Image: Sonia and Florenca - portrait from the series ‘One Day Young’ by Jenny Lewis. Courtesy of the artist and Birth Rites Collection.

We have partnered with the newly launched Tommy’s National Centre for Preterm Birth Research and Imperial College London to run a series of participatory commissions over the next 3-5 years. These new artworks will eventually become part of the Birth Rites Collection.

Birth Rites Collection will facilitate 3-5 artists to collaborate with men and women in the community, up and down the UK, to explore important ideas connected with preterm birth.

The projects and resulting works will help to expand on the ground-breaking research that the team at Tommy’s and the five collaborating universities are carrying out.

If you are an artist / artist collective and are interested in getting involved in this project, please fill out a preliminary expression of interest. The deadline for initial expressions of interest is 30 April 2024.

A budget of £5400 is available for the first commission. Ten artists will be selected to develop their proposals from the initial expression of interest and a small fee will be paid for this.

Find out more and submit an expression of interest