The Unspeakable Trauma Of Childbirth

``Being raped" is how Liz Darke describes giving birth to her daughter. ``I had no control," she says, ``over what people were doing to my body, despite being fully alert and explaining again and again the kind of treatment that I did and didn't want. I felt I might as well have been a piece of meat."

Tortured Output A Personal Gesture

If discussions about menstrual blood, the gory deaths of the 12 Apostles, failed childbirth or using human body wax for sculpture make you squeamish, do not read on. However, if you relish art that comes with a challenge, go no further than Close To The Bone, a survey show of artist Linde Ivimey at the Heide Museum of Modern Art.