Feeding Chair goes on tour
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded funding from Arts Council of England, Birmingham City Council, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow and University of Central Lancashire to take our Feeding Chair to venues across the UK:
Between Nov 2023 - Jan 2026 the chair will tour to:
The Tetley, Leeds: 14 – 19 Nov 2023
Leeds Art Gallery : 26 January – 21 April 2024
Ikon, Birmingham: 5 June – 7 July 2024
Watershed, Bristol: July – September 2024
Chapter Arts, Cardiff: October – December 2024
Woodend Gallery, Scarborough: January – April 2025
Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library, Preston: April – July 2025
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow: August – December 2025
The specially designed chair is a space for everyone, but especially for carers to bottle or body-feed their babies in cultural venues – the kinds that offer free entry, eliminating the need for parents to purchase things in order to have a safe space to feed. Integrating audio artworks and videos about gender, public space and representation, the chair creates a focus for a rich programme of community-led events, three commissioned artworks, an artist residency and writing by members of diverse ethnic, disability and LGBTQ+ communities about issues of mental health, wellbeing and environmental sustainability, through the lens of infant feeding. Find out more here.
At each venue, the installation of the chair will be accompanied by a creative engagement programme, which will explore themes of the project in ways that reflect the interests and support the needs of local communities. There are artists commissions planned in Bristol, Birmingham and Glasgow.
For a press pack, interviews and images, please contact Catharine Braithwaite on +44 (0)7947 644110 or cat@we-r-lethal.com