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 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
Ikon welcomes Sally Butcher as artist-in-residence for Feed. Her residency responds to Feed’s themes of gender, care and the space of the reproductive and maternal body, through the lens of her own practice-based research about experiences of infertility. Read more.

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.