Bristol Mono Print Exhibition

Women and girls have been subjected to torture in their homes and other private places for eons.

In 2010, I looked at the UK Government’s 2010 Call to End Violence Against Women and Girls Action Plan and I saw that it didn’t name torture.

In November 2010 I joined a mono printing art workshop held at Bristol Rape Crisis. A group of women, including me, met together to create mono prints for an art exhibition to be held in the foyer of Bristol Council House in recognition of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls and 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence ending with Human Rights Day on December 10th.

In the Foyer art exhibition I included some of my ink mono prints. I also wrote a short piece on non-State torture for the zine we produced to go with the exhibition.

These mono prints were a series of nine prints including one I named Rabbit in the Woods. Through making these prints in 2010, I was able to begin telling what had happened in the woods at night when I was a young child. Deeper Kindness was the title of the zine that included my writing on non-State torture.