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Coming soon 🎉 Our major new exhibition - Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood - opens at the Millennium Gallery next week🎉 This new exhibition from Hayward Gallery, curated by writer and critic Hettie Judah, plunges into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the feminist avant-garde to the present day. ✨ Acts of Creation asserts the artist mother as an important – if rarely visible – cultural figure through painting, photography, sculpture, sound and film by more than sixty modern and contemporary artists, including Bobby Baker, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Susan Hiller, Chantal Joffe, Claudette Johnson and Paula Rego. 👊 Images: Caroline Walker, Bottles and Pumps, 2022, Courtesy the artist Hermione Wiltshire, Nicola Preparing for Birth, 2008, Courtesy the artist Janine Antoni, 2038, 2000 © Janine Antoni; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York VALIE EXPORT, Die Geburtenmadonna, 1976 © VALIE EXPORT / Bildrecht, Wien 2023 Paula Rego, Untitled 2, 1999, Courtesy Cristea Roberts Gallery Content warning - Artworks in this exhibition address important issues surrounding women’s health and wellbeing, including nudity, childbirth, (in)fertility, miscarriage, abortion, loss, domestic abuse, adoption, sterilisation and obstetric violence. Find out more and plan your visit here: https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/acts-of-creation-on-art-and-motherhood/