Visible Bodies at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Visible Bodies
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
5th June – 7th July 
(Open Wed – Sun ,11am – 5pm)

Between June and July, 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. She is interested in how infertile and maternal bodies are often medicalised, silenced and made invisible within our society. For example, when bodies which struggle to conceive or breastfeed are considered to have ‘failed’, or when breastfeeding mothers are asked to cover up in public. These experiences create taboo topics of infertility and infant feeding.

Sally will create artworks and interventions throughout the gallery, which give a voice and visibility to the words of women and carers left out of mainstream conversations.