Felicity Allen, Bobby Baker, Aurora Bengoechea, Virginia Bodman, Claire Charnley, Catherine Elwes, Beth Fisher, Mako Idemitsu, Daksha Caroline Jariwala, Marysia Lewandowska, Bridget Macdonald, Michael Maziere, Sher Rajah, Sebastiane, Jo Spence with Rosy Martin and David Roberts.

Mothers was a group exhibition that lifted the lid on motherhood and mothers. Fifteen artists (selected on submission from over three hundred applicants) made disarmingly honest – sometimes amusing and often touching – works about their feelings and experiences. Drawings, paintings, photographs, videos, installations and a performance explored a vast, largely unchartered and sometimes controversial territory.

Mothers ran concurrently with the exhibition Sacred Bonds at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 22 September – 18 November 1990. Sacred Bonds took a searching look at the way artists throughout history – most of them men – have represented mothers.