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 20.06.2024 / 5.30pm–7.30pm
PAST EVENT
Re-writing the Reproductive Body
Join Sally Butcher, artist in residence for Feed, to re-write a feminist glossary of terms for the reproductive body.
The workshop uses found text to engage participants in slow reading and alternative writing exercises that expand authoritative medical meanings. Exploring the space for in/visible artworks, participants also work collectively to create collaged text scrolls that give voice to hidden lived experiences of both infertile and maternal bodies.
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 artist
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.
Event Date
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Event Details
Free entry, booking essential
Events Room, First Floor
Information on Ikon Gallery’s accessibility is available here
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. Re-writing the reproductive body artwork. Image courtesy of the artist 2. Sally Butcher. Re-writing the reproductive body artwork. Image courtesy of the artist 3. Sally Butcher. Re-writing the reproductive body artwork. Image courtesy of the artist 4. Sally Butcher. Re-writing the reproductive body artwork. 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.