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Claire will be a panel member discussing Midwifery Art and Culture at The Royal College of Art's Oxytocin: Birthing the World conference on 3rd June 2017.
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In March 2017 Claire presented 'Controlling Birth' at the International Women's Day event Women in the City at Leeds Beckett University. Further information can be found on the Home page under the Navigation bar.
Claire will be a panel member discussing Midwifery Art and Culture at The Royal College of Art's Oxytocin: Birthing the World conference on 3rd June 2017.
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NativityHub at Union 105, Chapeltown
NativityHub at Union 105 was an interdisciplinary birthing hub for women and their families, artists and birthworkers in and around the Chapeltown area of Leeds who came together to learn, teach, collaborate and play.
Bringing together my arts and midwifery background for a commissioned project for East Street Arts, activities ran on an ongoing basis throughout autumn 2015 and spring 2016.
NativityHub has it's own blog here for further information and details of the project.
Update August 2014.
In 2011 I embarked on a BSc in Midwifery Studies. I complete this year and have accepted a position with the Yorkshire Storks, a collective of Independent Midwives. I'm very excited about this, and aim to continue to research, make work and write about all things birth related while I begin to practice my new art of midwifery later this year!! See http://yorkshirestorks.co.uk/ for info.
Lilla's Birthing and the accompanying artist's book Portrait of a Labour will be exhibited in the HOME FROM HOME exhibition, part of Leeds International Artists Book Fair in March 2011
Please see http://abcarchive.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/home-from-home.html for more information.
I will be presenting a paper
“Lilla’s Birthing: Re-appropriating the subjective experience of birthing in visual art”
at the conference Mothering and Motherhood in the 21st Century: Research and Activism, February 18-19, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal
organised by the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, Canada (MIRCI) And Centre for Research in Anthropology, Portugal (CRIA) see link http://www.motherhoodinitiative.org/
