Creative workshops in Scarborough
During November 2024, poet Charlotte Oliver will be hosting drop-in creative workshops at Scarborough Art Gallery, exploring people’s experiences of breast, chest and bottle-feeding in public. Participants will be encouraged to distil their thoughts and feelings about the subject down to a few words to write onto a breast badge, which they design and make themselves. The conversations will be used to create a soundscape, which will include poetry and accompany the Feeding Chair when it is hosted at Woodend Gallery in Spring 2025.
New commission by Conway and Young
We are excited to announce a new commission by Bristol-based artists Conway and Young, which will be launched in early 2025 as part of the Feed project.
Conway and Young take a collaborative approach to their projects, which are motivated by art and design’s critical, social, civic and political potential. Their new artwork, Milk Report, is a short film that explores the politics and economics of care through the lens of breastfeeding.
Feeding Chair at Watershed, Bristol
During August 2024, the Feeding Chair will be hosted in Watershed’s café bar, as part of a tour of cultural venues across the UK, funded by Arts Council of England. The chair complements Watershed’s own commitments to access and inclusion, demonstrated through their provision of services and spaces that provide social infrastructure, such as their award-winning toilets, which are open for everyone to use, not just their customers.
Photo by Jon Aitken
Found Cities, Lost Objects
As part of our Arts Council funded tour, we are delighted to have our Feeding Chair included in the 'Found Cities, Lost Objects' exhibition curated by Turner Prize-winning artist and cultural activist Lubaina Himid CBE.