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My Breastfeeding Journey CWR Radio Wednesday 28th April, 6pm
Coventry City of Breastfeeding launches with the finished work of the eight mother’s who took part in the Holding Time Storytelling Workshops run by Voluntary Arts producer and writer, Rachel New. The work takes many forms, some poems, some prose, and are sometimes tinged with anger or sadness but always rooted in joy and wonder. ….read more
First Holding Time Portraits installed at Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton
After the pilot of the Holding Time Project, funded in part by Arts Council England Lottery Awards and supported by a residency at Brighton MET and Fabrica Gallery, the first mother portraits to be installed on permanent display in a Post Natal Ward were hung last week and can now be seen by every birthing mother….read more
Coventry City of breastfeeding
March – July 2021
Breastfeeding will take centre stage this summer when The Holding Time Project comes to Coventry. This multi-disciplinary, multi-channel, multi-media art project brings will be co-created by mothers, as part of a lottery funded initiative by Visual Artist Lisa Creagh……read more
Feb – April 2021
Voluntary Arts in collaboration with BBC CWR Radio will be hosting creative, oral storytelling workshops for mothers who may or may not have breastfed but who have a story to tell. The workshops will be run by Rachel New, a radio producer and writer…..read more
Breastfeeding interviews on zoom
January – July 2021
Mothers will be asked for their views on breastfeeding, whether positive or negative. These interviews, conducted by the artist will be edited and released on social media as 5 minute VLOGS to accompany the Coventry City of Culture Holding Time Project events. To view existing VLOGS from the project visit www.youtube.com/c/holdingtime
Monday 22nd March – Saturday 27th March 2021
Breastfeeding mothers are sought for a photo shoot during the the launch in late Spring. This photoshoot is intended to raise awareness of the diversity and range of mothers breastfeeding in Coventry and will be a live exhibition throughout the project. Mothers are invited to pose for portraits by the artist at a temporary covid safe studio at Arcadia Gallery in the last week of March 2021. The resulting portraits will be shown at University Hospital Coventry and Warwick (date TBC).
Royal brompton hospital exhibition, 2018
Royal Brompton Hospital was host to Holding Time from April- June 2018. Part of this exhibition is a specially commissioned breastfeeding portrait of Sabrina Byrne, mother of Isabelle, a hospital patient. …read more
Royal brompton commission for expressing room
As part of a refurbishment of the expressing room on the Rose Ward, where critically ill babies are cared for, RB&H, the Arts Charity based at Royal Brompton Hospital commissioned a breastfeeding portrait of Sabrina Byrne, mother to Isabelle, a baby with Cystic Fibrosis. An animates sequence of Sabrina offering medicine to her child before feeding was created and from this, a still image was chosen for the expressing room….read more
In conversation: lisa creagh and lucila newell
ONCA Gallery hosted a conversation between Lucila Newell and Lisa Creagh to discuss some of the themes and ideas of the Holding Time work. The event was very well attended by parents, Bloggers, Health professionals and maternal researchers from Brighton, London and beyond….read more
ONCA gallery, exhibition and breastfeeding hub, 2018
ONCA Gallery was an opportunity to test out the idea of a Breastfeeding Hub, to gather together voices, show the mother interviews and start a conversation about the structural and cultural barriers to breastfeeding. This exhibition also featured a workshop and a conversation with Lucila Newell, Academic, Mentor and Writer of several BLOG posts for the website.
In conversation: lisa creagh and christiane monarchi, photomonitor editor 2018
Fabrica Gallery was the first ever attempt to show the Holding Time animation as a four screen installation using projectors and screens. This opportunity also included a one to one conversation with Christiane Monarchi, Editor of PhotoMonitor.
Fabrica gallery residency and installation, 2018
Fabrica Gallery was the first ever attempt to show the Holding Time animation as a four screen installation using projectors and screens. This opportunity also included a one to one conversation with Christiane Monarchi, Editor of PhotoMonitor.