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The Birth Rites Collection is the first and only collection of contemporary artwork dedicated to the subject of childbirth. The collection currently comprises of photography, sculpture, painting, wallpaper, drawing, new media, documentary and experimental film. It is hosted by the Department of Midwifery, part of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care at King’s College London
Griselda Pollock Seminar
VISUALISING EMBODIMENT: THE ART OF BIRTHING
Griselda Pollock comes to Birth Rites. Download the seminar free
Image of Helen Knowles and Althea Greenan ( Women’s Art Library) at Media CityUK announcing the winner of the competition for new works 2015.
We are pleased to announce that Birth Rites Collection has won some funding from the Goldsmiths Innovation Award to support the relaunch of the collection and mentoring of the business.
Student Midwives in the Home from Home suite at Salford University learning about homebirth practise surrounded by two works by Judy Chicago from her 1980's Birth Project.
Birth Rites Collection is now hosted by the Department of Midwifery, part of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care at King’s College London. We are extremely excited to have been so warmly welcomed by the Department of Midwifery.
The collection is displayed across Guy’s Campus in New Hunt's House, the Chantler SaIL Clinical Skills Centre, the Henriette Raphael Building and the Hodgkin Building.
BREAKING NEWS : LAUREN MCLAUGHLIN is awarded a grant from Creative Scotland to carry out a residency @ BRC and with the midiwfery school at Kings College, London. Lauren is the winner of the Competition for New work with the work pictured above 'A conflict of Interests'. http://www.laurenmclaughlin.co.uk/
ELEPHANT MAGAZINE and TALK- click here for the article
Is Childbirth the Ultimate Taboo? - A talk featuring BRC curator Helen Knowles with Iringó Demeter, Artist; Claire Cousins, Midwife. Moderated by editor-at-large Charlotte Jansen. Tickets available here 5th feb, 6-9pm @ Elephant West.
TOURS OF THE COLLECTION : Please meet at the entrance to New Hunts House. Tours will be led by Hermione Witlshire, artist and lecturer at the Royal College of Art and Helen Knowles, BRC Curator and Eleanor Featherby midiwfery student. To register for the tour or find out when the next ones are scheduled click here.
A one-day symposium and programme of performances and live art about women, carers, maternal health & gender. For the Oxytocin's second edition, Procreate Project (PCP) enters into a partnership with Birth Rites collection ( BRC) located at Guy’s Campus, King’s College, London (KCL) and the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care at King’s College London
MARCH 9th 2019. 10-6pm BOOK TICKETS
This years curatorial approach will look to unpick urgent issues that are still hardly discussed and represented in public contexts. These include; gender and rights in reproductive and maternal health and reflections around the use of the word 'Mother' and its historical connotations. This will be initiated through an artistic dialogue between artists reclaiming this word and their role as ‘mothers’ in their art practises and public lives, and LGBTQIA parents who have refused to be recognised in those terms and push for other forms of self identification, expression and care.