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If you create or own art
concerning menstruation or menopause
and are interested in showing it on
thesepages (it's free!), contact MUM
Marie Claire magazine
(Italian edition) featured several
of the above artists in an article about
this
museum and menstruation in 2003. The
newspaper Corriere della Sera (Io Donna
magazine) (Milan, Italy) and the magazine
Dishy (Turkey) showed some of
the artists in 2005 in articles about this
museum.
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The Art of Menstruation at the
Museum of Menstruation and
Women's Health
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Detail
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The images I am
sending are the first piece (and
detail)
in a series of five called Olsem
Bilum. That means "Like a
Bilum"
and a bilum is a New Guinea string
bag. However, as in many other
languages,
the bag, in this case the bilum,
also represents the uterus. Each
of the
five pieces symbolises a time in
my (infertile) life from childhood
to post-menopausal
reality (I anticipated this in the
last quilt).
The first little
quilt (somewhere I have the sizes
but for
the moment an approximate is less
than a metre in height) is called
"L'enfant
ne savait pas qu'elle attendait
Godot." For those with no
French
this translates as "The Child Did
Not Know She Was Waiting for
Godot."The
piece is rife with symbolism from
the title through to the imagery
and the
construction of the quilt.
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The
artist, Lorraine Lamothe,
who lives in
the Solomon Islands, writes
this about herself,
"I am Australian but born in
Canada in 1950. I have degrees in
forestry and now art (I am a PhD
candidate). My art medium is
textiles.
Much of my work (primarily woven
but also hooked) has concentrated
on insects,
where I use them as a metaphor for
prejudices and preconceived
notions.
Some of my work, mostly my quilts,
has focussed on the personal and
familial.
This personal has included the
issue of infertility. I have lived
and worked
overseas (in Papua, New Guinea,
Nepal and now the Solomon Islands)
for most
of my adult life."
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Next
artist: Rita
Lee
See all the
artists in the links in
the left-hand
column.
If you create or own art
concerning menstruation or
menopause and
are interested in showing it on
thesepages (it's free!), contact
MUM
See
also
Bea Nettles' art The
Moonsisters
© 2005 Harry
Finley. It is illegal to reproduce
or distribute
work on this Web site in any
manner or medium without written
permission
of the author. Please report
suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org
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