The Artists

Showcasing 91 intimate artworks by 87 women...

The door was painted by Michelle Buggy - the founder of InformEmotion and creator of the Red Tepee Project - as part of Bleeding Art Bleeding Heart -
See www.birthingartbirthingheart.com/bleedingartbleedingheart

I created this image after I received all the canvas pieces. The depth of investment and offering by the participating artists inspired my creative process.

This piece is the culmination of all 87 individual journey. It integrates the many faces of the feminine , creating a new archetype and promoting a new paradigm for women.

The art work speaks of connection to self , earth, womb, heart, creation, new life, pain, mindfulness, shedding, a doorway, holding, letting go, releasing, intuition, rest, mother earth's womb, the sexual organs & fertility.
The reflection of cycles include the cycle of ... 13 moons in a woman bleeding year, 28 days in a woman's ovulation process, aligned with the moon cycle & 9 calendar months / 10 lunar months of a pregnancy. The vaginal shaped openings reflect portals of which a woman can connect into her 7 charka doorways & extend herself spiritually

Side Door Panel

Michelle Buggy

Janelle Da Silva

Shae Leviston - Reid
'Moon Veil'

Side Door Panel

Fyona MitaxaI am aged 48 and peri menapausal. My process when creating tis art piece was fast and intense,initially murky and unclear but unfolded as a clear internal metaphor.
My inspiration was the interior of a pomegranate - deeply symbolic of the depth of my creative expression as a healing journey of empowerment releasing me from the deeply wounded female line from whom I spring. The darkness took me by surprise as my usual practice is subtle,light-filled and full of colour. The highlights appeared at the last - the gold -the treasures uncovered in the depths of my feminine soul. Creativity the juice, the seeds express the fecund possibilities I embody. The pomegranate was the symbol I chose for my croning ceremony,through it I made a deep commitment to my creative unfolding.

Lucy Pierce -This piece sprung directly from the drum journey I participated in as a part of the preparation for the red tepee project, the rhythm of the drum taking me on a journey deep within my body, to surprise and enlighten me with what lay beneath.I have come to know this woman as the One Who Knows and I endeavour to listen to her when I feel lost, and I feel she is birthing me home. She is strong and robust, deeply powerful and infinitely soft, she is her own authority and heeds her instinct with implacable care and fierce wisdom. She responds to life from the wild blood that remains intact in her, flowing through her by the ancient pathways, her great love, her hunger for truth, her reclamation of her power as woman. With her as I journeyed into my womb, her den, were snake and wolf. Wolf led me into an ancient forest of fur trees. In my arms there was a dead baby, I buried her in the damp earth, wrapping her in fern fronds and wild flowers, I covered her with the soft earth and lay three large stones on the ground over where her body lay. I stood and began to dance, an elation flowing through my body, a surrendering over, a deep letting go. As I danced I felt a skin shedding, a pelt peeling from my body, I wriggled myself free and saw at my feet, an old and withered one, She who had grieved since the beginning of time, her pain etched on the dry pelt of her skin. Lovingly I took her and wrapped her too in fern fronds and wild flowers, I buried her in the Earth and again placed the three stones upon the ground where her body lay. Again I stood and danced for her. So light and exuberant I felt, so free of these two stories I had carried beyond time, not of this life but deeply lived in the body. I think she was showing me how we can all give our pain back to the vast body of the Earth, She will take it from us and help us to heal, we will be renewed and transformed. This vision felt so strange to me, and such a gift, I had to share it as it was.
I am a 40 year old menstruating mother of three and an artist, endeavouring to be guided by the wisdom of the womb.
http://lucypierce.com/ http://soulskinmusings.blogspot.com.au/

Ember Fairbairne-Ramsay

Panel 1

Monique Buggy

Eve Drage This image came from A womb drum journey: a dance with my kundalini serpents. In the core of my being - my womb - frequency, rhythm, fire, women, connection, love, sacredness , beauty, life and great mystery .

Tracy Marcuzzi

Anonymous
My piece was designed in my 38th year of life. It is a tree that resembles my vagina as a firmly rooted (haha pardon the pun), grounded work of art that has birthed 4 babies, 3 living. xx
The plush frushia walls of my vagina lead to a series of branches that extend to my ripe ovaries that i feel are still so very fertile and full of life today even though my family is complete. My womb space is represented by a pink doile that is indulgent and expansive yet delicate and vulnerable. My use of fabrics represents my love for fabric and its relationship to my fibrous feminine. I loved creating this piece as it is such a true representation of exactly where I'm at and who i am. xx

Tarnie Blint

Jenny King

Lisa Hodge
Lisa Hodge –
My womb speaks to me,
Of deep knowledge mighty & deep,
The key to the path lays within my heart

My womb speaks to me
Of women past
Ancestral medicine
Inherited debt.

My womb speaks to me ,
The love of my unborn
The child of two
And the pain for the one not bound for this world.

My womb speaks to me
Of heaven & earth
Cyclical seeds
Weeping the colour red

Panel 2

Melissa McFarlane

Nicole Hulme

Jane Sarkady

Stephanie Jane Pollock

Jenny Mack

Amber Diss

Eloise Victoria Phi Sha

Panel 3

Erin Cresswell

Anonymous

Seen from the eye of my womb, the image represents a spiral of miracles, the conceptions of my womb, some to life some to death, and the completed journey when my fertility ceased. At the time I did this piece I was in peri menopause, at 55yold

Seneka Cohen

Luna White

Jules White

Courtney Gale

Julie Dyer
This piece speaks of the ongoing cycles of all parts of our lives

Panel 4

Anonymous
The moons changing aspect was a big theme for me and so I wanted to include 28 moons transitioning from new to full. I tried to paint the outline of the fig - which is a symbol of womb healing for me in my journey to heal cervical dysplasia in my early 30's. The silver spiral is the journey of my children and the golden glitter signifies their arrival in my womb space.

I was 42 when I painted it and still menstruating but maybe experiencing first stages of menopause.

Janelle Da Silva

Amy Hall - a personal sharing & vision for manifestation
'As fall descends upon my mountain town, I feel the spring arising in your home. I am settling into preparation to cleanse my womb, and body for a seed of life to take root this winter. It feels wonderful to send an image of a healthy uterus across the earth as a prayer to nurture my dream, and share my creative energy with the world.. Creating life being a masterpiece I have been wishing for all my life. I have been passionate about educating young people about menstruation for a long time. Wishing that my mother had known the things I learned in my experiences, about bleeding, and could have shared with me at my first blood, how one doesn't need to catch the blood with a plastic backed synthetic pad...and all the healing herbs we can use to ease pain, and cramping, and not take pharmaceutical muscle relaxants as default. In my early 20s, I spent years painting with my moon blood every month.'

Peta Melanie Doherty

Meg Lloyd

Simone Darling

Keir Osborne

Panel 5

Melinda Whyman
'Priestess of the Moon'
I was 35 when I created my artpiece, Mother of 4 children, and on the cusp of stepping back out into the world with my work as a Menstrual Health Educator, Shamanic Midwife, Healer, Natural Fertility Awareness Guide, Birthkeeper, Women's Mysteries Teacher, Celebration Day for Girls Facilitator.

Lauren Woodman

Katja Nedoluha

Ingrid Petterson

Katie Gane

Rebecca Smith

Quill HowardFor me the process of creating an artwork for 'the Red Tepee' was a wonderful. A slowing down and connection with my own menstrual cycle. Connection with other woman (my sisters) and a letting go exercise of 'creating something beautiful and worth sharing,'

Through this work I am getting in touch with my own inner wisdom, listening to an inner knowing that i often ignore. And understanding the connection we all have with the moon and the entire planet. There was a real warmth and softness in the creating of my dry felted piece. I am grateful for the platform the project has created, the sharing and connection and personal growth. And what it offers to others woman through sharing it. Thank you so much Michelle Buggy for your love and dedication to woman honouring them selves.
When I created this piece I was 33 years old and have 2 sons, this project allowed me the space and time to focus on myself momentarily within my role as working mother wife. Quill Howard

Panel 6

Kerryanne Ansari

Dipika Delmenico-Voss

Belinda Claveria

Jade Weatherill - Is a passionate Creative Arts Therapist http://www.skillpages.com/jade.weatherill

Sarah Hancock

Bec Agg

Kirstie Pearce

Panel 7

Katherine Cunningham
My artwork is a sigil of creation, intending to bring energy to birth another sacred space, http://www.livinggently.com.au/OUR-Womb-Temple.php
Our Womb Temple, the sacredness within. Please, come and join in!
As a still strong menstruating woman, 43, gathering my power to truly create the next chapter of Me!

Kate Dumaresq-Watt

Katja Nedoluha

Ruth Gale

Janoel Liddy

Shona Rich

Nymh Harper

Panel 8

Ange Tydd

Anonymous maiden

Pam Marshall

Sha'na Shean -

https://www.facebook.com/13MoonsBloodMysteries

Holly Luna - Nation -
Lunation is a Company with an ethical philosophy to Real World, Conscious Living. Hollie B. is a Witch, an Indigo Adult; a Mother, Wife and Ceremony Woman. She follows a Woman's Path of Light, where the Divine Spirit is alive and True. Everything and Everyone is Sacred. Hollis B. believes that the more that we Two Legged Peoples DO re-member honouring of the Real World and its Peoples, the more bless-ed we BE.

Grace Natakhan

Anonymous
My piece depicts the psychosis that I experienced post rape trauma. It
depicts darkness, chaos and void. It's what I saw when I journeyed
into my womb during that time - a place of rawness, liminality, pain,
dormancy and possibility. Life and death are entwined, there is a
choice, there is the process of healing and love.

I am 26 years old

Panel 9

Alison Dunne

Sharyn Smith

Judy Clark

Lyndelle Anson
Having never put brush to canvas before, this has been very difficult on many layers.

I have named it 'Holding on to Potential through Loss'

It is the story of women throughout time holding on to the abundant potential of their wombs while journeying through miscarriage and stillbirth. We are all born and die being held by the great dark mother in all her magnificence. I honour my journeys and the sisters who held me throughout them. May all women be blessed with such holding. Blessed be.

Natasha Colchester

Jen Jen

Leisa Gittings - Holy Woman

Panel 10

Ember Fairbairn-Ramsay

Chelsea Mc NabbsThe fabric was my Nanas, it's a placenta built from my nanas fabric, the most nurturing space for me.

I am a birth support for other women and deeply honour this process. I'm in full motherhood. My children range from 3-10. I am coming to terms with not ever holding a child in my womb again.

Wilani van Wyk-Smit
This artwork is a reflection of us as women - all shapes, sizes, colours - celebrating life in our magical and unique bodies.
For me the womb symbolise the inherent creativity all women possess. It is a void, a cave, a chalice, a vessel - the bearer of life.
This unseen part inside us connects us to our past and all the mothers that came before. It grows the promise of tomorrow in all our daughters, our children, our future.
- Wilani van Wyk-Smit
Wilani is a designer and an artist, a mother of twins and a lover of creation.
www.wildeye.com.au

Kylie Cools
I sat with my canvas for a month with no idea what or how to create as an expression of my relationship to my womb.
Then I arrived at Karijini National Park in WA & walked to the Circular Pool in Dales Gorge. I was struck by the immense beauty of the cliffs, with the feeling of being held in the womb of mother earth. I swam. I lay on the rocks and gazed at the myriad of ochre colours. I felt held and loved and inspired. I created. My womb is the place of creation. Of being. Of life. Of love.—Kylie Cools

Nancy Buggy

Joanna Dadd

Kaggi Valentine
I was 41 or 42 when I made the piece, working in Women's Mystery area, home birth mother of 3 children.

Panel 11

Branka Addlington
A Yoga Teacher - Jan Juc Yoga

Anonymous
My piece explores my journey with terminations, many miscarriages and finally three live births.

Nicole Ahava

Michelle Buggy

Sarah Miller

Christine Scanlon

Melissa Quinn

Panel 12

Jacqui Dreesens

Louise Poon

Samantha Johnson

Brooke Burton

Natalia Iacons

Simone Broekman

Elizabeth Criner

An artist asked me about my intent posting all the vagina art work... so I thought I would clarify. Although I have been posting a lot of art work around the vagina, the art work for the Red Tepee is about the Womb.

The Red Tepee is to celebrate the feminine centre of women rather than the sexualisation of women and her external genitals. Our work is about her inner self and inner journey of woman. The vagina has been used in art work in the past to expose the true intimacy of women, and feel .... and we are taking it even deeper.... into the centre...
However if there has been a depiction of a vagina in the works it is representing a past of their womanly self.