Martina Mullaney is currently Post-Doctoral Researcher on the Feminist Art Making Histories Project at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire, Ireland. She holds an AHRC-funded Ph.D. in art from the University of Reading 2022. Her Ph.D. The Missing Mother by practice and thesis asks ‘How art on and of maternity can transcend its own audience? She convened The Missing Mother Conference in 2021 from which this publication comes. After the birth of her daughter, she initiated the project Enemies of Good Art 2009 a multi-disciplinary research project interrogating motherhood as experience and the art world. The project was executed through a series of public meetings, performances, lectures, and live radio discussions. Enemies of Good Art broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM between between 2021 and 2012. Events took place in London at; Tate Modern, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Southbank Centre and Chisenhale Gallery. In Europe at Tranzit Display Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic and Galerija Nova, Zagreb. She has worked on visual project with Balenciaga, Paris, The British Council, Sri Lanka and Georgia, Cork Film Center, Gallery of Photography Dublin and Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales. She is a recipient of the Red Mansion Art Prize, London and China. Her work has been exhibited with Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, Franekel Gallery, San Francisco, Artwall Gallery, Prague and The Mission Gallery, Swansea.