An exhibition responding to the lived experience of motherhood is on at The Birley in Preston city centre.

LULL brings together artist mothers Caitlin Akers, Sarah Blaszczok, Linda Hemmersbach, Sophie Lee and Lauren Steeper to explore the shared goal of sustaining an art practice while raising young children.

Through accepting interruption, working in new media and making peace with the unfinished, each artist has found ways to create in the lulls between the demands of caregiving.

Time and space are central to the work; time to imagine, space to lay down paper or print, time to finish a thought or a conversation.

One of the artists, Caitlin Akers, said: “Through LULL, we aim to ignite a dialogue by exploring the advantages of motherhood for artists.

“We seek to affirm the artist mother as a vital cultural figure and create a space where mothering, caring, and nurturing are recognised as the complex, multidimensional experiences they truly are.

“Where women are in direct, daily contact with ‘life, death, beauty, growth, and corruption’ – universal themes that profoundly shape and enrich the work of the artist mother.”

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LULL at The Birley is curated by Zoe Watson and further develops ideas presented at Paradise Works in Manchester last year.

The exhibition opened in Preston in late April, and continues on Thursday 8, Friday 9 and Saturday 10 May from 11am to 4pm.

For more information, visit The Birley website.

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