{"product_id":"ccp-pe-z-010-ruth-o-leary-hidden-mothers","title":"PRE-ORDER: CCP.PE.Z.010 Ruth O’Leary – Hidden Mothers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Hidden Mothers' takes its title and conceptual framework from Victorian-era photography, where mothers were concealed beneath draped fabric to photograph their children. This historical practice of maternal erasure became my point of departure for a sustained critique of idealised maternal iconography throughout art history. Shot in photo-booths around Melbourne in this series I appropriate the Victorian veil and transform it through painted fabric that renders the maternal body hypervisible rather than concealed. My torso becomes a surface inscribed with witches, washing machines, ravens, and clocks - domestic objects and mythic figures that constitute the visual lexicon through which motherhood is culturally inscribed. These loaded symbols form a counter-iconography that speaks to the materiality of maternal experience: its embodied labour, its corporeal presence, its dialectic of creation and erasure. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e– Ruth O’Leary\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCCP.PE.ZINE is a collaborative publishing initiative from the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) and Perimeter Editions, dedicated to providing a platform for emerging photographic artists to exhibit their work in an accessible zine format. Each zine in the series – launched periodically in pairs – focuses on a single body of work by artists selected by the CCP.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRuth O'Leary is an artist based in Naarm, Australia. Her work explores maternal self-documentation – spanning gestation, birth, child-rearing, and aging – addressing art history’s systematic erasure of motherhood as lived experience. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Perimeter Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50910758109423,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/3927\/files\/hiddenmothers_cover_1000px.jpg?v=1790654881","url":"https:\/\/www.perimeterbooks.com\/products\/ccp-pe-z-010-ruth-o-leary-hidden-mothers","provider":"Perimeter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}