Jacqueline Millner is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at La Trobe University, Australia. Her books include Conceptual Beauty (2010), Fashionable Art (with [...], 2015), Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes, (co-edited with Catriona Moore, 2018) and Contemporary Art and Feminism (with Catriona Moore, 2021). She has co-curated major exhibitions and public programs including Curating Feminism (2014), Future Feminist Archive (2015) and Femflix (2016).

Gretchen Coombs is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT, Australia. She is a co-author of Creative Practice Ethnographies (2019) and author of The Lure of the Social: Encounters with Contemporary Artists (2021).

Introduction; Part 1: Caring relations: collaborating, parenting ; Chapter 1 Care, interrelatedness and creative practices: The Care Project (2018-2022): Jacqueline Millner; Chapter 2 Creative care: modelling caring practices through artistic collaborations in neurodiverse and palliative-care contexts: Catherine Bell; Chapter 3 Improvising caring: Catherine Ryan; Chapter 4 Mental illness, care and the bad mother: Sylvia Griffin; Chapter 5 Soiling the white cube: artist parent experiences: Nina Ross, Lizzie Sampson and Jessie Scott; Part 2: Care and materiality: bodies, craft, textiles; Chapter 6 Mattering bodies in a mattering world: Katie Lee; Chapter 7 Remaining alert to an ethos of care: the responsiveness of artistic process: Kylie Banyard; Chapter 8 The migrant material: Azza Zein; Chapter 9 Threads of Resistance: feminist activism, collaborative making and care ethics: Rachael Haynes; Chapter 10 Care through craft: making in defence of Human Rights: Tal Fitzpatrick and Stephanie Dunlap; Part 3: Care: value, work, institution; Chapter 11 Sex work, care work and art work in Sidsel Meineche Hansen and Therese Henningsen's Maintenancer (2018): Benison Kilby; Chapter 12 Care-full reading: towards a speculative practice of study in the university: Andrew Goodman; Chapter 13 Alleviating anxiety: care in action during the pandemic: Rebecca Mayo; Chapter 14 Working in the Trouble and Jane Bennett's Middle Ground: animating creative projects in the Australian Anthropocene: Elizabeth Day; Chapter 15 FAVOURECONOMY: sharing alternative value in the arts: Stella Chen and Claire Field; Chapter 16 Caring about the vast non-existent horizon: cosmographic infrastructures and performances of care in twenty-first century feminist art practice: Nancy Mauro-Flude; Part 4: Artist pages; Chapter 17 Sam Bews, Elements (The Language of My Mother, Second Iteration), 2021; Rebekah Pryor, Saltcellars, 2017; Ebony Muller, CARE DANCE, 2017-2020; Luisa Bufardeci, Tacking, 2019-ongoing; Linda Judge, Mum, 2019; Part 5: Care and earth: doting, healing, advocating; Chapter 18 Patch/work, re/pair: a braided dialogue on breakage, fires, and the labours of care: Deb Cleland and Zsuzsi Soboslay; Chapter 19 Capturing the air: care in the field of measurement: Jessie Boylan; Chapter 20 Stand your ground: global solidarity through creative care Caroline Phillips; Chapter 21 A manifesto of care: Keely Macarow