INSTALLATION · PERFORMANCE · EXHIBITION
The Self-Motherhood Project
I am a woman in my early forties who keeps choosing my mental health, while raising three children and staying active in the art world and at school. I keep finding myself talking about how hard the everyday can be, yet there is rarely room to talk about our mental wellbeing. This is an invitation: to sit privately with your own, and just as importantly, to hold it together, as a community.
WHY THIS SERIES EXISTS
The scale behind the silence.
of the household mental load is carried by mothers
of new mothers worldwide experience a mental disorder
women are outside the workforce because of unpaid care
women in Norway experience depressive symptoms around pregnancy and birth
This work stands alongside a wider movement for maternal mental health, like the Maternal Mental Health Alliance’s This is Also Motherhood. The Self-Motherhood Project began on World Mental Health Day 2025, and it is only the beginning. There is more to come.
The average is a 49-year-old woman who works outside the home and gives twenty hours a week of unpaid care, often to her own mother.
FROM THE EXHIBITIONS
Mental health awareness, made tangible.
THE FILM
In my own words.
I tell the story of the project in my own words. In 2026 it grows into a documentary, built on footage from the first edition, made alongside Make Mothers Matter, Landsforeningen 1001 dager and Historisk Morskap, with art historian Catherine McCormack as strategic mentor.
THE EDITIONS · EVERY YEAR ON 10 OCTOBER
One date. A growing series.
SUPPORT · THE MATRON CIRCLE
Help this project grow.
The Matron Circle is a small circle of supporters who keep the Self-Motherhood Project moving, the documentary, the exhibitions and the quiet work between them. Every matron receives an original artwork each year, and my gratitude all year round.
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