Spilt Milk is an artist-led social enterprise based in Scotland whose mission is to promote the work of artists who are mothers. 

 
 
 
 
 

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#Repost @fruitmarketgallery with @get_repost ・・・ This week is Open Out – A week of installation, artists’ moving image, workshops, performance, dance and live music at The Fruitmarket Gallery. Exploring collaborative working across artforms and giving artists the opportunity to experiment and show their work. With @marcgiorda’s installation Conjunctive Tissue hanging over the stairs and taking over the lower Gallery space on Tuesday and Wednesday. We have workshops and performances from Aniela Piasecka, and a selection of moving image works exploring motherhood by Courtney Kessel, Alison O’Neil and Megan Wynne from artist-led, social enterprise – @spiltmilkgallery – who promote the work of artists who are mothers. On Thursday we explore installation and performance work around gender and sexuality developed on our Brazilian residency with Despina. Artists @stephanieblackdaniels and @henrydmcpherson lead artist-aimed workshops and add live elements to the presentation of their, and artists @viniciuspintorosa’s and @mirospinelli’s, work. On Friday a new Dance piece from Farah Saleh – What My Body Can/t Remember is the latest story in Palestinian dancer and choreographer’s Palestinian Archive of Gestures. Saleh attempts to archive her personal story by exploring what her body can and can’t remember of her life in Ramallah in 2002 when, living under curfew. On Saturday we welcome @kobionyame and @heirofthecursed to play at the Fruitmarket. Onyame is a UK-based Ghanaian hip-hop artist who draws heavily on African culture – both sonically and visually – creating a deft crossover between traditional hip-hop and Ghanaian rhythms. Joining him will be Heir of The Cursed who is known for her mesmerising, intricate guitar work and soulful voice. As well as singing on Onyame’s album GOLD, she has been wowing Scottish audiences with her own songs influenced by the strange nuances of life, rooted in grief, Scottish weather, the constant and the inconstant. And to top it all off on Sunday we have a closing party curated by @freshfruit1625 celebrating art and connectedness. #openout #farahsaleh #fruitmarketgallery
@anneleenphoto has taken over the @transient_collective Instagram this week sharing a new series of work exploring her personal experiences of living with epilepsy. The work will be exhibited next month @patriothallgallery Do head over to Anneleen's page to see more and read her descriptions of these images which are incredibly powerful and incredibly beautiful. We look forward to the exhibition! . . . . #epilepsyawareness #epilepsy #photography #conceptual #abstractart #womenphotographers #light #photographer #motherartist #edinburgh #patriothallgallery #transientcollective
Lauren will be leading a tour of The Birth Rites Collection, Guys campus Kings College London, tomorrow 12.2.19 at 5pm. Londoners! Come along and see the only collection of art dedicated to the subject of childbirth, it really is a fantastic and empowering collection of work. Book via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/birth-rites-collection-tours-tickets-42938214355 . . Image is by Ana Casas Broda, from the Kinderwunsch series. . . . #anacasasbroda #birthritescollection #kinderwunsch #photography #photographyandmotherhood #motherhood #birth #ivf #series #childbirth #londonartscene #tours #contemporaryart
#repost @_littlewitches 🙏🏼 IN THE MAMAHOUSE . . . #polaroid #polaroidphoto #mama #motherdaughter #selfportrait #selfie #portrait #photography #motherhood #motherartist #spiltmilk #photooftheday #nonprofit #maternal #maternalart #maternalbody #womeninart #Mamahouse #girlfaze
Tonight @_elephantwest 🙌 #Repost @_elephantwest with @get_repost ・・・ #PanelDiscussion Tomorrow, 6-9pm @_elephantwest Is Childbirth the Ultimate Taboo? ~ Join us for a candid panel discussion on childbirth and its image in contemporary culture, busting myths around one of the most universal yet taboo subjects in the world. Guests are invited to share their birth stories and experiences, and to hear speakers, curator #HelenKnowles, midwife #ClaireCousins, and artist #IringóDemeter talk about how birth has shaped their work and changed their lives. Moderated by @elephantmagazine editor-at-large Charlotte Jansen @omfgnoway Doors open at 6pm Talk starts at 7pm Please RSVP at link in our bio 📷Image @iringo.demeter
#Repost @we.are.mamakind with @get_repost ・・・ “The absence of Black mommy memoirs mirrors the relative absence of Black women’s voices in mainstream U.S. media discourse about motherhood in general. In particular, this discourse is concerned with how women balance the demands of family and careers, and with the decision by some college-educated women to opt out of the labor force altogether and remain at home with their children. When this discourse ceased to be polite, the explosion was dubbed “the mommy wars.” . The genesis of the mommy wars can be traced back to the “cult of true womanhood” (also known as the “cult of domesticity”), the 19th-century view that delicate white women bore the sole responsibility for housekeeping and childcare, and were to be placed on pedestals at home and kept out of the public sphere. By contrast, since 1619 when the first slaves arrived on the shores of what is now the United States, most Black mothers have had no choice but to work. Instead of being placed on pedestals, Black women watched as our babies were placed on auction blocks. And yet, we pressed on through the most dehumanizing conditions, working on the plantations, and caring for the children who remained. . The abundance of ink and airtime devoted to a vocal minority of women promotes the idea that this minority’s experience is somehow universal. Low-income and working-class women, Black women, and other women of color don’t see their mothering experiences and concerns reflected in the mommy media machine, and we get the cultural message loud and clear: Affluent white women are the only mothers who really matter.” . . . . . . . . . . { Excerpts from: “Ain’t I a Mommy - Why are so few motherhood memoirs penned by women of color?“ by @deeshaphilyaw for @bitchmedia // Photo of @1tsage and her mother by @chicagochildphotog89 via @mahogany_mommies }
'God Giving Birth' (1968) Monica Sjöö, 1938 – 2005 was a Swedish painter, writer and a radical anarcho/eco-feminist. She was a pioneer exponent in the Goddess movement. She moved to Britain in the late years of the 1950s and died of cancer in 2005, aged 66. Her artworks were often courted with controversy. Specially, her most famous painting: God Giving Birth, which the artist said she found inspiration for after she home birthed her son. The painting was seized by the authorities on several occasions for its alleged obscenity. . . . #5womenartists #femaleartist #motherartist #censorship #birth #womeninthearts #womenartists #womeninart #artoftheday #anonymouswasawoman #goddessmovement #godgivingbirth #thegreatcosmicmother #monicasjöö #painting
We are excited to team up with #CitizenCurator on their #UnsungLeith project and offer a series of free drop-in creative workshops with crèche places for local mums in Leith! Workshops will be led by Spilt Milk member Fi Bailey and take place @drbellsfamily during the February half term (11th,13th, 14th & 15th 12-2pm). Workshops are drop-in but crèche spaces are limited so please book and register your child via the link in our bio ASAP! More info via link in bio or DM us with any questions. . . . #communityart #Leith #Edinburgh #trailblazingwomen #creativeworkshop #socent #supportingfamilies #supportingmothers #thingstodowithkids #halfterm #spiktmilk #unsungleith #breakingbarriers #accesstoarts