Clare Johnson's Outputs (21)

Disembodied breasts and uncontrollable lactation: rethinking the Nursing Virgin motif through Janine Antoni’s to quench (2015) and Eve Dent & Zoë Gingell’s Breastcups (2009-11) (2025)
Book Chapter

Renaissance depictions of the Nursing Virgin are replete with incongruities and juxtapositions. Her rounded feeding breast is absurdly positioned and shaped in contrast to a flat space where her non-feeding breast should be; She has a dual identity a... Read More about Disembodied breasts and uncontrollable lactation: rethinking the Nursing Virgin motif through Janine Antoni’s to quench (2015) and Eve Dent & Zoë Gingell’s Breastcups (2009-11).

Writing Joyishly (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Workshop for the Association for Art History Conference 2024
University of Bristol, 3-5 April 2024

Session Convenors: Rebecca Bell, UWE Bristol; Clare Johnson, UWE Bristol; Rachael Miles, UWE Bristol; Jenny Rintoul, UWE Bristol; Joanne Lee, Sheff... Read More about Writing Joyishly.

“Work with us… to make it more accessible”. What women with intellectual disabilities want from infant-feeding health resources: An exploratory study (2023)
Journal Article

Background: More women with intellectual disabilities are becoming mothers but fewer are known to breastfeed compared with other women. Women with intellectual disabilities are entitled to accessible antenatal and infant feeding information, yet are... Read More about “Work with us… to make it more accessible”. What women with intellectual disabilities want from infant-feeding health resources: An exploratory study.

Supporting women with learning disabilities to feed their babies (2023)
Digital Artefact

This short film was co-produced with researchers and people with a learning disability to make research findings accessible. The research looked at supporting women with learning disabilities to make decisions about how to feed their babies.

Supporting women with learning disabilities in infant feeding decisions: UK health care professionals' experiences (2022)
Journal Article

Women with learning disabilities are less likely to breastfeed than other women. They may find it hard to understand or learn feeding techniques or know that they have infant feeding choices. This population may be supported during their pregnancies... Read More about Supporting women with learning disabilities in infant feeding decisions: UK health care professionals' experiences.

Ways of writing in Art and Design (2022)
Journal Article

This Editorial charts the journey from an initial conversation amongst Visual Culture colleagues at the University of the West of England to this special issue on Ways of Writing in Art and Design. It describes our intention to imagine forms of writi... Read More about Ways of writing in Art and Design.

Searching for Lauren Berlant: Reflections on writing, temporality and loss (2022)
Journal Article

This article reflects on the difficulties of writing with/alongside creative practice during periods of lockdown endured as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It follows my search for Lauren Berlant's writing on the pandemic and my desire to make sen... Read More about Searching for Lauren Berlant: Reflections on writing, temporality and loss.

Editorial (2022)
Journal Article

This Editorial charts the journey from an initial conversation amongst visual culture colleagues at the University of the West of England to this Special Issue on ‘Ways of Writing in Art and Design’. It describes our intention to imagine forms of wri... Read More about Editorial.

The radical potential in becoming: Disembodied breasts and maternal femininity (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Renaissance depictions of the Nursing Virgin are replete with incongruities and juxtapositions. Her rounded feeding breast is absurdly positioned and shaped in contrast to a flat space where her non-feeding breast should be; She has a dual identity a... Read More about The radical potential in becoming: Disembodied breasts and maternal femininity.

Supporting women with learning disabilities in infant feeding decisions: A scoping review (2022)
Journal Article

Mothers with learning disabilities face many challenges during the perinatal period including preparing for and establishing infant feeding. Evidence shows that women with learning disabilities are less likely to breastfeed than other mothers. A scop... Read More about Supporting women with learning disabilities in infant feeding decisions: A scoping review.

Feminist and queer arts activism (2020)
Book Chapter

This chapter adopts an historiographic approach to the field of feminist and queer arts activisms, which privileges ideas of affinity and resonance between artists of different generations rather than canonical notions of chronology, precedence and s... Read More about Feminist and queer arts activism.

Maternal art and post-natal wellbeing: Proximity and separation in Lena Simic’s Contemplation Time (2007-8) and Eti Wade’s Jocasta (2008) (2019)
Journal Article

This article discusses two photographic artworks that challenge popular narratives of failed or achieved maternal femininity. My readings of Lena Simic’s Contemplation Time: a document of maternity leave (2007-8) and Eti Wade’s Jocasta (2008) are inf... Read More about Maternal art and post-natal wellbeing: Proximity and separation in Lena Simic’s Contemplation Time (2007-8) and Eti Wade’s Jocasta (2008).

From nursing Virgins to brelfies: The project of maternal femininity (2019)
Journal Article

Contemporary debates about breastfeeding are saturated with ideas about what constitutes ‘good’ and ‘bad’ mothering, ‘achieved’ or ‘failed’ femininity frequently derived from Christian representations of the Virgin Mother. In this article we trace de... Read More about From nursing Virgins to brelfies: The project of maternal femininity.

Waiting for Marina: Generosity and shared time in Marina Abramovic's 512 Hours (2018)
Journal Article

This presentation examines Marina Abramović’s performance, 512 Hours (Serpentine Gallery, London, 2014) as a catalyst for thinking about forms of criticality needed to respond to contemporary conditions of neoliberal culture. I ask what kind of criti... Read More about Waiting for Marina: Generosity and shared time in Marina Abramovic's 512 Hours.

Gendered violence (2012)
Journal Article

What do radical feminist art films look like? Desire and duration in Sam Taylor-Wood’s David (2004) (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

British feminist art practice has a rich heritage of radical filmmaking, which has contributed to an understanding of radical feminist practice as subversive and oppositional. Crucial as these strategies are, the grounds upon which they were founded... Read More about What do radical feminist art films look like? Desire and duration in Sam Taylor-Wood’s David (2004).

Preposterous histories (2010)
Journal Article

This article explores maternal desire, loss, and control by reading Carolee Schneemann's performance Interior Scroll (1975) through Tracey Emin's photographic print I've Got It All (2000). More specifically, I consider Schneemann's work on the energy... Read More about Preposterous histories.

Emin is screaming: Empathy as affirmative engagement in Tracey Emin's Homage to Edvard Munch and All My Dead Children (1998) (2010)
Journal Article

This article explores the concept of empathy as an affirmative feminist engagement with Tracey Emin’s short film Homage to Edvard Munch and All My Dead Children (1998). I consider the ‘work’ that art does in terms of empathic possibility asking why t... Read More about Emin is screaming: Empathy as affirmative engagement in Tracey Emin's Homage to Edvard Munch and All My Dead Children (1998).

The embodied intellectual: Impression and contact as political currency (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper explores the idea of the embodied intellectual through notions of contact, impression and affect. Through my reading of Tracey Emin’s short film Why I Never Became a Dancer, 1995, I consider the relation of criticality to haptic visuality... Read More about The embodied intellectual: Impression and contact as political currency.

Femininity, time and feminist art
Book