News 26.03.2024
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Sally Butcher: FEED artist-in-residence
Ikon is pleased to announce Sally Butcher as artist-in-residence for Feed, organised in collaboration with Birmingham City Council and In Certain Places.
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EVENT 28.06.2024 / 11.00am–1.00pm
Re-framing the Reproductive Object
Join Sally Butcher, artist in residence for Feed, and Sophie Beckett, Public Health Research Officer at Birmingham Museums Trust, to re-frame reproductive objects in the city’s collection.
Participants engage in slow looking exercises with the museum’s historic objects, including a 1926 public health pamphlet for new mothers and mid-century glass feeding bottles. Participants also sketch, print, write and collage, creating alternative knowledges that reflect contemporary experiences of parenthood in Birmingham.
This event is organised to coincide with Ikon’s presentation of Feeding Chair (5 June – 7 July 2024) and is presented as part of Ikon’s 60th anniversary year.
About the participants
Sally Butcher is an artist, researcher, activist and (m)other, based in Birmingham. Her interdisciplinary feminist practice draws on lived experience to engage with spheres of subjectivity and embodiment. Butcher’s PhD explores the ‘Invisibilities of (In)fertility between the Medical and the Maternal’ through narrative, language and bodily data.
Sophie Beckett is Public Health Research Officer at Birmingham Museums Trust and works in partnership with Birmingham City Council Public Health. She looks to unlock the health value of the city’s heritage collection through creative and community-led interaction.
Event Date
Friday 28 June 2024
11.00am–1.00pm
11.00am–1.00pm
Event Details
Free entry, booking essential
Events Room, First Floor
Information on Ikon Gallery’s accessibility is available here
Babies in arms and young children welcome.
No specialist knowledge required, just a willingness to look, listen and make. Please feel free to bring old baby bottles, pumps and cups to use in the workshop activities.
For additional access enquiries please contact education@ikon-gallery.org
VENUE
Ikon Gallery
1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS
Image Credits
1. Sally Butcher. EASY does it. Image courtesy of the artist 2. Sally Butcher. Slow Looking Feeding Objects, printed teat. Image courtesy of the artist 3. Sally Butcher. Slow Looking Feeding Objects. Image courtesy of the artist 4. (1991F813, Booklet 'Advice To Wives & Mothers'), With permission of Birmingham Museums Trust. Image courtesy of the artist
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Exhibition 05.06.2024–07.07.2024
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Feeding Chair
Sally Butcher: Visible Bodies
Ikon hosts Feeding Chair (2022), a collaborative artwork which invites parents and carers to feed their young children in galleries and other public venues. Featuring artwork by artist Jade de Montserrat, the chair integrates audio works and videos about infant feeding, gender and public space.