Pain Pageant

2023

Mixed media textiles

Pain Pageant was a solo show at Mannningham Art Gallery using drawing, photography and conceptual fashion to explore the social taboos around endometriosis. It utilised metaphors described by research with patients; stabbing, biting and burning, to convey sensations, while tapping into Coldrey’s lived experience of expectations around how pain is performed and presented in societal contexts.

This series was developed with the generous support of the Australian French Association of Innovation and Research.

Gallery images courtesy of Arts Manningham, photography by Charlie Kinross.