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. The work acts as a focus for sharing experiences and challenging social attitudes towards feeding and mothering and Ikon’s presentation is accompanied by a number of public workshops and talks. 

Artist in residence: Sally Butcher
Sally Butcher presents Visible Bodies, responding to  Feed’s themes of gender, parental care and public space, through the lens of her own practice-based research about experiences of infertility. Read more.

During the residency space and through a series of public workshops, Butcher creates performative text pieces that explore alternative meanings around the reproductive body.

The chair is part of Feed, an arts-based project developed by In Certain Places at University of Central Lancashire, in collaboration with Corridor8 and Textbook Studio.  

This presentation is supported by Birmingham City Council Public Health and is presented as part of Ikon’s 60th anniversary year.