Giant placenta installed after two-year knitting project #placentaproject #mymum

In a celebration of birthing, motherhood and the miracle of human life, a team of 20 dedicated women in regional Victoria has been working together to knit a giant placenta.

The local opportunity shop provided 900 stained or damaged t-shirts for the community arts installation.

The t-shirts from the Mawarra Disability Services Op-Shop were then washed and dyed in a spectrum of crimson, pink and purple, and cut and sewn into tubular strips to create the yarn needed to create the artwork.

The knitters worked for two and a half years on sections of the placenta which were eventually joined together to create the 0.7 deep, three-metre wide soft installation, mounted on a steel supportive structure.

Warragul-based community artist Bec Vandyk said the project is a commentary on the silent, often hidden work of women who nurture, feed and sustain human life.

"Often I make artwork that is about motherhood or being female," Ms Vandyk said.

"I definitely have a fascination for things that women do that are hidden.

"Of all of the things that we do that are hidden, this is probably an incredible one."

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