Press coverage
metrolife, 18 May 2010
Time Out, 10 May 2010:
"For this excellent, if hard to classify, Artangel event which explores what it's like to become a parent when you're still a child yourself, artist Sarah Cole spent nine months working with some of the very young mothers and fathers who attend the Coram Centre Young Parents Project Friday drop-in sessions.The stories born of the process, though anonymous, are real." (Sara O'Reilly - read full article)
The Observer, 16 May 2010:
"One mother skates on icy blue linoleum. Another lights a blaze in a grate. A third showers on the top floor. The mothers make no eye contact. It is a wistful, angry, vivid piece about motherhood as loss of freedom, as isolation, as house arrest." (Kate Kellaway - read full article)
metrolife, 18 May 2010:
"The claustrophobic building itself is pregnant with tension, a soundtrack creating an incredibly uncomfortable atmosphere, a young mum appears, tenuously attached to her child (signified by a balloon clinging to static on her hand) before the child floats up to the ceiling. Her bitter, aggressive frustration in trying to retrieve it is physically difficult to watch - a moving expression of a teenager struggling with the role of carer." (Zena Alkayat)