Hettie Judah : “Artists often feel they need to hide their parenthood from the art world.”

Points of Entry

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Hettie Judah, a journalist and critic based in London who’s authored a new book: How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents). They talk about how discrimination against parenthood in the arts is an international issue, what artists with care-taking responsibilities might need when they travel for their work, and what cultural organisations could do to be more parent-friendly.
This episode was commissioned by On the Move, produced with the support of the French Ministry of Culture, and edited by Émilie Wadelle.
We have created a transcript of this episode and a written translation in French.
mentioned in this episode :
· guidelines for institutions and residencies at artist-parents.com
· the 2019 Freelands Foundation study on the representation of female artists in Britain
· Industria’s project for increasing pay transparency in publicly-funded arts institutions in the UK
On the Move is compiling a list of international resources on the intersection of parenthood and mobility across all creative disciplines.
Points of Entry can be found online at
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special thanks : Marie Le Sourd
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