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Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 speaking in Paintings<\/em>, a documentary by Jane Jackson, 1977.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 was an unwavering advocate for freedom from oppression in all its forms. Her works were made to be in this world as agents for change – political and spiritual. In this series, The Story of Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6<\/em>, discover how her personal, political and spiritual life intertwined to influence her artistic and activist practice. Read her biography below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6, Our Bodies Ourselves<\/em>, 1978. Courtesy Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 Estate and Alison Jacques, London \u00a9 Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 Estate. Photo: Albin Dahlstr\u00f6m \/ Moderna Museet <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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1938 – Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 is born in H\u00e4rn\u00f6sand, the daughter of Gustav Sj\u00f6\u00f6 and Harriet Rosander, both professional artists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1941 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6\u2019s parents divorce when she is just three years old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1946 – At the age of eight, Sj\u00f6\u00f6 moves to Stockholm with her mother. Her mother\u2019s artistic career is not as successful as her father\u2019s. Sj\u00f6\u00f6\u2019s later approach to art, feminism, and politics is impacted by witnessing her mother\u2019s grief over having to neglect her artistic career because of her dire financial difficulties and her struggles to make time for her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1954 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 reads The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State<\/em> (1884) which comes to influence her immensely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1956 – At the age of sixteen, Sj\u00f6\u00f6 drops out of school and runs away from home. She stays in Gothenburg for a brief period, where she makes a living as a life model for different art schools, including Valand Academy. She soon leaves Sweden and goes to Paris, where she meets her future husband, the Englishman Stevan Trickey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1957 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 moves to Bristol with Trickey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1958 –  The couple spends the first months of the year in St. Ives, Cornwall, where they rent a studio and Sj\u00f6\u00f6 starts painting. In the autumn she becomes pregnant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1959 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 and Stevan Trickey leave Bristol and travel to Sweden. The couple are not registered in England since Trickey is evading National Service. They marry and stay in Sweden until 1961, when they return to Bristol. Sj\u00f6\u00f6 gives birth to her first child, Sean, at a Swedish hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sj\u00f6\u00f6\u2019s experience of medical intervention during labour has a strong impact on her negative view of hospital childbirth, which she later came to process and question in her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1961 –  Sj\u00f6\u00f6 and Trickey\u2019s second son, Toivo, is born. This time it is a home birth, as planned. The experience changes her views on childbirth, female empowerment, and spirituality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sj\u00f6\u00f6 attends classes in sculpture and etching, she paints, and helps Trickey \u2013 who is a silversmith \u2013 make jewellery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1962 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 attends an art course at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) in Bristol<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1963 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 continues attending courses at the RWA. She reads Robert Graves\u2019s book The White Goddess<\/em> (1948).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1964 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 has her first exhibition in Bristol. The exhibition consists primarily of abstract paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is accepted into the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School to study theatre design, where she encounters the plays of Bertolt Brecht, ancient Greek dramas such as Oedipus Rex<\/em>, and the Jacobean tragedy The Duchess of Amalfi<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1965 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6\u2019s mother Harriet Rosander dies in September. Sj\u00f6\u00f6 travels from Bristol to Stockholm with her son Toivo and decides to stay. During this time, Sj\u00f6\u00f6 becomes involved in the anti-Vietnam War movement, organising exhibitions aimed at educating and spreading the word on American imperialism. She also helps raise funds for the National Liberation Front (NLF), among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sj\u00f6\u00f6 reads Alarm Clock<\/em> (1941) by Elin W\u00e4gner, a writer, feminist, and forerunner of the so-called \u2018green wave\u2019 movement of the 1960s (which saw Swedes moving back to a more rural life) and the feminist ecological activism of the 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the autumn, Sj\u00f6\u00f6 meets the Swedish artist Siri Derkert.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1966 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 works briefly as an assistant set designer at Pistolteatern in Stockholm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After several visits to Siri Derkert\u2019s studio on Liding\u00f6, Sj\u00f6\u00f6 starts working as her assistant. Sj\u00f6\u00f6 admires Derkert\u2019s artistic practice and political activism, particularly when it comes to issues of equality and women\u2019s rights. They stay in touch even after their professional relationship ends, exchanging letters up until Derkert\u2019s death in 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She continues to be active in the protest movement against America\u2019s invasion of Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 protesting the Vietnam War, Stockholm, 1966.\nPhotographs from Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6\u2019s personal archive, Courtesy Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 Estate \u00a9\nMonica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 Estate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Sj\u00f6\u00f6 travels to Italy with the anarchists Bengt Ericsson, Ingvar Salomonsson, and Lennart Karlsson to participate in an anarchist conference, but they are arrested and deported by the Italian police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1967 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 has her first solo exhibition at Galleri Karlsson in Stockholm. Her paintings depict naked men, deliberately challenging the dominant male ideal within what Sj\u00f6\u00f6 considers androcentric art history. The motifs are considered improper and had already the year before been retouched in an article for the Swedish magazine Se.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later that year, Sj\u00f6\u00f6 leaves Stockholm and returns to Bristol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1968 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 paints one of her best-known works, God Giving Birth<\/em>. The painting is inspired by her experience of giving birth to her second child at home.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 Good Giving Birth<\/em>, 1968 Museum Anna Nordlander \u00a9 The Estate of Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 Foto\/Photo: Krister H\u00e4gglund<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In England she gets to know several members of the radical group King Mob. Formed in the 1960s by the brothers David and Stuart Wise, the King Mob members called themselves \u2018the gangsters of the new freedom\u2019. They combined sharp politics with Dadaism\u2019s disruptive potential in their confrontational happenings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1969 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6\u2019s father Gustav dies of cancer. She marries the pianist and composer Andrew Jubb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sj\u00f6\u00f6 has a solo exhibition at Arts Lab in Drury Lane, London, where God Giving Birth<\/em> is shown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She paints Past and Present<\/em> while living on Princess Victoria Street in Bristol. Sj\u00f6\u00f6 joins several other women to form Bristol Women\u2019s Liberation Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6, Past and Present<\/em>, 1969. \u00a9 The Estate of Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6. Photo: Albin Dahlstr\u00f6m\/Moderna Museet <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1970 – Gives birth to her third son, Leif.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participates in the first National Women\u2019s Liberation Conference in the UK at Ruskin College in Oxford. Sj\u00f6\u00f6 tries to exhibit six of her paintings in conjunction with the St. Ives Festival, but the works are hastily removed by council officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is invited to give a lecture on abortion rights at a conference in Liverpool. Shortly thereafter she founds the Women\u2019s Abortion and Contraceptive Campaign<\/em> (WACC) in Bristol.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 in her studio in Stockholm, 1966 Photographs from Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6’s private archive \u00a9 The Estate of Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

1970 –  In March the first Women\u2019s Liberation Art Group exhibition is presented at the Woodstock Gallery in London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sj\u00f6\u00f6 and the artist Anne Berg write the Images on Womenpower \u2013 Arts Manifest<\/em>. It raises questions about abstract art and how it is embedded in Western male privilege.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paints Aspects of The Great Mother<\/em> and Cosmos within Her Womb<\/em>, inspired by a Neolithic grave from circa 10,000 years ago. Sj\u00f6\u00f6 portrays the woman as the archetypal mother and a direct link to the origin of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meets the American artist Carolee Schneemann<\/a>. They keep in touch over subsequent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1972 –  Sj\u00f6\u00f6 writes the manifesto Towards a Revolutionary Feminist Art<\/em>, which is rooted in a feminist critique of the Western, male-dominated art world and the lack of women in art history. The manifesto can be seen as a call to women to organise themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She participates in the National Women\u2019s Liberation Conference at Acton Town Hall in London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1973 – The exhibition Images of Womanpower<\/em> opens at the Swiss Cottage Library in Camden Town, London. The participating artists are Anne Berg, Liz Moore, Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6, Beverly Skinner, and Roslyn Smythe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition provokes strong reactions, and a complaint is filed against Sj\u00f6\u00f6\u2019s painting God Giving Birth<\/em>. She is consequently charged with blasphemy and pornography, but the charges are eventually dropped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1974 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 publishes the pamphlet Some Notes on Feminist Art \u2013 Women\u2019s Art, Women Culture Reborn<\/em>. She presents some works in the exhibition Kvinnoliv<\/em> [Women\u2019s Lives] at Lunds Konsthall following an invitation from the Swedish artist Anna Sj\u00f6dahl, who Sj\u00f6\u00f6 met at the Swiss Cottage Library exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1975 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 publishes the pamphlet The Ancient Religion of The Great Cosmic Mother of All<\/em>, which is the first draft of the book that she would later publish with Barbara Mor in 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 at the exhibition Kvinnoliv <\/em>[Womenfolk], Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 1975. Photograph from Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6\u2019s personal archive, Courtesy Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 Estate \u00a9 Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 Estate <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

1976 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 contacts the quarterly magazine WomanSpirit <\/em>and starts corresponding with writer and poet Barbara Mor. She publishes the article The Witches Are Returning<\/em> in Peace News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1977 – The pamphlet The Ancient Religion of The Great Cosmic Mother of All<\/em> is translated into Norwegian and published as a book (Den Store Kosmiske Mor).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jane Jackson produces the short documentary Portrait<\/em> (Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6)<\/em> about the artist and her practice. The documentary is shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, and the London Film Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1978 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 visits the Neolithic monument Silbury Hill in Avebury and has a profound spiritual experience there. After her visit she paints The Goddess at Avebury and Silbury<\/em>. She also visits the Stone Age monuments at Newgrange in Ireland for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6, The Goddess at Avebury and Silbury<\/em>, 1978 Museum Anna Nordlander \u00a9 The Estate of Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6. Photo: Albin Dahlstr\u00f6m\/Moderna Museet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

1980 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 and Anne Berg give a lecture at the first International Festival of Women Artists in Copenhagen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1981 – Publishes the book The Ancient Religion of the Great Cosmic Mother of All<\/em> with American writer and feminist Barbara Mor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participates in a protest march to the airfield RAF Brawdy organised by Welsh Anti-Nuclear Alliance (WANA). To protest the proposed placement of cruise missiles in the area, a group of women stage a march.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Greenham Common protests start on 27 August 1981, when the Women for Life on Earth group embarks on a ten-day march from Cardiff to to Greenham Common air base in Berkshire, a distance of almost 200 kilometres. They set up what has come to be known as the Greenham Common Women\u2019s Peace Camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1982 – The Women for Life on Earth march takes place on 4 June and involves the participation of over five hundred demonstrators walking from Fishguard to U.S. Brawdy\u2019s submarine tracking station. Sj\u00f6\u00f6 is one of the organisers, along with Ann Pettitt.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 depicted on a postcard from the Women for Life on Earth Peace March, 1981. Courtesy Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 Estate \u00a9 Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 Estate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Sj\u00f6\u00f6 travels to Greenham Common Women\u2019s Peace Camp to participate in the protest Embrace the Base. She returns several times in the following two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1984 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 creates several new collages and paints The Earth is Our Mother <\/em>and The Goddess in Her Manifestations at Greenham Common<\/em>, among other works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She completes the manuscript for Spiral Journey<\/em>, a compilation of texts on her travels to sacred sites of the Celtic Britons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1985 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6\u2019s paintings are included in the exhibition Women Artists in Wales<\/em>, which tours across Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August, Sj\u00f6\u00f6 goes on holiday to the Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es with her youngest son, Leif. While there, he is hit by a car. Thirty hours later Leif dies of his injuries, aged fifteen. The sudden death of her son has a profound effect on Sj\u00f6\u00f6, and she enters a state of mourning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly thereafter another tragedy occurs: her eldest son, Sean, is diagnosed with lymphoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1986 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 paints Lament for My Young Son<\/em>, the first of a series of paintings dedicated to her son after his tragic death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1987 – Publishes a further book with Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth<\/em>, which becomes one of Sj\u00f6\u00f6\u2019s best-known works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her son Sean dies of lymphoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1989 – Participates in the exhibition The Goddess Re-emerging<\/em> at the Glastonbury Assembly Rooms along with the artists Jill Smith, Philippa Bowers, and Joanna Corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She reads Marija Gimbutas\u2019s book Language of the Goddess<\/em>, which influences her profoundly. Sj\u00f6\u00f6 makes the acquaintance of poet, writer, and activist Alice Walker, and they become friends shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1990 – Travels to the US again and exhibits at Gaia bookstore in Berkeley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1993 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 completes several important paintings including Meeting the Ancestors at Avebury.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6, Meeting the Ancestors at Avebury<\/em>, 1993. Courtesy Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 Estate and Alison Jacques, London. \u00a9 Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 Estate. Photo by Albin Dahlstr\u00f6m\/Moderna Museet <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

She and other women in the Ama Mawu group (which she co-founded) interrupt a service at Bristol Cathedral. Participates in the group exhibitions Women Made<\/em> at Cooper\u2019s Gallery in Bristol and Women Remember Women in Conflict<\/em> in Liverpool.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6, No title (Ama Mawu)<\/em>, 1993. Courtesy of The Estate of Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6. \u00a9 The Estate of Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

1994 –  The archaeologist and author of The Living Goddesses<\/em>, Marija Gimbutas, dies. Sj\u00f6\u00f6 paints Rites of Passage<\/em> and dedicates it to Gimbutas. Sj\u00f6\u00f6 visits the first international goddess festival in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Museum Anna Nordlander in Skellefte\u00e5 organises a solo exhibition with some thirty of Sj\u00f6\u00f6\u2019s works, including God Giving Birth <\/em>and Cosmos within Her Womb<\/em>. In connection with the exhibition, the museum acquires several of her paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1996. Sj\u00f6\u00f6 visits the Newbury Bypass protest in Berkshire, where eco-activists are \u2018tree-sitting\u2019 to halt the clearing of ancient woodland for a new motorway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She creates several new works, including Mother Earth in Pain, Her Trees Cut Down, Her Sea Polluted.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first goddess conference takes place in Glastonbury Goddess Temple. Several of Sj\u00f6\u00f6\u2019s paintings are installed on the walls of the Assembly Rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1997 –  Sj\u00f6\u00f6 participates in the Sharjah Third International Biennial, United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is diagnosed with breast cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1998 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 participates in the group show Hj\u00e4rtat sitter till v\u00e4nster \u2013 svensk konst<\/em> [The Heart is on the Left: Swedish Art 1964\u20131974] at Gothenburg Museum of Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1999 –  Writes her final book, The Norse Goddess<\/em>, published the following year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2001- Exhibits a selection of her paintings at the Create Centre Gallery in Bristol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6, Ancient Mothers Weaving the World<\/em>, The Norns, 2003 \u00a9 The Estate of Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6. Photo: Albin Dahlstr\u00f6m\/Moderna Museet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After several years of correspondence, Sj\u00f6\u00f6 finally meets the American artist Judy Chicago in Cambridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2002 – Travels to Russia to participate in the group exhibition Windows to Other Worlds<\/em> at Saint Petersburg State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Makes her last trip to the US to attend the Goddess Festival in La Honda, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2003 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6 is diagnosed with secondary bone cancer and her right arm is operated on shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2004 – Sj\u00f6\u00f6\u2019s retrospective Through Time and Space: The Ancient Sisterhoods Spoke to Me <\/em>opens at Hotbath Gallery in Bath. Alice Walker writes the foreword of the exhibition catalogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2005 –  Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6 dies in Bristol on 8 August.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6, No title (Women\u2019s Liberation is People\u2019s Liberation) \u00a9 The Estate of Monica Sj\u00f6\u00f6. Photo: Albin Dahlstr\u00f6m\/Moderna Museet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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