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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“The working class women’s voice, no matter the race, is majorly under-represented within the arts and higher education in the UK. Our struggles and experiences are very much different to those from affluent or comfortable backgrounds. And these new and varied perspectives need to be examined and discussed MORE within the arts. It’s about time there were more of us in the contemporary art world and higher education. And its about time working class women DO NOT feel the need to change the way they talk or walk to fit into a predominately white middle-class arena” Freddie Thomas' solo show IF ITS GOOD ENOUGH FOR FRIDA KHALO ITS GOOD ENOUGH FOR FRED BLOGGS opens one week today 29th March in Ayr Glasgow @breadartslaboratory not to be missed!! --- 🙌🙌🙌 #fredbloggs #spiltmilkartist #supportingmothers #socent #selfie #selfportrait #workingclassartist #pink #text #thankfuckimme #freddiethomas #soloexhibition #scottishartscene #supportingwomen #supportingmothers #spiltmilk #sayitloud #empoweringwomen #artscene
“The working class women’s voice, no matter the race, is majorly under-represented within the arts and higher education in the UK. Our struggles and experiences are very much different to those from affluent or comfortable backgrounds. And these new and varied perspectives need to be examined and discussed MORE within the arts. It’s about time there were more of us in the contemporary art world and higher education. And its about time working class women DO NOT feel the need to change the way they talk or walk to fit into a predominately white middle-class arena” Freddie Thomas' solo show IF ITS GOOD ENOUGH FOR FRIDA KHALO ITS GOOD ENOUGH FOR FRED BLOGGS opens one week today 29th March in Ayr Glasgow @breadartslaboratory not to be missed!! 💕💕💕 --- #fredbloggs #fridakhalo #painting #selfportrait #exhibition #textart #workingclass #womeninthearts #diversityinthearts #soloshow #ayr #artistsofinstagram #makingmotherhoodvisible
“The working class women’s voice, no matter the race, is majorly under-represented within the arts and higher education in the UK. Our struggles and experiences are very much different to those from affluent or comfortable backgrounds. And these new and varied perspectives need to be examined and discussed MORE within the arts. It’s about time there were more of us in the contemporary art world and higher education. And its about time working class women DO NOT feel the need to change the way they talk or walk to fit into a predominately white middle-class arena” @fred___bloggs Freddie Thomas' solo show IF ITS GOOD ENOUGH FOR FRIDA KHALO opens one week today 29th March in Ayr Glasgow @breadartslaboratory 👏👏👏not to be missed!!! --- #soloshow #freddiethomas #fredbloggs #workingclasswomen #diversityinthearts #womeninthearts #5womenartists #womenshistorymonth #scottishartscene #mothersinthearts #wordpower #painting #mixedmedia #ayr #artistrun #exhibition #textinstallation #raisingwomensvoices #spiltmilk
CAROLINE KELLEY : MEMBER Q & A now live on the Spilt Milk blog. --- What drives you to continue to create work? I guess like a lot of artists I can’t imagine not making work. Most of the work I do I don’t publish or share with anyone – especially over the last six years. I don’t do it for money or recognition. Since 2017, I’ve been part of a network – the Arts Territory Exchange (aTE) – founded by Gudrun Filipska – and have corresponded and shared work through the postal service with Icelandic artist Kristin Scheving. This collaboration has been incredibly rewarding and raises the question – for me at least – of viewership or audience. In this instance, we are one another’s main (or only?) viewer or audience for the work. Just having one person to share ideas and work with is in some cases enough. @caroline.reyre --- Link to full interview in our bio. --- #blog #artistblog #artistterritoryexchange #makingmotherhoodvisible #photography #portrait #motherandson #blackandwhite #5womenartists #womenshistorymonth
CAROLINE KELLEY : MEMBER Q & A now live on the Spilt Milk blog. --- How has the experience of motherhood impacted your practice on an emotional/intellectual level? Has it made you view yourself/your work differently? Are there things that influence your work now that you didn't think about pre-kids? I’m much more settled now than I was before having my son. Traveling, journeying, was a function of my art practice as well as my work as an “itinerant” postdoctoral fellow-cum-visiting professor. My base of operations, so to speak, is much more geographically confined now. So becoming a mother has perhaps made me re-conceptualise this part of my practice. It’s also opened up avenues of artistic exploration that I hadn’t thought about much before. Despite being a languages professor I wasn’t especially interested in bilingual or multilingual theory much before having my son. Since he’s fully bilingual – a simultaneous bilingual – his father is French – and we’ve spoken to him in both French and English since he was born – I’ve become fascinated with code-switching and language acquisition among children. This is something I want to begin to explore more in my work. Of course, on a more practical level money is something I think about – and worry about – a lot more! @caroline.reyre --- Link to full interview in our bio. --- #women #mothers #artists #makingmotherhoodvisible #5womenartists #treetheory #carolinekelley #spiltmilkmember #internationalartists #womensupportingwomen #artistcollective
CAROLINE KELLEY : MEMBER Q & A now live on the Spilt Milk blog. --- Have you come up against specific challenges as an artist and mother? What were they and how have you navigated these challenges? I’ve found it especially challenging to focus and to finish projects I started since becoming a mother. As my practice has been based on research it’s more difficult to do this sort of work now. I’ve tried to embrace new approaches to art-making as a result. I found Sara Ruddick’s Maternal Thinking to be helpful in this effort, the conceptualisation of motherhood as a practice. Time management is also, of course, a challenge that I think I’m still struggling with. --- Link to full interview in our bio --- #blogger #carolinekelley #artistsoninstagram #mixedmedia #multidisciplinaryartist #drawing #installation #photography #motherhood #motherartist #makingmotherhoodvisible #spiltmilkartists #womenshistorymonth #5womenartists
Norah Neilson Gray (16 June 1882 – 27 May 1931) was a British artist of the Glasgow School and member of The Glasgow Girls. Gray was born at Carisbrook on West King Street in Helensburgh in 1882 to George Gray, a Glasgow ship owner, and his wife, Norah Neilson. During World War One, Gray volunteered as a nurse with the Scottish Women's Hospitals and was sent to France where she also found time to paint and sketch. After World War One Gray returned to her work as a portraitist, most commonly painting young women and children. Gray was chosen to be the first woman to join the influential hanging committee of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Gray's work is in several national collections however like many of her female counterparts, Gray was only recently recognised as the trailblazing Scottish painter she was. Above image: untitled mother and child, 1920's. . . #womenshistorymonth #norahneilsongray #modernscottishwomen #painters #portrait #scottishwomenartists #motherandchild #trailblazingwomen #5womenartists #womeninthearts
Norah Neilson Gray (16 June 1882 – 27 May 1931) was a British artist of the Glasgow School and member of The Glasgow Girls. Gray was born at Carisbrook on West King Street in Helensburgh in 1882 to George Gray, a Glasgow ship owner, and his wife, Norah Neilson. During World War One, Gray volunteered as a nurse with the Scottish Women's Hospitals and was sent to France where she also found time to paint and sketch. After World War One Gray returned to her work as a portraitist, most commonly painting young women and children. Gray was chosen to be the first woman to join the influential hanging committee of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Gray's work is in several national collections however like many of her female counterparts, Gray was only recently recognised as the trailblazing Scottish painter she was. . . . #womenshistorymonth #norahneilsongray #modernscottishwomen #painters #portrait #scottishwomenartists #motherandchild #trailblazingwomen #5womenartists #womeninthearts