Magnesium Bird explores the transformation of becoming a mother. Sutapa Biswas has described the painting in relation to the birth of her son, and to the losses, gains and renewed perception that accompanied that experience. Made in 2006 in acrylic and line drawing on watercolour paper, it gives a deeply personal subject an intimate material form. The work opens motherhood as a process of change, through which familiar life can be encountered anew.
Catalogue record and images from the Joseph Clark Collection. Rights in the work remain with the artist or their estate.
