Hanna Isseyegh
A practice-led research project that explores how artist-mothers navigate art-making alongside lived experiences of motherhood. Combining Practice as Research with workshops, discussions and surveys, the study centres a defined group of artist-mothers. The findings highlight the interdependence of maternal and artistic practice.
This research examined how a small group of professional artist-mothers living and/or working in or near Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin navigate their lived realities of being both mothers and artists.
Participants’ responses indicated that art-making and motherhood are deeply interconnected rather than separate domains. Many described how maternal experience shapes their creative processes, informing subject matter, constraining and structuring time, and prompting adaptive strategies for making work within conditions of care. In this sense, motherhood was not experienced solely as a limitation, but also as a generative force within artistic practice.
Exploring the Lived Experience of Artist-Mothers
Hanna Isseyegh is a Dublin-based visual artist and socially engaged practitioner working across printmaking, textiles and artist publishing. Their work explores identity and transformation, focusing on the emotional and physical dimensions of care, labour and everyday life. Using found materials and collected data, their practice reframes the domestic as a site of tension and possibility.
They have completed an MA in Design for Change at IADT, researching artists engaged in the labour of care. Alongside their studio work, Isseyegh develops socially engaged projects within the local community.
Their work has been exhibited in Ireland and across the UK.
