Re-framing Menopause

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.

Conferences

Reinventing, Rethinking and Re-presenting Menopause Conference, Crassh, Cambridge University - 29 September 2018

• Conveners: Beverley Carruthers and Jane Woollatt
• Papers:  Artistic Practice in relation to Menopause - Jane Woollatt
• Bauboos; Collaborative thinking and making in relation to menopause - Beverley Carruthers.

Publications

• Legacy of Reinventing, Rethinking and Re-presenting Menopause Conference – Edited by Beverley Carruthers and Jane Woollatt

Residencies

• Artist residency at Metal Culture Southend - March 2018
• She is Grieving She Is Furious, Metal Culture Southend - September 2019

• Artist talk at Women of the World x UAL Thinking – Beverley Carruthers and Jane Woollatt, hosted by Jude Kelly - 11 March 2019

In conversation

• Investigating Female Ageing Through Creative Practice: In Conversation with Rosy Martin and Kay Goodridge and Beverley Carruthers and Jane Woollatt – 27 March 2021

Workshops

• Investigating Female Ageing Through Creative Practice: Artist Workshop with Beverley Carruthers and Jane Woollatt -  3 April 2021