Projects

A Pouch To Put Things In - creative collaboration The WAAS/King's College Dept for Women and Children's Health

Take A Pause – Collaboration with King’s College London

The Women’s Art Activation System (The WAAS) is collaborating with the Women’s Health research group at King’s College London on a project supporting individuals navigating pregnancy after a previous loss or preterm birth.

Artists Sharon Bennett and Sarah Dixon performing listening/shouting

listening/shouting

listening/shouting is a performance-film made for The Baby Makers: Making History.

The project was a National Lottery Heritage Funded project in 2024, with Stroud’s Museum in the Park.

We listened to stories of birth, as told by elder women and women of the global majority in Stroud District. Out of this listening we made a performance response.

Mundanus Bunting

The Farmer Wants A Wife

The WAAS were selected for a Walking the Land residency at the Gingerbread House, Oakbrook Farm, Stroud in November 2024. We presented our work at Stroud’s Museum in the Park in February 2025.

Creative workshops exploring histories of birth in Stroud - thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund

The Baby Makers: Making History 2024

The Baby Makers: Making History – The WAAS and Museum in the Park are partnering to collect histories of birth and reproduction in Stroud, thanks to an award from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

History Bunting: telling a story of reproductive experience in Stroud

The Baby Makers: Making History 2021

The Baby Makers: Making History – creating collective artwork to tell the stories of reproduction and maternity in Stroud. Join us at the Museum in the Park on July 16th to learn more and take part.

Baby Makers 2021

The Baby Makers

The Baby Makers, a series of creative workshops for women in pregnancy, is back for 2023-2024, thanks to a National Lottery Community Fund grant. We look forward to working together and creating material items, wellbeing and support.

Display in the National Gallery

National Gallery Research

The WAAS are conducting ongoing intermittent research at the National Gallery, pursuing our interests in matresecence, pageantry, the unseen and invisible forces and activities in the space.

NOT ON DISPLAY at the National Gallery London - A figure is hiding under a dark cloth by a window.

NOT ON DISPLAY

We are undertaking a self-directed residency at The National Gallery in London supported by an a-n bursary 2022. We began…