Stories
- Photo story
Beautiful bedding and how to die well
When you are unwell, your bed can be both a refuge and a prison. Discover how artist Poppy Nash created a bed-centred artwork inspired by her own chronic illness and depictions of ill health from history.
- Article
Identifying skin lightening agents in cosmetics
Could your moisturiser be damaging your health? If it contains skin-lightening agents, the answer is yes. But this is an area where consumers definitely do not have the upper hand.
- Article
In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
Catalogue
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Tree of life exhibition : art works in different media based on the beauty of the human heart and its blood supply / edited by Dr Geoffrey Farrer-Brown.
Farrer-Brown, Geoffrey.Date: 2002
- Digital Images
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Menstrual blood, artwork title "Fist"
Beauty in Blood
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Menstrual blood, artwork title "Drippy"
Beauty in Blood
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Menstrual blood, artwork title "Unfolding"
Beauty in Blood
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Menstrual blood, artwork title "Bursting Through"
Beauty in Blood