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
"Mary Mary"
2000, Mixed media assemblage, 50 cm diameter
Artist: P. J. Speakman,
B.A.(Hons) Art &Design, P.G.C.E. University of Reading, Hampshire, U.K.
Marie Claire magazine (Italian edition) featured
this art work and several other MUM artists in an article
about this museum and menstruation in 2003.
Ms. Speakman writes,
Using pristine, scented sanitary towels ("for light flow days"),
cotton buds, tampons, pills and mirrors, the heirloom image of Our Lady
is framed in a glorious corona of feminine essentials. Hygiene and virtue
are two of the issues in this piece. White and blue of sanitary wear (ever
seen red stuff in a feminine hygiene commercial?) are also the colours
associated with the Virgin Mary. The only red in the image is the ink of
the Elvis lyrics written on each towel.
"Hunk of Love" lusting after a "little mamma" who
is being "a stinge" with her love. Tribute to Woman as a "beehive,
filled with honey to the top." Playing hard to get and being depicted
as a commodity - a consumable, almost. But he "ain't greedy, baby";
all he wants is all she's got!
Mary is an icon of love but not as a real woman - she can't bleed.
She can only weep her eternal sorrow, and is adored for it. That's not
asking much, is it?
Commissions undertaken.
Contact: volere.volare@virgin.net
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NEXT artist: Melina
Szapiro
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
© 2001-2004 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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