour in the UK. Called Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood it is about the invisibility of motherhood in art:

While the Madonna and Child is one of the great subjects of European art, we rarely see art about motherhood as a lived experience, in all its complexity. Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood addresses this blind spot in art history, asserting the artist mother as an important – if rarely visible – cultural figure.

Featuring the work of more than sixty modern and contemporary artists, this exhibition approaches motherhood as a creative enterprise, albeit one at times tempered by ambivalence, exhaustion or grief.

The exhibition is currently showing at the Arnolfini in Bristol, where it will be until the 26th May before moving on to the Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham (22 June - 29 September 2024); the Millennium Gallery, Sheffield (24 October 2024 - 19 January 2025) and the Dundee Contemporary Arts: February - June 2025 (exact dates TBC).

It also happens to tie in quite nicely with this week’s GDGOTW so let’s get to it.