A Bloody Good Thing, an exhibition by the Women From The Inside collective, 28th February – 28th March, Launch Thursday 5th March, FREE
A Bloody Good Thing is a striking body of photography by photographer Clara Planelles and visual artists Clara and Maria McSweeney, who together form the photography collective Women from the Inside, founded by the Arts Council. The work explores menstruation and the many transformations a woman’s body undergoes across a lifetime. Bringing visibility to a subject still shaped by stigma and silence, the exhibition invites audiences to reconsider how menstruation is perceived, reframing it as a natural, powerful, and life-affirming process.
At its heart, the work celebrates menstruation as a moment of renewal and regeneration, the beginning of a new cycle of growth. Featuring twelve real, unedited women, ranging from teenagers to women in their eighties, the exhibition honours bodies of all shapes, sizes, backgrounds and ethnicities. Fruits including grapefruit, pomegranate, plum and cherries are used symbolically to reflect the evolving stages of menstruation throughout life.