Art / Mother's Day
‘Phone Your Mum Back’ posters appear in Bristol
Baker & Borowski is an artist-curator collaboration between sculptor and placemaking specialist Catherine Borowski, and painter and music producer Lee Baker.
They are dedicated to bringing “unexpected eruptions of art” into the everyday urban landscape.
In the runup to Mother’s Day on March 27, they have launched a nationwide campaign of billboards and posters called PHONE YOUR MUM BACK, featuring an artwork that celebrates the power of maternal relationships.
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The posters are visible in London, Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff, Brighton and Bristol, where you can see them on Upper York Street / Stokes Croft and Stapleton Road.
The central impetus for the artwork is to encourage people to pick up the phone to our mums, as Mother’s Day approaches. The project comes after the death of Catherine’s mother in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in 2016, and the calls she missed to tell her of her mother’s death.
Phone Your Mum Back – Baker & Borowski – photo: flyingleaps
“We know not everyone has an amazing relationship with their mum, but we are saying that if you can repair and make peace with your mum, give it a go,” says Borowski.
“For Lee, this is a response to years of not phoning his mum back but for me, it’s knowing how it feels when your mum suddenly isn’t there.”
Prints of the artworks can be bought at flyingleaps, and Baker & Borowski will be donating 100 per cent of the profits from sales of the first 100 prints to The Loss Project, a social enterprise that uses creativity to help communities with grief and loss.
Phone Your Mum Back – Baker & Borowski – photo: flyingleaps
Baker & Borowski are known for SKIP Gallery, their ongoing collaborative artwork offering the chance to make “artistic interventions in unexpected places” using a modified skip.
PHONE YOUR MUM BACK launches on the fifth anniversary of Baker & Borowski’s SKIP Gallery piece, Na, I Don’t Want None of That Again, which pays tribute to both artists’ mothers, and is a further exploration of Borowski and Baker’s own maternal relationships.
Capturing a Phone Your Mum Back billboard – Baker & Borowski – photo: Aron Klein
Baker & Borowski: PHONE YOUR MUM BACK has now launched. More information is available at www.flyingleaps.co.uk. If you are dealing with a bereavement or other types of losses and this message has caused you distress, please contact Baker & Borowski’s community partner The Loss Project. You can find them at www.thelossproject.com or hello@thelossproject.com.
Main photo: Aron Klein
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