{"id":395,"date":"2012-07-12T21:38:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T20:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loopartists.org.uk\/?page_id=395"},"modified":"2022-06-16T03:57:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T02:57:13","slug":"ursula-kelly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.loopartists.org.uk\/?page_id=395","title":{"rendered":"Ursula Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My work is based on memories, social history, relationships and ultimately identity. Wondrous Birth is a series of work based on the idea of mothers having to give up their newborn child for whatever reason but when doing so leave a token with the child in the hope of one day being reunited with them. The token therefore acts as an identifier but only if it is left with the child.<\/p>\n<p>I have made a series of etchings and cast them in resin. There is no print version of any etching plate. The casting process acts as a means of preservation and security, making it impossible to develop the print, which is a metaphor for the mother\/child relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The images used are based on research from The Foundling Hospital in London, Sean Ross Abbey in Co. Tipperary and answers to a questionnaire I carried out.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My work is based on memories, social history, relationships and ultimately identity. Wondrous Birth is a series of work based on the idea of mothers having to give up their newborn child for whatever reason but when doing so leave a token with the child in the hope of one day being reunited with them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":410,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-395","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loopartists.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loopartists.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loopartists.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loopartists.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loopartists.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.loopartists.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/www.loopartists.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395\/revisions\/1283"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loopartists.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loopartists.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}