Do you hear me now? Expressions of maternal experience through auto-ethnography and the bodily embodiment of clay

Corrina Thornton

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Investigating the potentials of expressing lived maternal experiences, through autoethnographic storytelling by using multidisciplinary practices grounded in clay and ceramics. Utilising its malleability, its material meanings and craft histories. Investigating the potentials and strategies of working as an artistic researcher with other mothering people within healthcare and community spaces, as a resistance to further marginalisation of mothering people, and the healing of individual and collective trauma and maternal disempowerment.

type	research exposition
keywords	Maternal, Autoethnogrpahy, socially engaged art, Participatory Art, trauma, Mental health, clay, ceramics, Video art, Sculpture
date	25/11/2025
published	17/02/2026
last modified	17/02/2026
status	published
affiliation	Department of Fine Art, KMD, University of Bergen
copyright	Corrina Thornton
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/4014156/4014157
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.4014156
published in	Research Catalogue

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Do you hear me now? Expressions of maternal experience through auto-ethnography and the bodily embodiment of clay (2026)

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