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    Monica Sjoo

    Dancing Women, Dancing Stones

    Dancing Women, Dancing Stones

  • About Monica Sjoo


    Monica Sjoo’s painting God Giving Birth has become something of an icon in the feminist art movement. Depicting God as a powerful woman in the process of giving birth, it caused outrage when it was first exhibited in St Ives in 1970. Sjoo is fascinated by the old goddess religions, and images related to this research frequently figure in her paintings.

    Earth is Our Mother
    1984
    Oil on board, 182.5 x 121.5 cm
    Donated by the artist, 1992

    Dancing Women, Dancing Stones
    1993
    Oil on board, 122 x 122 cm
    Donated by the artist, 1992