First Spilt Milk of the year

EDINBURGH-BASED social enterprise, Spilt Milk Gallery CIC will open their first group exhibition of the year with a family-friendly preview event on Saturday 5 March 2-5pm.

The event also marks the beginning of a permanent tenancy at Edinburgh Palette, made possible with an award of £25,000 from First Port earlier this year.

The funding will enable the body to deliver a programme of exhibitions and artist residencies for artist mothers, as well as community engagement activities for local families. Spilt Milk has grown rapidly over the past two years with the rise of accessible online working allowing them to reach wider audiences and grow their artist membership network worldwide.

Recognising that mothers/carers have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic, Spilt Milk will “continue to harness the power of art for social change with accessible and inclusive creative opportunities”.

The exhibition brings together a diverse grouping of international w*men and mother artists whose work responds to the notion of collective healing. With work spanning a variety of disciplines, the exhibition provides an opportunity for the retelling of w*men's stories which have historically been told from the perspective of men.

The artworks explore lost maternal lineages, create space for shared grief, represent family outside the binary and act as a catalyst for progressive conversations toward intersectional equity.

WHOSE STORY IS IT? 6-26 March

Open daily 11am-5pm (12-5pm Sundays) 3rd Floor Gallery, Edinburgh Palette, St Margaret's House, EH7 6AE

3. Siusan Patterson, It’s Fine, Acrylic and cotton thread on canvas. 4. Shweta Bist, At Times, It Isn't Perfectly Clear Who's Mother to Whom, Photography.

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1. Jen McGowan, Nuclear Family, digital collage. 2. Kirsty Whiten, Planted Women (Open Field), watercolour and graphite on paper.

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