Milk & Blankets
We are delighted to announce a new project in partnership with Birmingham City Council’s Public Health Division, taking place in community hubs across the city between March and June 2025.
Led by artists Ania Bas, Amelia Hawk and Joanne Masding, Milk and Blankets is a free, hands-on art project that explores the act of feeding babies and children, the emotions, techniques, preconceptions and struggles associated with it and the unsolicited advice that can be received. Through engaging, fun and relaxing art making sessions we will develop ideas, write stories and make objects that will come to life during a family picnic celebration at Midland Arts Centre on 10th June 2025, curated by Kaye Winwood.
Visible Bodies at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Between June and July 2024, Ikon Gallery in Birmingham will host the Feeding Chair, alongside a residency and series of free workshops by artist Sally Butcher, as part of our Arts Council funded touring programme, supported by Birmingham City Council Public Health and University of Central Lancashire.
During this time, Ikon's resource room will become a feeding and family space, which you are free to explore or relax in, with or without young children.
Working in the space, Sally will respond to Feed’s themes of public space and the reproductive body through the lens of her own art practice about experiences of infertility.
Sally Butcher to be artist-in-residence at Ikon
Following an open call for applications, we are pleased to announce Sally Butcher as the Feed artist-in-residence at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham in June 2024, as part of the Feeding Chair tour.