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The Caregiving collection gathers ephemera offering insight into artistic practices balancing caretaking and art around birth, pregnancies, sex, and loss. The aim is to examine experiences around caring for another person and all the experiences that surround it.

The collection aims to rethink creative life alongside interruption, exhaustion, and joy that comes from caring for the sick, young, and dying. In Caregiving we look at experiences of ambivalence and contradiction, joyousness and fulfillment, and where disenchantment and vulnerability mingle with exquisiteness, tenderness, and connection with new life and death.

Materials in the collection include breastfeeding schedules and studio time calendars, diaries, reference books, IVF and abortion paperwork, at-home remedies, cochineal dyed fabrics, medical bills with drawings, photographs of mapping the body, books made from stitches and breastmilk ink, ceramic tests, death care contracts, funeral flyers, oral histories from hospice care, artist estate documents, wills, and notes.

Drew and Mary Kelly

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