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.
Feed at Birmingham Design Festival
We are delighted to announce that we will be talking about Feed as part of the fabulous Birmingham Design Festival (6th - 8th June). One of the aims of Feed is to take debates about infant feeding outside of limited discussions about parental responsibility or choice, and look at how, as a society, we can and should support the feeding of infants with human milk. So it's fantastic to be invited to talk about our work within the context of design.
Leeds Art Gallery workshops
To coincide with the inclusion of the Feeding Chair in the Found Cities, Lost Objects exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery, curated by Lubaina Himid CBE, we will be running a series of workshops to collectively create a floor flag manifesto for care and feeding, including breastfeeding, in Leeds City Centre. Drop into Leeds Art Gallery between 11am and 3pm on Wed 10th – Sat 13th April to take part.
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.
New essay by Lara Eggleton
As part of our Arts Council England funded Feeding Chair tour, we've partnered with online writing platform Corridor8 to commission 7 new pieces of writing about feeding, parenting and public space.
Our first text, to coincide with the Feeding Chair being shown as part of the Found Cities, Lost Objects exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery, is by Leeds-based writer, Lara Eggleton.
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.