A PROVOCATIVE self-portrait artist is returning to Warrington following an award-winning piece about motherhood.

Lāsma Poiša, 38, a Latvian-British mother to nine-month-old Esme, has brought back her thought-provoking art style focused on motherhood.

Lāsma previously won the first Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival’s Open Exhibition post-pandemic and is now returning to the town with a full exhibition at Warrington Museum.

The exhibition, named ‘I Became a Mother’ is described as 'a personal journey into a universal female experience of metamorphosis, evolution, and recovery’.

Lāsma’s winning piece in the Open Exhibition was a stunning self-portrait of herself and her child Esme, and ‘I became a mother’ continues to explore this idea.

Photographing Esme became the Latvian-British mother’s only opportunity for a creative output after becoming a parent in early 2022, with the event description stating that ‘these photographs transcended the immediate function of the family album, revealing lesser-known sides of mothering.’

It went on to say: “This work reconsiders the conventional representation of the mother, reframing birth, and motherhood as a mystical journey down the well as part of a feminine initiation.”

‘I became a Mother’ will be available to view at Warrington Museum between March 8 and May 19 of 2024. Entry is free.