Sally Butcher
Infertile Platitudes of Embodied Emptiness: "Stop trying and it'll happen"(Drained) Sonogram 8/9
Archival inkjet digitised monoprint
2020
Sally Butcher is an artist, lecturer, researcher and (m)other in Birmingham, UK. Her interdisciplinary practice engages with domestic, maternal, and sexualised spheres of female subjectivity and embodiment. She is currently pursuing an AHRC funded PhD, “(In) Fertile Embodiment: Revealing the Invisibility of Infertility between the Medical and the Maternal through Feminist Art Practice”, at The School of Art & Cultural Studies, Birmingham City University, and The Centre for Reproduction Research, De Montfort University.
Her work has been exhibited in juried shows nationally and internationally and is held in public and private collections. Her Arts Council funded project: ‘Re.conceive: Infertility in the Maternal Visual Arts’ (20-21) saw her work feature in Elephant Magazine, Maternal Art magazine, Mothers Who Make, Artist Mother Podcast, Female Photographers, Coventry Biennial, and shortlisted for Jerwood Photoworks Award 2021 and Brixton Art Prize 2022. Her peer-reviewed essays are to be published in the anthology ‘An Artist and A Mother’ and in ‘The ART of Infertility: An Anthology of Patient Narrative and Art”, in 2023.
