04 July 2024, The Tablet

The art of birth


The art of birth

Leni Dothan’s Sleeping Madonna, 2011: suffering with post-natal depression, she wanted to create a new iconography
photo: Tegen Kimbley

 
How does motherhood impact on creativity – and how true have artists of the past been to the reality of parenting? Laura Gascoigne sees a show that probes these questions and more
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