ABSTRACT
This chapter is a discussion, between artists Eve Dent and Zoë Gingell, of current themes in their work from the perspective of the mid-point within a maternal life-cycle. Topics include the challenges and conditions of caring and facing mortality through the prism of family, and how the post-fertile experience and identity can be expressed within their practice as artists. Throughout the conversation, they re-evaluate sexual currency and where it sits through ageing, particularly in relation to their teenage children preparing their images to meet the world. They discuss shifts in roles and relationships within the context of caring over time; from nursing babies to elderly mothers and the care that is held in the space between generations. The body and the home are considered as the materials of their artwork and life, within a vital process of inter-relation, where they now approach loss and the mortal traces of existence as active elements with which one can mark one's being across time within a family.
