ABOUT
b.1979, UK
Sally Butcher is an artist, researcher, and (m)other, based in Birmingham, UK. Her interdisciplinary feminist practice draws on lived experience to engage with spheres of subjectivity and embodiment. She is currently completing her AHRC funded practice-based PhD (In) Fertile Embodiment: Revealing the Invisibility of Infertility between the Medical and Maternal through Feminist Art Practice, exploring archive, language and bodily “data” as modes of enquiry (across the School of Art, Birmingham City University and Centre for Reproduction Research, De Montfort University, UK).
Sally was recently selected for an artist residency Visible Bodies with Feed at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2024) and awarded a research placement at Wellcome Collection, London, working with the (Mis)Conceptions project to devise Reproductive Histories & Material Cultures event (2024). Presenting her research regularly, she convened Picturing the Unseen: Grief and Labour in and out of Motherhood symposium with Hettie Judah and Melanie Stidolph (2024) and co-created the Maternal Bodies Network (2023) and its first international conference. She shows with socially engaged platforms such as Procreate Project, Coventry Biennial, Spilt Milk Gallery and Museum of Motherhood, and her work is held in collections nationally and internationally. Recent writings are published in MAMSIE: Studies in the Maternal journal (2024) and in anthologies An Artist and a Mother (2023) and Infertilities: A Curation (2023).
Sally Butcher is an artist, researcher, and (m)other, based in Birmingham, UK. Her interdisciplinary feminist practice draws on lived experience to engage with spheres of subjectivity and embodiment. She is currently completing her AHRC funded practice-based PhD (In) Fertile Embodiment: Revealing the Invisibility of Infertility between the Medical and Maternal through Feminist Art Practice, exploring archive, language and bodily “data” as modes of enquiry (across the School of Art, Birmingham City University and Centre for Reproduction Research, De Montfort University, UK).
Sally was recently selected for an artist residency Visible Bodies with Feed at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2024) and awarded a research placement at Wellcome Collection, London, working with the (Mis)Conceptions project to devise Reproductive Histories & Material Cultures event (2024). Presenting her research regularly, she convened Picturing the Unseen: Grief and Labour in and out of Motherhood symposium with Hettie Judah and Melanie Stidolph (2024) and co-created the Maternal Bodies Network (2023) and its first international conference. She shows with socially engaged platforms such as Procreate Project, Coventry Biennial, Spilt Milk Gallery and Museum of Motherhood, and her work is held in collections nationally and internationally. Recent writings are published in MAMSIE: Studies in the Maternal journal (2024) and in anthologies An Artist and a Mother (2023) and Infertilities: A Curation (2023).
