Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, featuring Chantal Joffe, Wangechi Mutu, Celia Paul and Paula Rego, travels to Dundee Contemporary Arts

Hayward Gallery Touring’s major group exhibition explores lived experience of motherhood through over 100 artworks. 

★★★★★ Reviewing the exhibition in The Observer, Laura Cumming writes, ‘Acts of Creation is riveting from first to last, an exceptional (and touring) anthology of contemporary artworks to startle, move and awe, all one hundred and more plunging deep into motherhood.’ 

9 March–26 May 2024
Arnolfini, Bristol

22 June–29 September 2024
Midlands Art Centre (MAC), Birmingham

24 October 2024–19 January 2025
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

19 April–13 July 2025
Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), Dundee

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Image: Chantal Joffe, Self-Portrait with Esme in a Striped Nightie, 2017
Oil on board
213 x 152 cm
83 7/8 x 59 7/8 in
© Chantal Joffe
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

April 19 2025