Selected Works — Bee Hughes

Cycles (2016-2017)

individual bodyprints on six hand-stitched linen scrolls
each scroll is 0.2m x 3m
(installation dimensions vary)

Almost Eight Cycles (2018)

installation of 242 digital prints exhibited at Periodical
Atrium Gallery, Liverpool School of Art & Design, as part of Being Human festival of the humanities, November 2018

Periodical Exhibition

curated by Bee Hughes as part of Being Human festival of the humanities, November 2018.

Photographed works:
Poloumi Basu - A Ritual of Exile
Amanda Atkinson - £306
Bee Hughes - Almost Eight Cycles
Natalie Denny - The Bloody Bard [poem]
selected objects from LJMU Special Collections & Archives

Periodical Exhibition

examples of UK advertising of menstrual products 1960s - 1990s, courtesy of the Femorabilia Collection, LJMU Special Collections & Archives.

exhibition curated by Bee Hughes as part of Being Human festival of the humanities, November 2018.

a period is (ii) (2018)

custom vinyl installation of permutated cut up poem, Periodical at Atrium Gallery, Liverpool School of Art & Design as part of Being Human festival of the humanities, November 2018

untitled performance (2016)

untitled performance documentation
photography by Milos Simpraga

untitled performance ii (2016)

untitled performance documentation
photography by Milos Simpraga

Lifetime Supply (2017 - )

This ongoing performance project aims to create a lifetime supply of (completely unusable) tampons from clay.

Menstrual Quilt (2018 - )

Collaborative particpatory craft project with Period Project Merseyside and exhibition visitors. Participants decorate donated menstrual products that Period Project Merseyside are unable to pass on in their menstrual support packs for hygiene reasons. We encourage the discussion of menstruation in an open and inclusive environment to produce this collaborative work which addresses menstrual stigma from different intersecting perspectives.

Black Hole (detail) (2017)

Performance resulting in cut-up poetry body print

Dys-men-o-rrho-ea (2019)

performance documentation, digital photographs
with thanks to Milos Simpraga

a private performance aiming to make visible the physical and emotional discomfort, pain, and dislocation created by severe period-related pain. The performances produce a number of artefacts in the form of body prints on paper which contain fragmented medical texts and are documented in video, with a series of photographs taken at the session.