{"id":375,"date":"2025-08-26T09:19:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/dbe-exhibitions\/?p=375"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:19:52","slug":"motherlode-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/dbe-exhibitions\/motherlode-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Motherlode Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Motherlode presents the evocative photographic works of seven Curtin University staff, students, and alumni, reimagining maternal themes in a contemporary context. Inspired by the family album, iconography of the mother in religious art and fairy tale maternal archetypes, these intimate images incorporate the abject and abstraction to explore the profound maternal bond with the child while addressing modern motherhood\u2019s challenges &#8211; societal expectations, identity tensions, work-life conflicts and the decision to mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These artists fuse mythical, sacred, and raw elements with abstract forms to illuminate the complex realities of maternal connection today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Exhibiting artists:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Claudia Caporn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Rebecca Dagnall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Kirsten Hudson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Davina Jogi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olive Lipscombe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Connie Petrillo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Toni Wilkinson<\/p>\n\n\n<section          class=\"block block--no-indent iframe \"\n         role=\"complementary\" aria-label=\"Iframe content\"\n         data-segment=\"all\">\n\n    \n<div class=\"block-heading\" data-segment=\"dom\">\n                                <h2 class=\"block-heading__title \" id=\"virtual-tour\">Virtual Tour<\/h2>\n            \n                        \n                        \n                            <\/div>\n\n            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/my.matterport.com\/show\/?m=Kb1TjKtzh7W\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"\n                style=\"width:100%; height:500px\"><\/iframe>\n    \n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motherlode presents the evocative photographic works of seven Curtin University staff, students, and alumni, reimagining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":67,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[68,8],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-67","tag-68","tag-exhibition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/dbe-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/dbe-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/dbe-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/dbe-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/dbe-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/dbe-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/dbe-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/dbe-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/dbe-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/dbe-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}