This competition is a chance for your work to become a permanent part of the Birth Rites Collection. For full details of this exciting opportunity please download the brief/submissions form from http://birthritescollection.org.uk/#/competition/4541214401

The best works submitted will be featured for one month on our website, where the public will be able to vote for the pieces they find most engaging.

Possible issues the art work could explore include; fears and expectations of childbirth; mysticism in the creation of human life; childbirth as social taboo; eroticism and childbearing; the impact of biomedical advances in technology on birth; What is ‘instinctive’ birth in the face of social conditioning; women’s choice, or lack of, in the way they give birth; male attitudes to childbirth; potential dichotomies between woman as mother and worker, or lover, or other roles; attitudes to and/or memories of ones own birth; cultural and/or geographical differences in birthing; the role of the others/outsiders in a birth. These are some ideas from an almost unlimited list.

To submit your work, please download the brief/submission form. The deadline for the receipt of submissions is 1st September 2010. All submissions will be acknowledged.