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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Loving how the Spilt Milk community is connecting and growing in so many beautiful ways 💕💥 Posted @withrepost • @cassandraharrison7 This is part of my artist’s page on @spiltmilkgallery website. This has turned into a wonderful community for mother artists. I have made some great connections through this group. The group is not just for Edinburgh based artists. Just last week my daughter and I received a card from Switzerland, sent to us from a friend we made through Spilt Milk. Now our daughters are pen pals. Our plan is to some day meet up in Geneva. #artistmother #spiltmilkartist #cassandraharrison #penpals
Posted @withrepost • @ishbelmyerscough I’ve been drawing and painting him for 18 years now..... happy birthday lovely boy....time for a new painting......
‘Baby Blues’, Laura Ajayi @lauraajayi . LAURA AJAYI (BFA ‘09, University of Lethbridge) is a mother-artist and educator based in Ottawa, Canada. In addition to the productive work of mothering, Ajayi has exhibited her work across Canada and facilitated studio arts programming in Ontario, Alberta and Nunavut. In 2018, her collaborative exhibition with April Matisz, Mama, Mommy, Mother, Mum, was shown in The Gallery at Casa in Lethbridge, Alberta. She has been featured in publications in New York and the United Kingdom and has recently been accepted to the MOTHRA Parent-Artists Residency on Toronto Island. Ajayi has an immersive, home-based practice that is informed by the sensory and intellectual load of domestic life and child-rearing. Rooted in the tradition of self-portraiture, Ajayi works primarily in drawing, fiber arts and photography to explore relationships between sensuality and domesticity, perceptions of feminine identities, and the (abject) maternal. . . . #spiltmilkartist #lauraajayi #maternal #makingmotherhoodvisible #maternalmentalhealth #babyblues #domesticity #canadianartist #motherartist #fibreart #textiles #textbasedvisualart #blues #mixedmediaartwork #selfportraiture #mothra
Stained; Ashes of Labor found/discarded glass, donated breast milk, copper foil, solder, steel. by Arin Ashley. @arinashleystudio “This stained glass window was created with found glass that had been used, broken and discarded. To stain the glass, breast milk was encased in between several hand cut clear glass circles and then placed in a kiln to be fused. This process burned away the breast milk leaving behind a ‘stain’ of ashes preserved within the glass. This sculpture was a collaborative work. The breast milk was pumped and donated by three generous mothers from the artist’s neighborhood. The glass fragments were collected, cleaned, cut and then fused with the donated breast milk by the artist. Lastly, another incredibly generous and talented artist and mother, Elaina Rivera, finished up the collaborative effort by joining/mending all the pieces with copper foil and solder.” . #arinashley #breastfeedingart @breastfeedingart #breastmilk #mothersrtist #breastmilk #collaboration #motherhood #maternalbody #stainedglasswindow #sculpture #exhibition #mfa #womeninthearts #spiltmilkartist
Posted @withrepost • @artistmotherpodcast Don’t worry, with all the buzz about the #artistmotherretreat we still know it’s Monday and that means a new podcast episode!! This one is really special, with a pioneer in sustainable art systems and long time champion of women and Mother artists. Lauren McLaughlin is an award winning Scottish artist whose interdisciplinary practice includes collage, photography, neon and installation. Lauren’s story is inspiring and beautiful. She shares about the many trials she has faced along her path so far, attempting to piece together a life as an artist and single Mom. Despite facing years of rejection, Lauren eventually went to art school when her son was 3 years old. We discuss how Lauren’s life and studio practice has transformed over the years and what it is like now that her son is a teenager. She also shares about her journey starting Spilt Milk @spiltmilkgallery an artist-led social enterprise based in Scotland whose mission is to promote the work of artists who are mothers. We discuss the need for creating art spaces that are welcoming to children and families, and how caregivers need more respect and empowerment in our society and much more! Hope you enjoy this interview and please comment/like/share! 💛 #artistmotherpodcast #spiltmilkgallery
. . . #sundayvibes #louisebourgeois #sundayinspiration #rebirth #birth #drawing #inkonpaper #artematernal #maternalbodies #red #womenartists #greatwomenartists
Nadia Nizamudin is currently showing work in an exhibition @cult_gallery @nadianizamudin Nadia’s new work is based on an excerpt from #warsanshire’s haunting poem ‘The House’: • ‘Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women; kitchen of lust, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes the men - they come with keys, and sometimes, the men - they come with hammers.’ • “This particular piece is titled ‘Bedroom: quantity vs quality’ and it addresses the Islamic laws of polygamy versus how it is currently being culturally practised in this country (and maybe other countries) right now. The former is very firm on sustaining an equal standard of quality of life between one’s wives and children, whereas here you largely have men clamouring for a variety of warm bodies to take up at each night, with complete disregard to the Islamic importance of the quality of life of the wives and kids.” @nadianizamudin . . . . #pinkart #subversiveart #pinkembroidery #textileartist #fiberart #contemporaryart #artistmother #womenartist #femaleartist #embroidery #threadpainting #mixedmedia #artexhibition #artshow #artgallery #artstudio #womenempowerment #womenissues #genderequality #spiltmilkartist
Welcome to our new member @jillskulina Jill Skulina is a Dundee based artist working from wasps studios since finishing her MFA in 2007. She is a professional member of @societyscottishartists and in 2016 received the Visual Artist and Craft Makers Award Fife. Jill makes work depicting memories of life events. In recent years handmade dolls evolved into cocooned, encased, and surrounded figures and portraits using found dolls, crochet, ceramics and plaster. These works are memorials to concealment of thoughts and feelings, deceiving the outside world that we are coping, while also showing emotional transformation and strength. To find out more about Jill's work, head to our artist member pages! . . #jillskulina #dundeeartist #dolls #ceramics #portrait #sculpture #femaleartist #womeninthearts #mothersinthearts #spiltmilkartist #scottishartscene