A research project investigating menopause exploring fine art methodologies as tools to re imagine the way we both experience and describe menopause. The aim is to extend existing understandings of the menopause through the collective convergence of experts from creative and scholarly disciplines.
To provide an opportunity to work collectively and creatively to broaden and deepen the perception of the menopause and to start a process that will dispel ignorance and reduce fear for women in their menopausal years. It is a place for sharing knowledge, creative practice and generating critical thought.
Organised by Beverley Carruthers and Jane Woollatt, this project started in 2016 with the production of a film In Plain Sight Unseen which explored a ritual for the last day of menstruation. This was followed by the creation of numerous art works, artist residencies and public sharing’s and events.
In Plain Sight
Directed by Beverley Carruthers and Jane Woollatt, 2017
Reinventing, Rethinking and Re-presenting Menopause Conference, Crassh, Cambridge University - 29 September 2018