Hettie Judah will be discussing research she collated for the Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood which opened at the Arnolfini in Bristol on 9 March 2024, toured to four major venues in the UK and is now traveling to VISUAL in Carlow, Ireland, in September 2025. The standalone book is published by Thames & Hudson.

Hettie Judah is a writer and curator. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Frieze and The Times Literary Supplement, and she writes a monthly column for Apollo magazine. Hettie is curator of the Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood which opened at the Arnolfini in Bristol in 2024, toured to four major venues in the UK, and travels to VISUAL in Carlow, Ireland, in September 2025. The standalone book Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood is published by Thames & Hudson.

Following publication of her 2020 study on the impact of motherhood on artists’ careers, in 2021 she worked with a group of artists to draw up the manifesto How Not To Exclude Artist Parents, now available in 16 languages. In 2022, together with Jo Harrison, Hettie co-founded the Art Working Parents Alliance - a supportive network and campaigning group for curators, academics, gallerists, technicians, educators and others working in the arts. She regularly talks about art and with artists for colleges, as well as museum and gallery events. As a broadcaster she can be heard (and sometimes seen) on programs including BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. Recent books include How Not To Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents) and Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones. Her next book How to Enter the Art World After will be published in 2026. She is currently working on a book on art and women’s desire.

This event is presented by Art Hx and co-sponsored by the Department of Art & Archaeology and Labyrinth Books.