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Zena Blackwell explores the anxieties of motherhood in a new exhibition at Cardiff MADE<\/h2>\n

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Cardiff-based artist Zena Blackwell, winner of the 2017 MADE Summer Art Prize opens a new exhibition at the Cardiff MADE gallery<\/a>\u00a0this Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Zena\u2019s first solo exhibition <\/span>Seen Not Heard,<\/span><\/i>\u00a0her oil paintings explores what it means to be a mother, drawing inspiration from her own role as a parent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her paintings portray the innocence of childhood through the mother\u2019s eye. <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet this innocence is not romanticised. Zena\u2019s paintings create a heightened reality in which the vulnerability of the child is at odds with a threatening adult world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI love the beautiful way in which they are completely unselfconscious,\u201d said Zena.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe experience of adulthood informs our interpretation of a scene. <\/span>Something totally innocent can connote something sinister or malevolent. Sometimes this manifests quite unconsciously.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Zena\u2019s work delves into the uncanny through her bold contrast of bright colours and flattened textures with realistic forms to express the dreamlike world of the parent. <\/span><\/p>\n

The anxiety and sleep deprivation go hand in hand with the joy and love which the role brings.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Images provided by Zena Blackwell<\/p><\/div>\n

Gallery co-director and fellow artist Zoe Gingell said: \u201cI was delighted because they\u2019re amazing, powerful paintings.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cZena\u2019s work stood out for me as somebody who\u2019s making work about the subject of parenthood, which is unusual in itself to see that represented in painting. <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not an area that\u2019s not particularly shown and there\u2019s a mass of work out there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Alongside the exhibition, Zena Blackwell will also talk in the MADE gallery on the 17 November,<\/span>\u00a0alongside fellow artists, academics and curators as part of the\u00a0day-long symposium Maternal Attitude.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The symposium will explore how parent-artists make work, and their potential to transform the art world. Tickets<\/a> are currently available from Eventbrite.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2018Seen Not Heard\u2019 is open at the Cardiff MADE gallery from the 27 October until the 23 November.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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