ABSTRACT
This chapter looks into the politics of support for artists/mothers in India across two generations and its impact on their role performances. These roles include art-making, mothering, domestic responsibilities, performances of expected intimate partner roles from their partners, and any additional roles which have been professionally, socially, or culturally ordained onto them. The chapter's enquiries are directed towards the relationship between the support systems available to mother artists and the continuation/discontinuation/inconsistency in their performance of the acts in everyday life. The chapter develops inter-generational conversations between two women artists from the same family, learning about mother artists’ role performance and support within the context of the social, cultural, religious, and economic fabric of India, and proposes new ideas about how support systems could be further developed within the Indian context.
