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 these pages (it's
free!), contact MUM
© 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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