UHCW, Coventry
On permanent display at UHCW are seven mother portraits form the Holding Time series taken during the project which ran 2020-2021 to coincide with Coventry City of Culture 2021. These works feature Coventry and Warwickshire mothers who gave birth at the hospital feeding their infants. All of the mothers featured also have been interviewed about their personal breastfeeding experiences and these insights can be found via links to the project Youtube channel.
An interview with Professor Debra Bick, head of Warwick University’s Maternity Themed Clinical Trials Unit reminds us of the need for policy change in the area of breastfeeding across the UK.
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The Holding Time Project brought photographic portraits, animations and mothers’ stories to Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in a major exhibition programme running from November 2023 to February 2026. Developed by artist Lisa Creagh with mothers from Cheshire and Merseyside and supported by Improving Me, the exhibition celebrated the diversity of breastfeeding experiences while…
Half a Million Views and Rising
The Holding Time Project is celebrating an extraordinary milestone, with mothers’ stories reaching audiences around the world.
Originally commissioned by Improving Me, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Women’s Health and Maternity Programme, the project uses photography, film and creative storytelling to amplify women’s lived experiences of breastfeeding, birth and motherhood.
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Exploring Breastfeeding Challenges in Bradford Podcast Episodes
The Bradford season of the Holding Time podcast brings together a diverse range of mothers’ stories about breastfeeding, adoption, pregnancy, free-birthing, donor milk, preterm babies and birth trauma. Co-created with mothers, local infant feeding teams and community partners, the series examines breastfeeding as part of the wider experience of motherhood and maternal wellbeing in Bradford.
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