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.
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NEXT artist:
Alexandra
Steiner
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.
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