Jacquelyn Rixon
My practice revolves around issues of the feminine. I tend towards the use of detritus and the often overlooked and discarded ephemera of life like soap, blood and hair. The language of my work is essentially domestic; the washed, the stained the stitched.
Cleansed and Cared For
Our ablutions are the daily negotiations of mind and matter. The bodily rituals we engage in to keep ouselves safe, to fend off mortality (Cherry Smyth)
The Subversive Stitch
Has the pen or pencil ever dipped so deep in the blood of the human race as the needle (Olive Schreiner)
Period Styles
It has long been realised that every painter paints 'with his blood' (Heinrich Wolfflin)
Adam and Eve
'Menstrual blood is the single most potent magickal ingredient'