WHY AM I SO HOT?
PV 24th June - 6 - 8PM
Open: 12 - 4 PM Friday-Sunday between 20th - 29th June
Curated by Alicia Pivaro & Justine Hounam
This exhibition playfully and powerfully explores the Menopause is all its’ complexity. Until recently considered a taboo, the last ten years has been a flurry of books, tv shows and articles about this important, transformative stage of women lives despite the claim by Ursula K Le Guin in 1976 ‘the menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable’ (The Space Crone).
Now us Crones are celebrating and sharing what the menopause brings – beyond the hot flushes, fury, brain fog it also offers liberation and opportunities for radical change. Not giving a shit is very empowering.
Work by 16 artists shares this extreme range of emotions, thoughts, mental and physical symptoms with humour and honesty.
B.A Adeyemo, Alicia Pivaro, Anne Isaksson, Carolyn Whittaker, Diane J Rogan, Donna Poingdestre, Helen Brough, Jacqueline Rana, Jane Woollatt, Jennifer Moore, Justine Hounam, Louise Richards, Maria Kramer, Rebekah Dean, Veronika Seifert
Works: Right (from door) to Left
I Am Here, Alicia Pivaro, 20 x A4 Poem Installation and film
The things you do to me, Carolyn Whittaker, One of series of 3. 2025
Discomfort Blanket, Jane Woollatt, £700
Hi-Vis jackets, Louise Richards £25 each
Woman, Jennifer Moore, POA, 2025
I Am Here, Alicia Pivaro, Poem, 20 x A4 Installation and film
In memoriam I, A. B. Adeyemo
Menopause Operation Game, Louise Richards £250
Firelight, Diane J Rogan £800
Cataclysm #1 & 2, Helen Brough, Oil on aluminum, 50 x 100cm, 2021, £1100
Sooper, Dooper, Looper, Veronika Seifert
Unknown Journey (Bloodless Dance), Jacqueline Rana, Mixed Paper, Acrylic – Dressmaker Pins
Battered, Justine Hounam, wooden stool seat with gloss paint, £700
My Menopause Made Me Rampant, Rebekah Dean, Acrylic Paint on Pine Board, 2020 £400
Hormones, Maria Kramer
Fire Truck, Helen Brough, Oil on wood, 30 x 30 cm, 2022, £350
In memoriam II, A.B Adeyemo
Untitled, Donna Poingdestre, £500
Nocturnal, Anne Eva Kristina
In memoriam III, A.B Adeyemo, In memoriam II