The Milky Way

Sept 2025 - Jan 2026
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (GoMA)

The Milky Way is an exhibition and events programme responding to the national tour of the Feeding Chair in the only Scottish stop of the tour.

The programme includes a series of events, a publication with creative group Mammas Write, and a powerful new body of work by artist Jessica Ramm, co-commissioned with GoMA.

The Milky Way Zine

Supported by the Gallery of Modern Art's learning programme as part of the Feed project, Mammas Write, a collective of mothers determined to continue their creative lives within the chaos of new motherhood, have met regularly since Summer 2024.

Their publication The Milky Way Zine, which is included in the Feeding Chair’s resources, was created with their babies and toddlers very much present, in arms, joined at the nipple, woven into the work.

Here, mothering, feeding and creativity are inseparable. The contributors use writing and image-making to rediscover themselves, and this book emerged in the shared solidarity of their weekly sessions, capturing the beauty, mess, and power of their mothering and breastfeeding journeys.

Hard Edges Soft Layers

Jessica Ramm’s exhibition Hard Edges Soft Layers is a collection of new works that came out of her personal reflections, alongside research into female collective action, histories of witchcraft, and portrayals of motherhood and breastfeeding in art.

The work, which includes screen prints, video and a neon piece, explores vulnerability in relation to motherhood, drawing from the fear, shame and wonder Jessica experienced in the early days of parenthood.

The Milky Way is funded by Arts Council England and Glasgow Life. 

Artist Jessica Ramm, standing next to her young son and a large chair decorated with the text 'Love is the Dream'.
Two women standing in a gallery, speaking on microphones whilst other people sit on the floor.
Artist Jessia Ramm standing next two two brightly coloured prints on a gallery wall.
Orange coloured neon artwork in the shape of breasts.
A group of women and children sitting on beanbags and a large chair with orange upholstery.
Woman breastfeeding a baby in a large chair with orange upholstery, with a small girl standing next to her. They are in a gallery space with people sitting on the floor behind them.
Woman sitting in a large chair, decorated with drawings, with a baby and little girl on her knee.
Four women standing in a line. One is carrying a small child and another is holding a microphone and reading from a zine.
A woman and small child sitting in a large chair with orange upholstery, holding a zine with the words 'The Milky Way' on the front.
A woman breastfeeding a baby in a large chair with orange upholstery.
People sitting on the floor in a gallery.

Opening of the Milky Way (photos 1, 2,6,7,8,10,11), by Katherine Anne Rose.

Prints and neon artwork by Jessica Ramm, by Neil Hannah (photos 3,4).

Mamma Write members (photos 5,9) by Neil Hannah.

All photos courtesy of Glasgow Life Museums.