Female Genital Mutilation

I have been invited by the Orchid Project to collaborate on a project to raise interest and understanding around the need to end the destruction of young women’s genitals via cutting and stitching in the most brutal of fashions. We are creating a series of vulva castings of women who were cut as children and have not yet been able to access reconstructive surgeries. It is hoped these casts will help to demonstrate what these girls endure and what affect it has on their health and their lives.

I am also collaborating with Aurora Almadori, a surgeon who offers help and hope to these women via her pro bono surgical interventions.

We are in the casting stages. Please consider participating…

Please email me if you were cut as a child and you would like to know more about the opportunity participate in this groundbreaking project.

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The Great Wall project took me five years with the help of 400 volunteers and countless studio assistants. They are the real heroes and they should be totally proud, given the impact and reach of that artwork.

See here my legacy of sociopolitical artworks. Because they can take years to produce they don’t come thick and fast but have been a constant in my practice since art school. All my other work helps to fund these, sometimes difficult to realise, projects.

 

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