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Submission deadline: 6 December 2026
Exhibition Period: March 25-29 2026
Title:  The Hand that Rocks
Location: @67yorkstreetgallery London W1H 1QB
PV: Wednesday 25 March 6.30-8.30pm
Opening Hours: 25-27 11am-5pm 28-29 12-5pm
work delivers 24 March after 12pm & collects 30 March before 4pm

• Castello 6668 calls are open to UK and international artists covering painting, sculpture, textiles, photography & mixed media
• Background & Theme: The core of the collective met at the Royal College of Art where it hosted its first motherhood exhibition ‘All Love Begins and Ends Here’ in 2025, exploring complex lived motherhood experiences beyond the Virgin and Child subject so venerated in European art. The show is being published as an article on the Mothers and Mothering throughout the Life Course journal, fall 2025. The collective’s latest project is, like the first, entitled after a phrase by a poet, William Ross Wallace: ‘The Hand that Rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world’. It asks participating artists to respond to Middle Ages visionary abbess Hildegard of Bingen’s interpretation of the female as ‘a vessel actively advancing, nourishing, purifying and caring for future generations’. Mother as a creative force, giver, an active medium, a travelling guardian in dialogue between the wider world and its future embedded in the growing child. Woman. Vessel. World. 
• artists must email mismarimariam@gmail.com and may submit up to 3 works for consideration
• there is no submission fee but a £100 exhibitor fee will be confirmed if selected, limited to cover venue hire and marketing
• jpeg images under 3MB (up to 2 per artwork) must accurately represent the art. Title, year, materials, size (cms), weight if >1kg , £ price if for sale and installation requirements must be provided as well as a sentence about the work relating to the exhibition theme
• Artist website or Instagram required

By submitting the artist agrees to conditions as estated in https://castello6668.wordpress.com/