‘Love Cries’: The Feeding Chair comes to Cardiff
Postnatal doula and founder of The Mama Cwtch, Emily Roux, has written a beautiful article for Corridor8 in response to The Feeding Chair at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff.
Read about public space, matrescence and how art helped Emily to find a sense of community in the early stages of motherhood.
Emily will also be running two free workshops at Chapter as part of World Breastfeeding Week next month, alongside a special screen of Milk Report the Film by Conway and Young.
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.
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.
Feeding Chair goes on tour
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 and Jan 2026.