Hannah Perry: Manual Labour

British artist Hannah Perry presents a major new commission that considers motherhood, labour and class.

BALTIC’s level 4 gallery welcomes the large scale installation which comprises film, scuplture, printmaking and sound.

Mediated through the artist’s own experience, the exhibition looks at the process of becoming a mother and its ‘creative and destructive power’.

Perry says: “I came to the realisation that I had a deep-rooted, unconscious, anti-feminist view of the role of a mother that is excruciatingly patriarchal. As though the value of a mother’s labour is somehow less than that of one’s success in the professional, male-dominated world.”

More information from BALTIC’s website

Image: Hannah Perry, Manual Labour, production still, 2024. Image courtesy the artist. © Hannah Perry.