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
Art of Jacqueliyn Rixon
Below: "Encrusted Lace" (menstrual blood and glass beads on
antique lace) and silk
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Below: "After Vesalius 1543"
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MORE art of Jacquelyn Rixon
NEXT artist: Isa
Sanz
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Jacquelyn Rixon's - the artist's - statement:
I incorporate notions of the visceral: blood-staining - the alluring
body. Mine is a public show of things deemed impolite by my society. Menstruation
is to be dealt with quietly still.
For years I have created with soap and hair, enthralled by the materials
and their implications.I began to use my menstrual blood more recently,
acknowledging that I entered my forties with menses intact, knowing I'll
leave without them. My aim is always to produce work that is beautiful
and enticing; to draw in the viewer before the materiality of the piece
is revealed and a reaction provoked. This play of seduction and subsequent
repulsion interests me greatly.
All art and the artist's statement are copyright 2009 Jacquelyn
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NEXT artist: Isa
Sanz
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
© 2009 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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