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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