NEW EXHIBITION // Nurture

Nurture: An exhibition about motherhood and caregiving

Friday 21 March – Saturday 24th May 2025

We are pleased to announce our new exhibition Nurture at Woodend Gallery this spring. The exhibition shows the works of mothers who have yet to have the opportunity to display work due to their caregiving duties.
The open call will sit in companionship with a curated display of artworks, featuring the Feeding Chair, a collaborative artwork and infant feeding seat, created as part of Feed – an arts-based project that promotes inclusive, sustainable approaches to infant feeding and public space, led by the public art group In Certain Places at the University of Central Lancashire.

The Feed Chair includes resources built into it to make breast or bottle-feeding babies and children more comfortable and accessible in public spaces. It also acts as an information point and resource for parents and carers, including interviews and talks. This is the first time the Feeding Chair has visited a seaside town and
with it comes a dialogue that’s much needed in Scarborough. The chair is also accompanied by the Floor Flag, a companion piece developed by Sally Sutherland in response to conversations with infant feeding activists, which provides an inviting space for gathering, thinking, talking and connecting. A co-created soundscape by local poet Charlotte Oliver, made with Scarborough’s community, also accompanies the exhibition.

The artists who feature in the open call are: Alia Gargum, Charlotte Warne Thomas, Christine Benson, Ella Calvert, Frankie Cluney, Hairy Triangle, Hayley Gibbs, Jacqui Barrowcliffe, Jade E Gilbert, Jen Workman, Joanna Jowett, Kübra Müjde, Laura Fooks, Leah Stewart, Nicola Garvey, Rebecca Riley, Rebecca Snow, Rhiannon Lewando, Jessica Finch and Sylwia Ciszewska-Peciak.

Nurture shines a spotlight on untold stories about motherhood, and celebrates care and the lived experience of what it means to be a mother at its heart.

We are so excited to be bringing you these workshops in response to this exhibition:

• ‘Milk Report’ screening in collaboration with Scarborough Film Festival on the 23rd March
• ’Nurturing words’ with poet Charlotte Oliver on the 6th April
• ‘Make a flag-Take a Flag’ with textile artist Hayley Mills-Styles on the 25th April 

This project has been developed in partnership with In Certain Places and the University of Central Lancashire. Made possible with funding from Arts Council England.