Join artist Ciara Rodgers for a relaxed, welcoming workshop where parents, caregivers and babies are invited to come together to share real experiences of feeding (breast/bottle) in public: good, bad, and everything in between. Through simple, creative art activities, we’ll build a collective visual map of the city, marking the most supportive spots, unexpected safe havens, and places that still have work to do.
Inspired by the spirit of artists like Postpartum Punk London band Pushy Pushy Pushy, who challenge the idea that artists can’t also be mothers through their music, this workshop embraces care, creativity, and everyday resistance in public space.
No booking required, drop in anytime. The space will be set up to accommodate babies and caregivers, with comfortable seating and desks for making and mapping and of course - feeding! Come as you are, stay as long as you like, and add your voice to a shared conversation about care, visibility, and the city.
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Biography:
Ciara Rodgers is a visual artist based between Cork and Waterford and works across drawing, installation, performance, and Polaroid photography. Her practice explores the entanglement of body and building, tracing how power, gender, and capitalism shape our physical and psychological experience of space. Through walking and material reconfiguration, she constructs fragile yet defiant assemblages and situations that expose the quiet contradictions and resistances embedded within urban environments. Looking between what shelters, confines or controls, Rodgers’ work occupies the threshold between the poetic and the political, the embodied and the architectural.
She holds a First-Class Honours MA in Art & Process from MTU CCAD (2018). A studio member of Backwater Artists Group and Cork Printmakers, she was awarded a Visual Art Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland in 2020 and an Agility Award in 2021. Her work has been exhibited widely in Ireland and internationally, and often unfolds through collaboration and site-responsive research. Solo presentations include Folly | Façade at GOMA, Waterford (2024), Green Mouth at SIRIUS, Cork (2023), A City of Beautiful Nonsense at Studio 12, Cork (2022), Monuments II at Garter Lane, Waterford (2020) and Monuments of Abandoned Futures at LHQ Gallery, Cork County Council (2019).
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